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Contents:
- I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
- MAN NVICTED OF RAPG WOMAN WHO HE ALLEGEDLY BEIEND BY PRETENDG TO BE GAY
I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
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MAN NVICTED OF RAPG WOMAN WHO HE ALLEGEDLY BEIEND BY PRETENDG TO BE GAY
"Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience.
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"In a predomately heterosexual society, 'know thyself' n be a challenge for many gay dividuals, " lead thor Netta Weste, a lecturer at the Universy of Essex the Uned Kgdom, said a statement.