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FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
* 50 shades of a gay *
3, 184, 373 views | iO Tillett Wright | TEDxWomen 2012 • December 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight.
IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? How accurate is your “gaydar”? A lot of thk we know all about gay men—where they live, how they drs, how they rry themselv—as though beg gay means a uniform way of beg the world.
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FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
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