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e6fa27f
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"We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?"
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friendly
magnus-bane
gay
dating
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Cassandra Clare |
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ae9d501
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"You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better."
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simon-lewis
gay
fashion
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Cassandra Clare |
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9b6352a
|
Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.' 'You noticed' said Simon. 'I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' added Magnus. 'Please never say those words in front of my parents,' said Alec. 'Especially my father.' 'I thought your parents were okay with you, you know, coming out,' Simon said, leaning around Isabelle to look at Alec, who was -- as he often was -- scowling, and pushing his floppy dark hair out of his eyes. Aside from the occasional exchange, Simon had never talked to Alec much. He wasn't an easy person to get to know. But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec's answer than he would have been otherwise. 'My mother seems to have accepted it,' Alec said. 'But my father -- no, not really. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.' Simon felt Isabelle tense next to him. 'Turned you gay?' She sounded incredulous. 'Alec, you didn't tell me that.' 'I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,' said Simon. Magnus snorted; Isabelle looked confused. 'I've read Magnus's stash of comics,' said Alec, 'so I actually know what you're talking about' A small smile played around his mouth. 'So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?' 'Only if it was a really gay spider,' said Magnus, and he yelled as Alec punched him in the arm. 'Ow, okay, never mind.
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coming-out
gay-spider
city-of-lost-souls
isabelle-lightwood
magnus-bane
simon-lewis
homosexuality
gay
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Cassandra Clare |
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5e85d69
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"Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire."
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pamphlet
gay
vampire
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Cassandra Clare |
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1a694d7
|
"Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much." "Dick. That's not what you said last night." "Bite me."
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morganville-vampires
gay
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Rachel Caine |
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04cbc8d
|
"Iz," Alec said tiredly. "It's not like it's one big bad thing. It's a lot of little invisible things. When Magnus and I were traveling, and I'd call from the road, Dad never asked how he was. When I get up to talk in Clave meetings, no one listens, and I don't know if that's because I'm young or if it's because of something else. I saw Mom talking to a friend about her grandchildren and the second I walked into the room they shut up. Irina Cartwright told me it was a pity no one would ever inherit my blue eyes now." He shrugged and looked toward Magnus, who took a hand off the wheel for a moment to place it on Alec's. "It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's a million little paper cuts every day."
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magnus-bane
gay
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Cassandra Clare |
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9cb3acf
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"Isabelle snorted, "All the boys gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "You noticed," said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec."
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funny
humor
bisexual
city-of-lost-souls
isabelle-lightwood
magnus-bane
simon-lewis
mortal-instruments
cassandra-clare
gay
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Cassandra Clare |
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da980fd
|
"Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need o have another talk about your people skills." "Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble." Will turned to me. "I apologize for my boyfriend." Nico rolled his eyes. "Could you not--" "Would you prefer special guy?" Will asked. "Or significant other?" "Significant annoyance, in your case," Nico grumbled"
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romance
humor
lgbt
gay
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Rick Riordan |
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482d4d5
|
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
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relationships
romance
life
love
platonic-love
gay
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David Levithan |
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64f4ed3
|
"Isabelle snorted. "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you , Simon." "You noticed." said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec. "Especially my father."
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tmi-series
malec
gay
|
Cassandra Clare |
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2d3af33
|
"Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay." "I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon."
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spiderman
gayness
lgbtq
isabelle-lightwood
magnus-bane
simon-lewis
references
gay
|
Cassandra Clare |
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2d7b2ab
|
Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
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woman
virginia-woolf
gay
|
Virginia Woolf |
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75ee10d
|
Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach's heartbeat throbbing between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled beneath the surface. The head was as smooth as satin, as rose petals. Trevor rubbed his thumb across it, squeezed gently, heard Zack suck air in through his teeth and moan as he let it out. He could see blood suffusing the tissue just beneath the translucent skin, a deep dusky rose delicately purpled at the edges, crowned with a single dewy pearl of come. It was as intimate, as raw as holding someone's heart in his hands.
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lovers
lgbtq
gay
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Poppy Z. Brite |
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71e38eb
|
"Edward: "Wait--you were trying to on me?" Susan: "Damn straight." Edward: "The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean."
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straight
gay
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Jodi Picoult |
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d2d86b7
|
We're happier when the assholes are villains.
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gay
villains
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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1a815fe
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Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay. Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.
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funny
letter
gay
teenagers
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Daniel Clowes |
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baa5546
|
"Creed scowls. "Hardly. All he does now is mope like a goddamn teenage girl. Anytime I'm home, he's in his room with the door locked. I'm telling you guys, he got worked over really bad in San Diego. I thought the whole point of having a gay brother was that they were supposed to be all cool and shit. I got a defective gay."
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romance
lgbtqia
creed
otter
m-m
gay
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T.J. Klune |
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0499241
|
Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. They don't want to know about my feelings or my glands or anything below my neck. I could just as well be a severed head carried into the classroom to lecture to them from a dish.
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|
gay
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Christopher Isherwood |
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4e229ca
|
So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul (his words, not mine), I silently panicked and wrote lines of bad poetry. Normally, I am quite adept at writing poems and lyrics to songs I'l never sing, but this stuff was just atrocious. For example: I love you You love me Thank God for that I'm so happy And Ty's personal favorite (which he helped me on): Otter! Otter! Otter! Don't lead cows to slaughter I love you and I know I should've told you soon-a But you didn't buy the dolphin-safe tuna! TY asked me if I got the hidden message in his poem. I told him it was loud and clear.
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|
romance
funny
animal-rights
gay
child
|
T.J. Klune |
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818344e
|
"He hesitates, then says, "You don't think Otter... gets offended by what I say?" He begins to speak faster. "I mean, I don't care who Otter sleeps with. I don't care that he's a fa- gay. I don't care that he's gay. Why would I ?" He grins thinly. "He's my brother. You don't turn away from someone like him just because he likes sick instead if the good stuff."
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|
romance
otter
m-m
lgbt
gay
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T.J. Klune |
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b5baf5a
|
You want to go out to dinner sometime? Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.
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dinner
lizards
gay
dead
|
Warren Ellis |
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fc82966
|
It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know, know anything for certain, had jammed itself in her throat for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe.
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|
love
carol-aird
therese
therese-belivet
lesbian
lgbt
gay
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Patricia Highsmith |
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f162388
|
I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E.M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, John Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjold... These are not invisible men. Poor Bruce. Poor frightened Bruce. Once upon a time you wanted to be a soldier. Bruce, did you know that an openly gay Englishman was as responsible as any man for winning the Second World War? His name was Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans' Enigma code so the Allies knew in advance what the Nazis were going to do -- and when the war was over he committed suicide he was so hounded for being gay. Why don't they teach any of this in the schools? If they did, maybe he wouldn't have killed himself and maybe you wouldn't be so terrified of who you are. The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all through history we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organize ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed. That's how I want to be defined: as one of the men who fought the war.
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equality
relationships
love
lgbtq
homosexual
medicine
gay
epidemic
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Larry Kramer |
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215e069
|
A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.
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|
success
gay
questions
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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3ca0c81
|
Art is long and life is short.
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|
life
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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1601d7d
|
We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It's why you still see half-read copies of on the night tables of otherwise intelligent gay men.)
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|
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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37e600f
|
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.
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old
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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38cfffe
|
I'm thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we're free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy each other ... you and me.
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|
gay-romance
glbt-romance
post-apocalyptic
erotic-romance
dystopian-fiction
gay
survival-story
|
Leslie Lee Sanders |
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81b858f
|
Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.
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|
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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099414d
|
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
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second-rate
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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97b4447
|
Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.
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|
winnie-the-pooh
gay
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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3d7d90c
|
An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.
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|
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
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678ad7a
|
Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.
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|
gay
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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c93507f
|
"A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people."
|
|
edmund-white
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
|
0cb617c
|
"Get your sticky fingers away from my cookies," Ben ordered, without turning his head, to see Jaxton trying to steal one from the cooking tray. "You weren't saying that last night," Jaxton retaliated, coming up to Ben's side, to give him a nudge. They were both smiling, while looking down at the counter, where Ben was making his delicious rosemary cookies. "In fact, I seem to remember you grabbing my sticky fingers and putting them in your mouth," he teased, speaking quietly, so that Lyon wouldn't hear them at the other side of the room. Ben turned to Jaxton and abandoned his baking, to catch his face in flour covered hands and plant a deep kiss on his lips. Jaxton opened his mouth, in acceptance of his kiss. ~ From the Heart"
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|
romance
relationship
music
friendship
love
cello
mm
notes
lgbt
gay
novel
short-stories
|
Elaine White |
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9816d45
|
I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.
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|
lgbt
gay
|
Michael Thomas Ford |
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2ad21a4
|
No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent homes and can be macho and women-hating, misguided assumptions about what makes a male gay still flourish. Every day boys who express feelings are psychologically terrorized, and in extreme cases brutally beaten, by parents who fear that a man of feeling must be homosexual. Gay men share with straight men the same notions about acceptable masculinity.
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|
violence
feminism
feelings
feminist
emotional-men
feelings-and-emotions
gay-teens
gay-men
emotions
masculinity
gay
|
bell hooks |
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61ac44b
|
We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.
|
|
women
stonewall
gay
|
Ann Bausum |
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cb4707e
|
I'm not sure what form I expected the threat to take; a police car actually stopping outside, a powerfully built black man darting up the drive? I had several dreams of siege, in which the house became a frail slatted box, shadowy and exquisite within, the walls all cracked and bleached louvres which fell to powder as one brushed against them. In one dream Arthur and I were there, and others, old school friends, a gaggle of black kids from the Shaft, my grandfather tearful and hopeless. We knew we had no chance of surviving the violence that surrounded us, closing in fast, and I was gripped by a nauseating terror. I woke up in the certain knowledge that I was about to die: the bedsprings were ticking from the sprinting vehemence of my heartbeat. I didn't dare go back to sleep and after a while sat up and read, while Arthur slept deeply beside me. It took days to lose the mood of the dream, and its power to prickle my scalp. The neighbourhood seemed eerily impregnated with it, and its passing made possible a new confidence, as if a sentence had been lifted.
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|
sleep
murder
gay
|
Alan Hollinghurst |
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496fa0e
|
Outside, beyond where the light from our window fell, there was a deep inner well. The roof in which these rooms were built dropped steeply away, and facing us across the void were other similar dormers, unlit, their windows open into shadowy stillness. Above the roofline the sky was amorously transformed by the pink glare of the London dusk.
|
|
dusk
gay
london
city
|
Alan Hollinghurst |
|
fc61c08
|
There is a thumping silence, and the light of the one lamp across the wet tiled floor seems conscious that it will illuminate this and many other atrocities, just as it will go on shining through days and months of sudden speechless lusts, and all the intervening hours of silent emptiness.
|
|
bathroom
lamp
gay
police
|
Alan Hollinghurst |
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0e2b81c
|
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
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|
other
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |
|
4a94181
|
Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?
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|
gay
writers
|
Christopher Bram |