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To Barcelona with a gay in your ear

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They, like, LOVE love poetry

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Con I get a witness?

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Let them eat cake and french fry pizza

Why aren’t there more queer cookbooks?

February 8, 2009
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Not the best of 2008

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Michelle Tea’s intense occupation

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Shortbus at Toronto International Film Festival

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Battle him of the republic
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Battle him of the republic

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