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Gaga’s Telephone and other lesbian euphemisms

By Lina Harper • March 11, 2010 7:36 pm EDT

I did my homework.

Dancing in the prison hallway in studded panties.
Butch prison guards strip her down looking for Gaga’s dick, then one of them trolls for sex on Plenty of Fish
Beyoncé in the car with a snack: lesbians do everything in their cars.
Don’t the car scenes remind you of Death Proof or lesbian exploitation films?
Fatalistic, devoted to each other & dedicated to the dream
Pussy Wagon!

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