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Bill

You do realize by ‘gay’ I mean a man who has sex with other men?

— NewsRadio ‧ 1995

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker checks that someone understands how they are using the word gay, explicitly referring to a man who has sex with other men. This is a clarification of the speaker’s intended meaning, not a complete definition of identity.

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