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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Sex
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Imprecise
Persons
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Homosexual

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