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Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
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Daniel Keenan Savage
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