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Let’s not make Ma say “gay rights!”

Let’s not make Ma say “gay rights!”

In which I get bored in Ma’s basement, rediscover a tale as old as time, and commend Karen Huger’s transition to introvert.

Louis Peitzman
Jun 04, 2019
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When Gay Twitter decides to stan a movie before it’s out, based solely on a trailer or the presence of Octavia Spencer, I get a little nervous. I went into Ma wondering, memes aside, if the film would be gay or queer — a distinction I can explain best in terms of The Babadook, which is not gay but is queer, and now has special edition Pride Month packag…

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