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tells you that she’s pregnant?

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

Or this straight couple

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& you can’t hear the dialogue
Cause of the sound effects.

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

And the woman in your office

Spends your entire lunch hour
talking about her new bikini drawers
& how much her husband likes them.
BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

Or the “hip” chick in your class,
rattling a mile a-minute -

while your’re trying to get stoned
in the john

about the camping trip she took
with her musician boyfriend.

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

You go in a public bathroom

And all over the walls

there’s John loves Mary,

Janice digs Richard,

Pepe loves Delores, etc. etc.

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

Or you go to an amusement park
& there’s a tunnel of love

& pictures of straights

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& grinning couples

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BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

Fact is, blatant heterosexuals
are all over the place.
Supermarkets, movies, on your job,
in church, in books, on television
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even in gay bars.

& they want gay men & women

to go hide in the closets-

So to you straight folks

i say - Sure, i’ll go

if you go too,

but i’m polite

so - after you.

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