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looks pretty young in those pictures, like 8~9 years

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先放上来，回头翻译。

Obama pledges support for gay families

The presumptive Democratic party nominee for President of the United States has pledged to work towards the elimination of discrimination against LGBT families if elected.

Barack Obama was responding to a letter from Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council.

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain said in an interview with the New York Times last month that he does not believe gay people should adopt children.

In response the FEC wrote to both candidates asking them to outline their plans to "recognise, respect, protect and celebrate all of the loving families [they] seek to represent."

Senator McCain has so far failed to respond, but Senator Obama said: "I’ll be a President that stands up for American families – all of them."

"The desire to build a life with a loved one, to provide for a family and to have children who will grow and thrive — these are desires that all people share, regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity," he wrote.

"My own experience has taught me this lesson well. I was born to a single mother, my devoted grandparents helped raise me, and then I married the woman of my dreams and had two beautiful daughters.

"The love that has blessed each of those households has been strong and sure, and I know that millions of families across this nation share the same blessings.

"We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families.

"Because equality in relationship, family, and adoption rights is not some abstract principle; it’s about whether millions of LGBT Americans can finally live lives marked by dignity and freedom."

Senator Obama listed more funding for after-school programmes, the abolition of the federal ban on same-sex marriage, an end to discrimination against LGBT families and "equal treatment in our family and adoption laws" as goals for his administration.

The FEC praised the candidate and pointed out that according to the 2000 census, more than 75% of American households "differ from the paradigm of a married, heterosexual couple raising their biological children."

Ms Chrisler stated in her letter to the candidates:

"Thirty-seven percent of parent households with children in the home are not headed by married,
heterosexual couples.

"Since 1940, grandparents have been the primary caregivers (without biological parents in the home) for approximately 2 percent of all children in this country, some 1.6 million children today.

"Forty percent of all children will likely be raised by unmarried partners living together for a portion of their lives.

"Lesbian and gay parents are raising four percent of all adopted children in the United States, as well as three percent of all children in foster care.

"Until grandmothers and grandfathers can easily access the government benefits intended to keep their grandchildren healthy and safe; until lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents can have their relationships universally and unquestionably recognised; until unmarried parents can access benefits without penalty or derision, we will not be doing justice by the millions of American families that do not fit a small minority's notion of what a"real" family is.”

Senator McCain’s comments about gay adoption were seized upon by LGBT rights advocates as evidence that he is hostile to their community.

Jody M Huckaby, executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said:

"We are disappointed and saddened that a public leader who is himself an adoptive father would deny the children in America’s foster care system the opportunity to thrive as part of a welcoming family.

"Love makes a family, but short-sighted positions like Senator McCain’s can certainly tear families apart, too.

"In a country where more than 125,000 children are waiting for foster parents, Senator McCain would deny loving homes to children who desperately need them simply because of an outdated prejudice about what a family may look like.”

In the wake of such criticism after his New York Times interview last month, the McCain campaign’s Director of Communications, Jill Hazelbaker, made the following clarification:

"McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue, just as he made it clear in the interview that marriage is a state issue.

"He was not endorsing any federal legislation.

"McCain’s expressed his personal preference for children to be raised by a mother and a father wherever possible.

"However, as an adoptive father himself, McCain believes children deserve loving and caring home environments, and he recognises that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes.

"McCain believes that in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative."

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By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • August 4, 2008 - 17:47

The executions were carried out on Sunday 27th July

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The European Union has condemned in the "strongest terms" the execution of 29 people at a notorious prison in Tehran last month.

The mass hangings, at Evin prison in the Sa'adat Abad suburb, were given prominent coverage in the Iranian press.

The country's state broadcaster IRIB even broadcast interviews with ten of the condemned men in which they said they deserved to be killed for their crimes, which reportedly included rape, murder and "disrupting public security and peace."

"The 29 who were executed were involved in the smuggling of narcotics on a wide scale, organised crime, murder and armed robbery," said Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.

The executions, which were carried out on Sunday 27th July, bring the total number in 2008 to more than 150.

The EU said in a statement:

"The Iranian regime's action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity.

"The European Union remains convinced that capital punishment cannot form the basis of a fair and effective prosecution policy: the dissuasive effect of this penalty has never been proved and any judicial error is irreversible.

"The European Union is deeply concerned by the increasing recourse to the death penalty in Iran in recent months.

"It urges the Iranian authorities to put an end to death sentences and executions, to establish a moratorium with a view to abolishing the death penalty in accordance with the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and to respect international human rights standards for all Iranians."

In 2005 Iran sparked international outrage when it publicly executed two teenage boys.
2005年伊朗当局由于处决了两个青少年，而引起了国际社会的强烈谴责。

Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were hanged because according to the regime they were rapists, however gay campaigners insist the boys were killed under Sharia law for the crime of homosexuality.
Mahmoud Asgari 和 Ayaz Marhoni 被执行绞刑的理由，伊朗当局声称他们是强奸犯，实际上同性权益组织坚持说他们实际上是因为触犯了当局的有关同性行为有罪的条文。

At first it was claimed by Iranian officials that they were aged 18 and 19.
伊朗当局屈于国际社会的压力，声称他们是在18岁和19岁的时候被处决的。

The best evidence is that both youths were aged 17 when they were executed and therefore minors, aged 15 or 16, at the time of their alleged crimes.
最有力的证据是两个男孩实际上是在17岁的时候被处决的，因此，他们实际上宣布他们有罪实在他们15或者16岁的时候。

Iranian human rights campaigners estimate that 4,000 gay men have been executed since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
伊朗人权斗争组织估计自1979年伊斯兰大革命以来，共有大约4000男性同性恋者被杀害。

Under Sharia law gay sex illegal, with penalty of death for offenders as young as 14 years old.
根据伊斯兰教教法，同性性行为是非法的，被处决者的最小年龄是14岁。

"Within the structure of many penal codes (in Iran) sodomy laws are grouped together with rape, sexual assault, incest and sexual abuse of children thereby conflating crimes of sexual violence with acts of non-procreative sex," according to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Earlier this year it was reported that the Iranian authorities are considering extending the use of the death penalty to corruption, prostitution and renouncing Islam, or apostasy, on the internet.

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I can't stop watching this video. I tear up every time.

Omg I Just Watched It

It Made My Eyes Fill Up It Was Sad But Happy x

It Was Really Emotional

I Want A Lion They Are So Cute And Lok Realy Cuddly

That is really cute and sweet. I cant believe how he remembered you after all those years.

Amazing and heart warming. The humans needs to learn from these wild(?) animals.

man this is so touching it made me all teary, i love it. this is so amazing

omg that was so powerful and dheart warming <

thats the sweetest thing ever..
i want a lion


amazing video. Great message. These two guys rock

Read on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWtRYaxmWM

[ 本帖最后由 xblues 于 5-8-2008 00:24 编辑 ]

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×Hugs×, Maomao don't cry...

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Am I a sentimentalist? I happened watch quite a few gay movies lately. I often found myself  reduced to tears.  Just now, I watched Latter Days (2003), not so new, but still such a touching story. I wonder what those straight people would feel when they watch these gay movies? Would they care as much as I do? Well, I do watch straight movies.

I guess my personal life is okay, nothing too big, nothing too small, just one ordinary day after another. Gay became a quite private part of my whole life. Without all these touching stories, I almost thought I was actually as normal as the other straight guys. Well, basically I haven't been talking aloud about gay sex encounters, I never wear t-shirt says I am GAY... I defiantly haven't found anyone to get married with. Again, I left my family three years ago, the good thing about been away thousand miles from my parents is that I don't ever have to listen to them keep pushing my find myself a nice girl.

So I guess it's no big deal being gay, besides I can go to gay bars, I can download gay pornos if I am horny, I can surf gay online dating sites if I try to meet someone....:mad: What a wonderful gay life that I am having? Except there's nothing really about being gay.

How the major community taking this idea of someone to be gay? I really don't know. All I know is I still haven't told my family that I am gay yet. I haven't been fully out of the closet either, and I definitely feel devastated of being single since forever, cause I was never able to meet someone in love with. However, this is only my situation, and I believer it could been much better if I were a "normal" "straight" guy.



Link for those "hate" reviews,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345551/usercomments?filter=hate
Comparing to these reviews, I guess I am too sentimental and gay in this case, cause I loved this movie. :p

http://www.56.com/n_v48_/c33_/3_/16_/ldj35686_/zhajm_121223862169x_/6467000_/0_/36170888.swf

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这是一种只有成熟的人才有的睿智，我绝对赞同。
http://www.56.com/n_v41_/c38_/29_/23_/qafbeijing_/zhajm_121600829376_/606000_/0_/36605048.swf


再看同一系列节目的另外一集，采访中国同志。感觉上面那一对伴侣是生活在现代，而下面这些人是从八十年代走出来做视频的。在国外已经积极讨论同志婚姻，平等权利，或者已经不把同志当成什么特别的现象对待的同时，看国内的现状，我真不知道是是感觉可笑，还是可悲。不看了，眼不见心静。移民吧，人生苦短，没必要在这里为了这些无谓的争论浪费生命。而这也不仅仅是指同志了，就先刚刚开化一样，有多少其他的事情又不也都如此呢？我要是邓亚萍，我也把孩子生在国外。打一个比方，要是寝室里有人不洗脚，还说脚有味道正常，大多数同住的人都觉得也没必要大惊小怪。你说我是争论呢？还是转身走出去呢？我觉得还是一走了之省心省事省时间。
http://www.56.com/n_v41_/c38_/25_/24_/qafbeijing_/zhajm_121600797780_/596000_/0_/36604777.swf

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http://so.56.com/index?type=vide ... 0%CA%DC%D6%AE%C7%E9

或者直接到 www.56.com 搜索关键字 “生命中不能承受之情”

56视频的搜索做的够差的。

这个算是正剧了，猫猫看之前做好准备，洗澡，静下心慢慢看。否则看不进去，会感觉沉闷。
这是一部少有的好电影，所以一定耐心看，不要快进！小心浪费了一部欣赏好电影的机会。

[ 本帖最后由 xblues 于 31-7-2008 10:48 编辑 ]

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NO, I haven't been full recovered from those wounds, but I do learned how to protect myself and I try to make myself stronger. So everyone would think about it before they try to insult me.
However, because they have done, I did hate those people, and still the hate exists somewhere there inside of me. I can't help. It guess it's also a way for us to learn how to forgive.

I often think people are just such nonsense and ignorance when they trying to pick up something on someone, and that makes me mad! I am not that "girl" anymore, I am a lot more masculine (only because I feel that's the way I want to be). But ignorance and discrimination exists everywhere, could be upon anything.

I realized how the gay community isolate themselves from the major community. Although we have gay pride, still there are so much for us to face and work hard to win the equal rights. I don't really agree that they gays should appreciate the acceptance of the major society and keep it low-key. In fact, a lot of people say they accept gay....... they actually never finish that sentence. They accept gay conditionally, with lots of conditions.

Something happened to me lately which gave me the chance to know how they accept gay. I think gay have to not only live comfort as who they are, but also live everyday as the gay pride. Nothing comes easy, one have to fight for what one can get, I mean the equal rights.

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我想宣传上这部电影是以一部搞笑喜剧片来宣传的，看到一半的时候，我就开始流泪，哭着笑，笑着哭的看完了下半部分。
原来这部影片总从我眼皮底下划过，我想类似的题材不会吸引我：没有大牌明星，Steve Carell也不帅，乱糟糟个个有毛病的一家人去陪小女孩去参加加州儿童选美比赛的故事。

偶然从电视上播放，我随便看看，15分钟以后，我意识到我差点错过了一部极好的片子！
任何一部看似简单的片子，要想好好的制作，剧本是需要深思熟虑的，我想这个片子的剧本经过了编剧的极力推敲。
荒诞却合理，幽默却深刻，轻松却不肤浅。

一家子人，每个人都有自己的烦心事。女主角是一个妈妈，首先妈妈的哥哥作为一个自杀未遂的同性恋者（因为恋人跟同事跑了，自己又被解雇，事业无成），被接到了家中，妈妈要儿子------一个崇拜尼采，有点自闭症的男孩来照顾这个叔叔。儿子的梦想是当一个飞行员，却不幸患有色盲，为了达成愿望，励志不说话，专门用一个本子写字和家人交流。妈妈的丈夫是一个失败的成功学理论推销者，却已经和妈妈离婚，还极力为家里的事情奔波。爷爷是一个被养老院开出的老花棍，老不正经，整天想着泡女人，和毒品。最正常的小女儿却对选美比赛着了迷，自己本身是一个小胖子，还戴一副大眼睛，却立志要当加州小姐。这样一家子开着一辆破车上路了！去陪小女儿参加选美！

接下来的你自己去看吧，推荐妈妈们去看这个片子，你会喜欢的。也推荐不是妈妈的其他人去看，不看的话会错过一堂很好的关于人生的课！

表面看这一家子都是Loser，不得不去面对梦想失败的挫折，但是他们每个人面对失败和对生活的热爱却深深的打动着我。不是每个人都天生丽质，也不是每个人都生下来就嘴里含一个金钥匙，更不是每个人都拥有实现理想所需要的品质和才能。我想这个世界本身就是不公平的。重要的是，每个人如何去面对自己的梦想，去面对困难和挫折，去接受失败，而仍然有勇气去微笑着生活！

爷爷因为吸毒过量死在了路上，爷爷吸毒而亡，死以前和小姑娘说的话：
　　姑娘：爷爷，我不想当个loser。
　　爷爷：你不是个loser！为什么你会觉得自己是个loser？
　　姑娘：因为爸爸讨厌oser。
　　爷爷：喔喔喔，等一下，你知道什么是loser？一个真正的loser是那些怕失败怕的要死，所以连尝试不敢常试的人。

当影片的最后，小姑娘跳起爷爷教得脱衣舞的时候，我才感觉看似玩世不恭的爷爷才是这个影片极力宣扬的这个理论的得道者！
你去看吧，我是含着眼泪，哭着看完的这部喜剧。

觉得我的影评写的不好，可以去豆瓣网看其他人的更精彩的影评
http://www.douban.com/subject/1777612/?i=0



56网视频
http://www.56.com/n_v155_/c29_/5_/9_/leledegongzhu_/sc_119660673952_/6154000_/0_/24247237.swf

[ 本帖最后由 xblues 于 26-7-2008 17:57 编辑 ]

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IMDB  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152282/

You can find the whole movie on Youtube at
http://www.youtube.com/results?s ... eng+Siam&page=1
However, the qualify would be much better if you could find the DVD.

Well, this actually was the second movie I saw also from Thailand. Incredibly well made. Again, both actors are young, sweet and cute. But you know this isn't the ONLY reason why I liked this movie. It's basically about two young boy's first love.... It's a bit long, however, I don't mind it at all!

I would say the script is much better written compare to Bangkok Love Story. Although I still quite convinced by the way how the director of BLS shooting the movie, all scenes are just insanely beautiful in that movie. TLOS is rather focus on telling you a whole story.

The most memorable scene would be watching these two boys kissing.... before that, the director have put enough efforts for preparation... So kind of this kissing was long waited. I was so eager and excited to see these two boys finally kissed... The story was so well written, so nature, it doesn't matter you are gay or straight, you will enjoy this love story!

I have never watched any Thai movies before, but I think I will have to keep an eye on movies from Thailand after this.








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Just some general commentary as a U.S. viewer watching this movie: It's beautifully directed. I can't comment much on the writing, but as a gay viewer in particular, I really appreciate that the script interweaves two stories: coming out and the coherence of family in a time of grief. The reason I appreciate this is that, even in the U.S., when movies deal with homosexuality, it is generally treated as a singular issue that is separate and distinct from all others. In reality it is one part of the fabric of family and love that comprises everyone's life. Without this key insight, I think the movie would deal with the issue in too patronizing or shallow a manner, as many gay-themed movies do.

Prior to watching I was acutely aware of the commentary that the movie is overlong and not focused enough. There is some truth to this; it is a very long movie for its subject matter. But I think the movie's main strength is in its characters and central subject matter. With too much editing, I could easily see how the core of the movie would be lost. For me personally I was glad the director erred in favor of too much immersion in the interplay between his characters.

As to acting -- clearly I don't speak or understand Thai. But I think some things are universal, like the mother's strength and resolve in times of crisis. And of course Mew's smile. The connection is there.

I loved the movie and I hope it finds its way to broader distribution. If nothing else, the soundtrack should -- it's truly great.

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现在在上海，整天疲劳的要死，就不拍了，传上来怕破坏我苦心经营的光辉虫象，真人照就免了。
不过，等我去了澳洲，退一层皮以后，也保不准拍一系列写真。

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love never equals marriage.  When love becomes marriage, love passes away.
Love means "die" young.

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莫小贝也喜欢

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http://www.youtube.com/v/OfEsKh--uOc

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The Gay Pride Top Twenty (Part Four)
Posted by Andrew Osborne

MALA NOCHE (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/v/jjzmk4kPkqo&hl=en

"You drive like you ****!" Walt (Tim Streeter) yells at Pepper (Ray Monge), the Mexican boy toy who has accepted Walt's offer of driving lessons, with the result that Walt's car is resting in a ditch. Walt is actually in love -- painfully, head over heels in love -- with the pretty boy Johnny (Doug Cooyeate), who doesn't mind putting up with his adulation so long as it gets him handouts, but has no intention of letting Walt touch him, so Walt, in a spirit of compromise that is familiar to inhabitants of the independent filmmaking scene, makes do with Johnny's friend, the scruffier Ray, and takes what satisfaction he can in being one degree of separation away from his obscure object of desire. This grungy erotic fever dream of a first feature by Gus Van Sant was made for $2500.00; hard to see for most of the years before it came out on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection last fall, it was one of the most exciting directorial debuts of the 1980s and announced Portland's placement on the indie film map.

ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES (1992)



When Hudson died of AIDS in 1985 while still trying to remain in the closet, a number of people felt that he had missed his last chance to make his stand against the homophobes. This hilarious illustrated lecture by the experimental filmmaker Mark Rappaport argues that Rock was trying to tell us something all along; you just had to know how to listen. Rock, represented by actor Eric Farr, walks us through a series of clips from Hudson's career, pointing up the suddenly obvious messages conveyed by his skittish relationships with Doris Day and his other virginal leading ladies, his verbal pas de deux with Tony Randall, the mysterious nudge-nudge wink-wink underworld inhabited by the remade men of Seconds, and the shift into horror movies as Rock's youthful beauty began to fade. Like certain films of Todd Haynes, the movie is a satirical commentary on certain strains of pop criticism and a cunning work of criticism itself.

SCORPIO RISING (1964) & UN CHANT D'AMOUR (1950)

http://www.youtube.com/v/tjBJ0AZ3Jc4&hl=en

http://www.youtube.com/v/cz0TY5lxrv4&hl=en

Between the two of them, these two short films, made by directors (Kenneth Anger, who made Scorpio Rising five years after the best-selling success of his book Hollywood Babylon, and the legendary playwright, novelist and poet Jean Genet) famous in the literary world, established a whole visual language of gay eroticism, based on fetishistic totems of power on the one hand and a defiant romantic tenderness in the face of imprisonment and institutional mistreatment on the other, that other artists have fed off for generations since. And not just gay artists:  Anger's cutting to rock music paved the way for everything from Scorsese to MTV, and Oliver Stone, a director not noted for his sensitivity to homosexuals (see JFK) did his own butch version of the shared-cigarette scene from Genet's film in Platoon, with Willem Dafoe putting a rifle to Charlie Sheen's pliant lips and giving him a little something-something.

VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)

http://www.youtube.com/v/OoZ_L1lEcTc&hl=en

In his later Far from Heaven (after honoring Genet in his 1991 Poison), Todd Haynes paid tribute to the 1950s Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk and the closeted gay subculture that many see being given a shout-out in those movies. In his salute to the glitter rock scene of the 1970s, Haynes sets out to recreate a very different era in pop culture, one that celebrated letting it all hang out -- and he also administers a bitch slap to those who would write off the music as an opportunistic sham. Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Haynes' David Bowie stand-in, may ultimately sell out to arena rock and heterosexuality, but the fire he lit in the hearts and minds of young adepts such as the rock writer played by Christian Bale continues to burn even as all the color and spark has bled out of the conventional show business world he's joined. Keep watching the skies!

PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) & HAIRSPRAY (1988, 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/v/fdKTHL0PMGw&hl=en

Back in 1972, when underground filmmaker John Waters had his starlet and muse, the 300-pound drag superstar Divine (neé Harris Glenn Milstead) eat dog shit as a glorified publicity stunt in the final moments of Pink Flamingos (a.k.a. the Citizen Kane of bad taste cinema), the wise-ass, openly gay, proto-punk director probably thought he was being pretty damn subversive in his blatant attempt to shock the bejesus out of the hopelessly square “straight” world he never had any particular interest in joining. Little did he know at the time that the most subversive act of pop culture would come sixteen years later, when he achieved crossover indie success with the (mostly) family friendly Hairspray, starring Ricki Lake as an indomitable plus-size, racially politicized Mashed Potato enthusiast and Divine as haggard Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad. Tragically, Divine passed on to the great Hefty Hideway in the sky just as Hairspray made Waters and his Baltimore crew of “Hillbilly Rip-offs” shockingly respectable (and at least as famous as Pia Zadora)...but “the Filthiest Woman Alive” lived on (in a beautifully ironic twist Flamingos’ Babs Johnson would have adored) as a beloved family-friendly icon, first as the inspiration for the under-the-sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid and later in the gender-bender casting of Harvey Fierstein, Bruce Villanch (and, recently, George Wendt??!?!?) as Edna Turnblad in the smash hit Broadway musical version of Hairspray and (egad!) John Travolta in the super-smash hit re-movie-fied 2007 version of the musical that introduced Waters’ racially and sexually egalitarian Baltimore fantasia to the High School Musical crowd (thanks to that dreamy Zac Efron). Waters’ never bought into the peace & love banalities of the Flower Children he mocked so mercilessly in his earliest films, yet the musical Hairspray’s triumphant showstopper “You Can’t Stop The Beat” rivals “The Age of Aquarius” in its joyous, unabashedly hopeful vision of a world where literally everyone is welcome and accepted at the dance...even assholes like the vain, villainous Van Tussels (as long as they’re willing to chill out, play nice and, of course, shake those fanny muscles).

Click here for Part One, Part Two & Part Three

Contributors: Phil Nugent, Andrew Osborne

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当然不是说你强

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我家LD好厉害！
不过还是很佩服他们，在那个年代如此坚毅地走过来。

最后发表： maaboo
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不要吵不要吵。

封了。
沉了。

最后发表： xblues
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喜欢的话，自己去那个链接去看，看看你挑选出来的和我的选择有什么不同。

最后发表： CandyHood
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竟然是沙发~

为什么会是"贴图笑话"呢?