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Last week we looked at the hilarious wrongness of the book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, and this week we're looking at another 1970s publication with a catchy title: GAY. That's it, that's the title. This one actually manages to get things right ... at least, some of the time. So, how do our modern ideas about the gays compare to the ideas in GAY?

Here's a backup link to this week's video: https://youtu.be/tzOiKuMyqww

And here are some screengrabs of how queer people responded to David Reuben's book back in the 70s:

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POSTEDFeb 1, 2026
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