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Gay Dad

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Gay Dad were an English rock band formed in London that broke up in 2002. [1]

97 relations: A cappella, A-side and B-side, Alternative rock, Andrew Loog Oldham, Andy Bell (musician), Art of Noise, Artists and repertoire, Audio engineer, B-Unique Records, Bassist, BBC Radio 1, Brixton, Capitol Records, CD:UK, Charley Stone, Chris Hughes (musician), Chrysalis Records, Cliff Jones (musician), Demo (music), Drummer, EMI, England, FIFA 2000, Furniture (band), Gary Langan, Gay Dad, Graphic designer, Guitarist, Ian Brown, Independent record label, Indie rock, Island Records, Jamie Dornan, Journalist, Joy!, Keyboardist, Leeds, Leisure Noise, Liam Gallagher, London, London Records, Longpigs, Love Bites (band), Mark Frith, Mark Owen, Mark Radcliffe, Melody Maker, Mercury Records, Mitsubishi, Mojo (magazine), ..., Morfa Stadium, Musical ensemble, NME, Now, Always and Forever, Oasis (band), Peter Saville (graphic designer), Post-Britpop, Prospect (magazine), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series), Reading and Leeds Festivals, Record label, Record producer, Recording contract, Ride (band), Rock music, Salad (band), Scanners (band), Select (magazine), Sia (musician), Singing, Single (music), Song, Special edition, Stereophonics, Swansea, TFI Friday, The Applicators, The Cure, The Electric Soft Parade, The Face (magazine), The Freelance Hellraiser, The Naked Chef, The Rolling Stones, The Sunday Times, Thirsty Ear Recordings, To Earth with Love, Tony Visconti, Top 40, Top of the Pops, Transmission (Gay Dad album), UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United Kingdom, United States, University of Liverpool, Wandsworth, Young Heart Attack. Expand index (47 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Andrew Loog Oldham

Andrew Loog Oldham (born 29 January 1944) is an English record producer, talent manager, impresario and author.

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Andy Bell (musician)

Andrew Piran Bell (born 11 August 1970) is an English musician who plays guitar in the band Ride.

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Art of Noise

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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B-Unique Records

B-Unique Records is a London-based record label, and publishing company founded in 2001 by Mark Lewis and Martin Toher.

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Bassist

A bassist, or bass player, is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Brixton

Brixton is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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CD:UK

CD:UK (CountDown:United Kingdom), stylised as cd:uk, is a British music television programme.

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Charley Stone

Charley Stone is an English multi-instrumentalist musician based in London, UK.

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Chris Hughes (musician)

Christopher Merrick Hughes (born 3 March 1954, London, England), also known as Merrick, is a British music producer and former drummer, acoustic guitarist and keyboards player for Adam and the Ants.

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Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records is a British record label that was created in 1968.

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Cliff Jones (musician)

Cliff Jones (born 1968 in Hampton Court, London) is a British musician, songwriter, record producer, journalist and educator who came to prominence as the singer with the Britpop band Gay Dad.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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FIFA 2000

FIFA 2000 (titled FIFA 2000: Major League Soccer in North America, and FIFA 2000: Europa League Soccer in Japan) is an association football video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts.

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Furniture (band)

Furniture were a British new wave band, active from 1979 to 1991.

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Gary Langan

Gary Michael Langan (born 19 April 1956) is an English engineer, record producer, mixer and musician.

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Gay Dad

Gay Dad were an English rock band formed in London that broke up in 2002.

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Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Ian Brown

Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English musician.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jamie Dornan

James Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Joy!

"Joy!" is a song by the English rock band Gay Dad from its first album, Leisure Noise, released as a single on 24 May 1999.

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Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leisure Noise

Leisure Noise is the first album by London band Gay Dad, released via London Records and Sire Records on 7 June 1999.

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Liam Gallagher

William John Paul Gallagher (born 21 September 1972), better known as Liam Gallagher, is an English singer and songwriter.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Records

London Records is a record label in the U.K. that marketed records in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America from 1947 to 1979 before becoming semi-independent.

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Longpigs

Longpigs were a British alternative rock band who rose to fame on the fringe of Britpop in the 1990s, comprising Crispin Hunt (vocals), Richard Hawley (guitar), Simon Stafford (bass guitar) and former Cabaret Voltaire member Dee Boyle (drums) who was replaced by Andy Cook for their second album.

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Love Bites (band)

Love Bites is an English girl band that formed in 2004 and disbanded in 2007, but reformed again in 2011.

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Mark Frith

Mark Frith (born 22 May 1970, Sheffield) is a British journalist and editor.

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Mark Owen

Mark Anthony Patrick Owen (born 27 January 1972), is an English singer-songwriter.

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Mark Radcliffe

Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster, musician and writer.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Mitsubishi

The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Morfa Stadium

Morfa Stadium was an athletics stadium in the Landore area of Swansea, Wales.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Now, Always and Forever

"Now, Always and Forever" was the first single by the band Gay Dad from their second album, Transmission.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Peter Saville (graphic designer)

Peter Saville (born 9 October 1955) is an English art director and graphic designer.

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Post-Britpop

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period following Britpop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Pulp, Oasis and Blur, but with less overtly British concerns in their lyrics and making more use of American rock and indie influences, as well as experimental music.

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Prospect (magazine)

Prospect is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics, economics and current affairs.

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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series)

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British television series, produced by Working Title Television for BBC One, written and produced by Charlie Higson.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Ride (band)

Ride are an English rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Salad (band)

Salad are a UK-based alternative rock group formed in London in 1992, that included Dutch vocalist/keyboardist Marijne van der Vlugt, bassist Pete Brown, drummer Rob Wakeman (ex-Colenso Parade), and guitarist Paul Kennedy.

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Scanners (band)

Scanners are an alternative rock band from London, England formed around 2004.

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Select (magazine)

Select was a United Kingdom music magazine of the 1990s which was particularly known for covering Britpop, a term coined in the magazine by Stuart Maconie.

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Sia (musician)

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, record producer and music video director.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Special edition

The terms special edition, limited edition, and variants such as deluxe edition, or collector's edition, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints, video games or recorded music and films, but now including clothing, cars, fine wine, and whisky, among other products.

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Stereophonics

Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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TFI Friday

TFI Friday is an entertainment show which was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

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The Applicators

The Applicators are an American pop punk band.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.

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The Electric Soft Parade

The Electric Soft Parade are an English psych pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently including Andrew Mitchell (of Dundee-based group The Hazey Janes) and Damo Waters, as well as long-standing bass/keyboard player, Matthew Twaites.

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The Face (magazine)

The Face was a British music, fashion and culture monthly magazine published from 1980 to 2004 and launched in May 1980 in London by Nick Logan, the British journalist who had previously been editor of New Musical Express and Smash Hits.

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The Freelance Hellraiser

Roy Kerr, aka the Freelance Hellraiser, is one of the creators of the UK bootleg (mashup) scene.

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The Naked Chef

The Naked Chef was a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Jamie Oliver.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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Thirsty Ear Recordings

Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label.

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To Earth with Love

"To Earth with Love", released on 18 January 1999, was the debut single by the English rock band Gay Dad.

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Tony Visconti

Anthony Edward Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is an American record producer, musician and singer.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Transmission (Gay Dad album)

Transmission is the second and final studio album by London band Gay Dad, released via B-Unique on 24 September 2001.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.

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Wandsworth

Wandsworth Town is a district of south London within the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Young Heart Attack

Young Heart Attack (YHA) are a high-energy rock band from Austin, Texas, that formed in 2001.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Dad

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