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Chasing Straight Girls: Why the hell do we do it?!
Straight girls and Lesbians. The love story that never was or the perfect friends to lovers love story? The girls talk about their experiences having crushes on straight girls, their celeb straight crushes and why most lesbians have at least one incident of fancying a straight women. Do we really all do it? Can it work out? Let’s find out!
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Articles:
Guardian Article - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/20/staceyann-chin-straight-women-thrill-me
Queer Baiting in the music industry - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/queerbaiting-lgbtq-community-1201273/
True Story - https://gomag.com/article/chasing-the-straight-chick/
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