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7 Words That Have Been Reclaimed By The LGBTQ+ Community

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GCN reports that below are a handful of words historically used as insults but which, over time, have been reinterpreted and reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ community, sometimes lovingly, sometimes controversially.

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