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      <image:caption>Photograph by Lee Snider June 13, 1983: A vigil in Central Park for Ken Ramsauer, the subject of Geraldo Rivera’s report on AIDS, attended by 1,500.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The iconic 1990 deathbed photograph that later became the centerpiece of a Benetton campaign. Photo: Therese Frare</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1983: Ken Ramsauer, left, the subject of Geraldo Rivera’s report on AIDS. Photo: Dimitrius/Contact Press Images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Circa 1985: Brian Gougeon, right, France’s onetime roommate, and Doug Gould, Gougeon’s lover, and after Gougeon’s death, France’s. Photo: Courtesy of How to Survive a Plague</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1990: France with Doug Gould. Photo: Courtesy of How to Survive a Plague</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>December 1, 2016: The New York City AIDS Memorial will open. Photo: Courtesy of A2T for Studio AI Architects</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo: Mary Ellen Mark</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo: Mary Ellen Mark</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Science of Gaydar - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>EXAMPLE A: Hair Whorl (Men) Gay men are more likely than straight men to have a counterclockwise whorl. Photographs by Mark Mahaney</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>EXAMPLE B: Thumbprint Density (Male) Gay men and straight women have an increased density of fingerprint ridges on the thumb and pinkie of the left hand.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>EXAMPLE C: Digit Proportions (Female) The index fingers of most straight men are shorter than their ring fingers, and for most women they are the same length or longer. Gay men and lesbians tend to have reversed ratios.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>EXAMPLE D: Hand Dexterity (Male) Gay men and lesbians have a 50 percent greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than their straight counterparts.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.davidfrance.com/blog/2005/06/01/love-and-terror</loc>
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      <image:caption>June 1, 2005</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handcuffed and shackled at an Israeli military court hearing in January, Yusra Abdu awaits her fate under the ENTRANCE FOR DETAINEES sign.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“SHE IS INNOCENT,” insists Yusra’s mother, Samar (left, in her daughter’s old room; above, with husband Mahmoud). Yusra wanted to be a wedding photographer, the couple says, not a terrorist.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>HANI AKAD, 24 (left), WAS A WANTED MAN IN Israel, but to a West Bank girl like Yusra (above), he was a heartthrob. “I want to become a suicide bomber,” she said by way of introduction. He asked her if she had patriotic motives. “I told him, ‘No, I’m just bored with life.’”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>David at Gay Pride March, NYC, 1982</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>David on LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS on November 2, 2017.</image:caption>
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