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The sources in this article are terrible, most are either unreliable, or not independent, or both.

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Reposted from the AFD for future reference. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:17, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some of those aren't that great (Buzzfeed, for example). We should be using scholarly sources from the field of LGBT studies, not articles that may barely be more than blog posts spouting some writer's opinion. Crossroads ^-talk- 03:44, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]