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BREAKING: Janelle Monáe Comes Out as Queer, Pansexual: ‘I Consider Myself to Be a Free-Ass Motherf–ker’

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by Andy Towle
May 15, 1988 | 8:00pm

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content-heavy website for an Australia-based media company. He worked in
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the development of over thirty projects for their Feature Animation and Family
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