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  • Lou Reed, in Stockholm, Sweden, April 4, 1983.
    Lou Reed, in Stockholm, Sweden, April 4, 1983.
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    Sorry, Kids: Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ Is Not Transphobic

    Citing the track’s ‘dangerous rhetoric,’ a group of Canadian college students—who believe the song ‘minimizes the experiences of oppression’—have it all wrong: Lou Reed was a vanguard for gender identity.

    byRachel Shukert
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