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Sex and the City just gets gayer and gayer
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          Jul 17, 2001
          
        
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       MetroNewYork.com reports that the name of Carrie Bradshaws love interest in recent episodes of Sex and the City, Aidan Shaw, is an apparent homage to gay porn star Aidan Shaw. The real Aidan Shaw, who already has a perfectly good boyfriend, claims that he is still loving the attention. I get a lot of E-mails from fans about it, he claims from his home in London.     

        
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