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all-welcome
 adj.— «You can feel the change at the Lighthouse Court, a popular—some would say notorious—gay-only Whitehead Street guesthouse that recently went “all welcome,” the local euphemism for accepting heterosexual guests as well as gays.…“They are all all-welcome, so we just folded it into our operation.”» —“Is Key West Going Straight?” by Robert Andrew Powell in Key West, Fla. New York Times Nov. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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