In the last couple days, we've asked you to come up with some ways of rewriting ledes so they'd be more Post appropriate, and you responded, in droves. But sometimes a lede is so perfect, in and of itself, that there's really no need to rewrite it. Take, for instance, this story from the Brooklyn Papers, about an upcoming cruise on the Queen Mary 2 with 3,000 gays and lesbians as passengers that's being billed as the "first-ever, full-ship chartered gay cruise." (We'll take their word for it.) You've probably already thought of your own, overly clever lede. But really, why not just go with what the Brooklyn Paper thought of all by themselves:

Queen Mary 2 is about to host a bunch of queens.

Really, the Post could learn a lot from them.

A Gay Old Time [Brooklyn Papers]
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