How to have a category not show up in query post with page panigation?

When using cat in the query you need to specify the category id not name. Try this.

<?php
$gallery = get_cat_id('gallery');
$shirts = get_cat_id('shirts');
$hoodies = get_cat_id('hoodies');
$excluded_cats="-".$gallery.',-'.$shirts.',-'.$hoodies;
$limit = 5;
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts( 'cat=".$excluded_cats."&showposts=" . $limit . "&paged=' . $paged );
?>

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