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From: evans@wivax.UUCP (Barry Evans)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: advice to gays
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 00:24:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 00:24:10 1983
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Re: >It is not clear to me that net.motss will be a very positive
    >source of information for you, judging from what I have seen so far.

I guess I kind of have to disagree on this, at least partially.  Right now
as it is, net.motss is not helping any closeted gays very much.  It doesn't
have to be this way.  Probably the hardest part of "coming out" is for
the individual to accept themselves.  Once this is done, they can accept
advise from others, reach out and ask those questions which they've kept
bottled up for so long.  This net (net.motss) can be an ideal place for
people to do this.  Often, people fear talking about being gay to others
simply because society deems it as being "wrong", hence, they aren't 
*supposed* to be that way.  There's nothing like peer pressure to really 
screw things up.  This newsgroup offers a semi-anonymous setting where
people can speak out and ask such things - there are even people who
will post for the others who wish more anonymousity [is that a word?].

Given some time, people will speak up - maybe some encouragement would help
them out a bit...   And, even if they don't ask, they *will* be listening.

-barry
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Barry Evans   {decvax,linus}!wivax!evans
              Wang Institute (617) 649-9731 x383