Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!pooh
From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Wendy P. Nather)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: What's this... someone new?
Message-ID: <286@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-May-84 10:23:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.286
Posted: Fri May 25 10:23:31 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 03:04:55 EDT
References: <19543@wivax.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 40

Okay, a challenge has been given!  I have been
following the postings for a couple of weeks now,
but this is the first discussion I felt I
*could* join in on.

This is mainly because I am a straight female,
but, at the risk of sounding cliched, some of
my best friends are gay.  One of them I have
known for eight years, and I don't really remember
when I discovered he was gay.  It just seemed
natural, since he was always making little
comments and made almost no attempt to hide
his preference, at least in front of our
group of friends.  

If my brother told me he was gay, I'm not
sure how I'd react.  For some reason, I think
I'd be upset--could it be that I would feel
more protective/possessive? (silly feelings
in themselves, but lots of feelings are)
(He is a year younger than I am, by the way.)

Other close friends have confessed to me
that they were either gay or sometimes
attracted to MOTSS, and it has not bothered
me in the slightest.  Most of the time I
was not too surprised, since I had gotten
an inkling before (*side question: how many
of you out there claim to be able to tell
when a person is gay just by watching?).
Their reactions to telling me were much
worse than mine were at hearing it--they
were the ones who were upset, insecure etc.

Let's fire it up, folks!  I know you're out there--
I can hear you breathing!


     Pooh                      [Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!]