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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: thoughts on desperation
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 01:22:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 01:22:06 1984
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Sorry Jeff, I read your "triumphant" article in much the same way as Sophie
did.  And this latest article, well, there's just so much misinformation there
(or more kindly, ignorance) of what gay people are like (not that one should
even have the PRESUMPTION to speak for more than oneself) that I feel defeated,
overwhelmed, incapable of knowing where to begin (or even whether to bother)
to react to your article substantively.  Perhaps if I calm down in a few days
I'll give it a stab.

A couple of comments: Boswell's book is readily available in most bookstores;
it is indeed a shame that most Fundamentalists don't or won't read it.
And, if your gay friends all demonstrate an "unattractive self-loathing"
or a "streak of meanness", perhaps you need to find new gay friends.
Take a look at the articles in "net.motss"; do the kaleidoscope of people,
ideas and topics evidence "self-loathing"?  Meanness?  

I wonder what conclusions I could come up with about my straight friends
based on a few humdingers I know.  Or maybe a theory of heterosexuality
based on the postings to "net.singles" (and obsolete warmed-over Freudian
jargon.)
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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