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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: My View of it All
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 15:45:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 15:45:26 1984
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I have been following the discussions going on in this
and other groups for some time now.  I must say, it has all
been very lively and interesting.  I would like to add
something that either might or might not be relevant to the
discussion, if I may.

Over the years, I have come to form some niches or categories
in my thinking as it relates to homosexuality.  In my mind, I
have formed four niches into which I place homosexuals:
Homosexuals, gays, queers, and animals.  Now before someone starts
flaming, I might point out that there are plenty of heteros who
also fall into these niches alongside the homosexuals.

In the first grouping fall probably most of the homosexuals
I know.  Fine decent people who contribute to society, do their
thing without fanfare, and are just as well adjusted as anyone
else.

The second category, the gays, comprise that group of people
who seem to have to keep telling everyone that they are gay
as if they have some kind of complex.  They walk around with
badges proclaiming their sexuality as if it were a claim to
fame.  They march in parades with banners.  Not just the Gay
Pride Parade, all parades including St Paddy's with a sign
saying Gay Irish Unite.  These people, in my mind, have a
communication problem.  I could care less if they are gay
or not, so why keep telling me they are?  It seems as if
their nvolvement in Gay Rights is nothing more than an
opportunity to perform public scourging.  It seems to make
them feel better if they keep proclaiming their gayness.
I only get annoyed by these people, but I can tolerate
them.  Hold the flame.  I also get annoyed with straights
who do essentially the same thing, especially around St
Patrick's Day when I have to go through the Kiss Me I'm
Irish syndrome.

My next category is one that will probably bring on the
real flames.  Queers, for lack of a better word.  These are
the guys (I have never seen women do this) that insist on
parading down the street in New Hope, Pa, arms all entangled,
tounges in ears, dressed in only bikini shorts (very tight),
with often, the tip of their organ casually peeking out of
one leg of their shorts.  This is what I call a queer.  They
perform their little sexual scenarios on main streets in number
of gathering places around the country.  When not making asses
of themselves in New Hope or out on the Cape, they gather in
psuedo macho clumps, leather and all, in bars where the
atmosphere smacks of early Marlon Brando.  What I see they
are trying to do is nothing more than upset the straights.
My biggest objection to queers is their attitude towards
other people.  They just don't give a damn how others feel
about someone performing a sex act on the street.  I don't
care if they are, at least moderately dressed (comparable
to the rest of the folks on the street), holding hands
(yeah, I know, just like straights), and behaving with
some sembalance of street decorum.  If they want to orgy,
take it home or to some secluded spot.  A roll in the hay
in a downtown public park at high noon on a Saturday is
not my idea of decorum.  BTW, I have seen this type of
behaviour several times and it always brings my blood to a boil.
I have had my kids with me on several of these occasions
and it caused us to cancel plans.  (I don't believe in
straights performing in the park in this manner either.)
I'm not talking about casual intimacy here, I'm talking
Fondle City, no holds barred.

My last group of beings is resereved for animals.  These are
the ones, homosexual or heterosexual, who prey on children.
These things (I hesitate to call them people) are sick.
These are the ones we read most about in the media and leave
everyone with a formed opinion about all homosexuals.  Here
we have the NAMBULA bunch.  Here we have the guy who rapes
a 5-year old.  Here we have the dregs of society.  We don't
often see these THINGS in society until they surface after
performing oneof their henious acts.  I have no use for them
and I hope noone else does.

Well, that's all I wanted to say.  I only hope I haven't
offended anyone with my personal categorizing system.  That's
just the way I see it from here.  I'm not out to bait the
members of this group, I just thought you might be interested
in hearing how one person views the discussion from this side
of the fence.  I know there will be quite a few who disagree
with how I feel, but if we didn't have disagreements, there
would be no horse races, and Monmouth Park would be closed,
and the tax rate in our county would go up, and I would have
to get another job to pay the taxes, and my family would suffer,
and I would suffer, so disagreements are fine with me so I
don't have to suffer.
T. C. Wheeler