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From: millines@fortune.UUCP (Trish Millines)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.motss,net.singles
Subject: homosexual associations
Message-ID: <4061@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 15:45:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.4061
Posted: Mon Aug 27 15:45:17 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:20:46 EDT
Organization: The Rugby Pitch in San Francisco
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THIS IS FOR THE LINE EATER*****************************************

     I would like to know why straight people always think of males when
they speak of homosexuals?  Lesbians are homosexuals too you know!

     Most of the articles I read in the news papers and on the net usually
refer to male homosexual behavior, but the word "homosexual" itself does not
mean "male". 

     Take for example AIDS.  Now that is a male homosexual disease, but until
recently, most of the articles didn't point that out.  People always say the
words "faggot" and "queen" when they're trying to be smart.  I'm not a faggot
or a queen, but I am a homosexual.  Get my point?

     I'm tired of being grouped in with male homosexuals when someone is talkingabout gays.  There are alot of things that go on in the male homosexual
community that lesbians don't approve of and would never practice.  This is not
to say that I don't like male homosexuals, but if I'm going to be put in a
category, I'd like to be put in the one I belong in.

     So to repeat my question, why to straight people always think of males
when they speak of homosexuals?