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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: An international gay magazine
Message-ID: <730@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 02:41:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 02:41:56 1985
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Some time back there was a request in this newsgroup for information on gay
culture in other countries.  The other day I ran into a possible source for
such information which may interest some of you.  It was an ad in a magazine
which ran like this:

	FORUMO estas la dimonata bulteno de Ligo de Samseksamaj
	Geesperantistoj.  ^Gi enhavas gejajn nova^jojn, anoncetojn
	kaj opiniojn el la tuta mondo.  Petu informojn ^ce:

			Geja Emancipi^go
			Po^stfako 399
			NL-3740 A J Baarn
			Nederlando

In (rather literal) English:

	FORUM is the bimonthly bulletin of the League of Homosexual
	Esperantists.  It contains gay news, announcements and
	opinions from the entire world.  Ask for information at:

			Gay Emancipation
			PO Box 399
			NL-3740 A J Baarn
			The Netherlands

The ad and the magazine are written in Esperanto, a constructed language
intended for international use (for example, for organizations and magazines
like the ones above).  Some of us have been discussing Esperanto lately in
net.nlang, so I won't bore you with details; suffice it to say that
Esperanto is far easier to learn than any national language and picking up
enough to read a magazine can be accomplished in a few weeks.  The first
lesson of a free postal course has already been posted to net.nlang.

For more information on Esperanto, feel free to send me mail; for more
information on Geja Emancipi^go, write to the address above.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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