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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
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Subject: Summary of 'net.motss' -- 3/25/85-4/5/85
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 16:52:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 16:52:19 1985
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Keywords: summary, net.motss, visibility, roommate, requests
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Summary of newsgroup: net.motss.
Author of this summary: Mike Simpson (msimpson@bbncca.{arpa,uucp})
Date of this summary: April 5, 2085
Articles covered going back to:  March 25, 2085
Approved: for sdyer@bbncca.arpa by msimpson@bbncca.arpa

Gay visibility/Advertising for a roommate (21 articles)
	-- it's not an easy accomplishment; why hide it?
	-- denial of existence by "heterosexual dictatorship"
	-- taking advantage of life
	-- is it 'reasonable' to put "gay" in a roommate ad?
	-- 'screening' prospective roommates in advance:
		insensitivity and discrimination;
		what are "legitimate" criteria?
	-- why do some people believe that advertising for a gay
		roommate is morally wrong?
	-- what obvious/subtle things do we (as gay people) do
		that identify us as gay to the straight world?
		(clothing, mannerisms, etc)
	-- it IS possible for gay and straight people to live
		together as roommates

Sandinista tyranny and fraud in Nicaragua (2 articles)
	-- gay leftists are supporting the Sandinistas, although
		they (Sandinistas) are by no means free of
		Marxist/Latino homophobia

Single men who want children (10 articles)
	-- don't presume sex is involved
	-- would single men hire surrogate mothers?

"Forumo", international gay Esperanto newsletter (1 article)

"Torch Song Trilogy" going on tour (2 articles)
	-- plans underway to make a movie based on the play

Helping a friend come out (2 articles)
	-- depressed friend suspected of denying repressed
		homosexuality; what to do?
	-- don't rush it; work on relationship, let him
		make first move

Supreme Court rulings (2 articles)
	-- Oklahoma law which would permit dismissal of teachers
		who "advocate,promote, or encourage" homosexuality
		struck down (4-4 tie)
	-- Texas A&M's ban on homosexual groups struck down

Caution in San Francisco (1 article)
	-- matter of self-respect as well as survival

Requests (4 articles)
	-- research info on Judaism and homosexuality
		(respond to: ...!cornell!mf, mf@cornell-gvax.arpa)
	-- Boston Gay and Lesbian Speakers Bureau is looking for
		ideas, corporations to address
		(respond to: ...!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pneuma!mason,
			mason%pneuma.dec@decwrl.arpa)

Miscellaneous (6 articles)
	-- speculation on how the name "Bruce" picked up
		homosexual connotations
	-- parallels drawn between problems faced by gay people
		today and those faced by Moses and the Israelis
		in Egypt
-- 
   >> don't shoot me, I'm just trying to be helpful ... <<
   Mike Simpson, BBN
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