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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: excuse me for staring
Message-ID: <1264@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 13:55:59 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.1264
Posted: Fri Apr  5 13:55:59 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:05:18 EST
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Hello, there was/is a lot of flack in this newsgroup about gays
being "too noticeable". Please consider that no matter how open
the world gets about homosexuality, 90% of us are straight, so
heterosexual relationships are the norm. I don't like homophobia,
and I hate violence against gays, but pardon me for staring a
little when I see a gay couple. THe gays at Reed are pretty open,
which is really nice....but when I followed 2 of my gay male
friends up a stairway and they were getting touchy-feely, I
couldn't help but notice.
I remember having homosexuality explained to me when I was about
six (i.e around 1970). A neighbor of ours, a very prominent man,
was one of a group arrested in a department store for soliciting
sex in the restroom. Since I was starting to read the paper, and
Mr. C. was mentioned in a front-page article about the bust, my
parents deemed it necessary to explain to me what was going on.
They said that while they found nothing wrong with homosexuality,
many of the neighbors did, and that I shouldn't talk about it. I
guess I was lucky to be raised in such an accepting atmosphere.
I like most of the gay men and women that I've met. You seem to be
a lot more ethical than many straights.
By the way, I'm not entirely heterosexual, in feelings if not
experience.

					Ann Muir-Thomas

"I'll be mellow when I'm dead!"-weird Al via Tony F.