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From: sdp@ucsbcsl.UUCP ( )
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Subject: Re: Bisexuality anyone?
Message-ID: <317@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 22:04:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 22:04:54 1985
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The reactions I've seen in other members of the gay community to bisexuals
has got be the single most puzzling thing I've learned about since I came
out.  The most striking example I've heard of is from our local "Speaker's
Bureau".  Volunteers speak at events ranging from Rotary Club meetings, to
high school sex/family life classes, describing a little of what it is like
to be gay in this society.  One of the guidelines they use is that no
bisexuals are allowed to be on the panels.

This reasoning reflects the attitude "a bisexual is a gay person who hasn't
been willing or able to come completely out of the closet".  I don't feel
that way.  It seems to me that the bisexuals ought to be considered 
a natural ally of the gay rights movement.  And I absolutely cannot stomach
such sweeping generalizations about other people's mental health!

I don't see me sexuality as being a strictly black-and-white proposition,
any more than the rest of my personality.  


The Demented Daemon,

Steve Parker
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