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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Gay-related issues in my daily life
Message-ID: <849@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 13:43:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 13:43:23 1985
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A few weeks ago I posted an article that described three major personal
issues that impact me as a gay man on a daily basis. From some of the
e-mail I have gotten in response, I believe many net.motss-readers may
have misunderstood my intention and I would like to clear up any mis-
conceptions out there.

The article described my feelings of disenfranchisement from straight
people at work, fear of AIDS, and unfulfilled dreams of forming a home
with another man. I believe these are quite common issues in the lives
of many gay men today. My intent was to document some issues that affect
my life on a daily basis in the hope of starting some discussion in net.motss
on them. I was interested in seeing how other gay men deal with those
issues in their daily lives and perhaps find better ways to deal with them.

The article was written in a personal style rather than in a more objective
and expository style, and I think that misled some net.motss-readers to
take my posting as a desire for support/sympathy. One heterosexual
man e-mailed, "What a sad letter. I could sense the hurt over the phone
lines." And a gay man e-mailed, "But I just wanted to write ... and say
someone out there cares." Oddly enough, there were NO follow ups posted
to net.motss. Is that because the three issues presented ARE in fact very
common issues for gay men and because they DO NOT HAVE obvious solutions?