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From: bal@drutx.UUCP (LesebergB)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: No Wonder We Look Bad
Message-ID: <500@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 13:57:21 EST
Article-I.D.: drutx.500
Posted: Thu Feb  6 13:57:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:33:03 EST
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        I  was  looking  at  this  week's  issue   of   OUTFRONT,
Colorado's  #1  gay  publication,  and  it occured to me how such
things are giving gays a bad reputation.  There are many ads  for
X-rated  theatres  and  bookstores,  a  leather  bar  ad, and the
PERSONNAL ADS.  These personnal ads are  very  specific  in  what
these guys are looking for.  I'm not saying that these ads should
be taken out or anything, but can't there  be  any  positive  gay
publications  to show society we are not sex crazy 24 hours a day
(though  some  of  us  might  be).   This  is   "Colorado's   #1"
publication.   I  see  copies  of  it littered in the street.  My
straight friends see it and they say, "How can this filth  be  #1
?!?!?" "Your friends aren't like this."


        Oh sure, it's fun to read, but  it  just  gives  the  gay
society  as  a "whole" a bad picture, and misleading.  In my home
country, Lincoln, Nebraska, the most popular publication was  the
VOICE.  This was a very attractive, magazine style newspaper with
regular columns and very good articles and ADS !  I am trying  to
get a subscription out here for it, since it was a good source of
the news for the local gay scene there.

        I'd be interested if other  communities  have  impressive
gay  newspapers  that  are  not  so  misleading  as  the sex rags
circulated in the Denver.                                          


"36...24...36...here we go,
 I've never had a girl before ....."

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