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From: rob@ptsfb.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: No Wonder We Look Bad
Message-ID: <313@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 12:54:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 12:54:13 1986
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In article <500@drutx.UUCP> bal@drutx.UUCP (LesebergB) writes:
>
>        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."

1. What about Christopher Street?

2. The National Enquirer is probably number 1 somewhere, too,
I suspect.

3. To a large extent, mainstream publications satisfy gay people's
nonsexual and nonsocial needs. Separate gay publications exist
only to  fill the void left by mainstream publications. The void
includes
	a. news of specific interest to gay people, which often
	the mainstream publications won't/don't print.

	b. reviews of movies, books, etc. that have a "gay theme".

	c. personal ads or anything else that has to do with
	homosexual social/sexual relations.

4. Publications solely dedicated to sleazy heterosexual personal ads
exist. But then why are sleazy homosexual personal ads incorporated
in otherwise non-sleazy publications? Probably because those publishers
and editors who are upfront enough to put out a gay publication are
not embarrassed by the range of human sexuality.

5. Many people feel so oppressed/afraid with regards to their homosexuality
that they will only venture out into gay institutions (e.g. bars) and
gay publications to satisfy their basic needs, i.e. sex.
Which is to say, there probably is greater demand for gay publications
to carry personal ads than to cover news of interest to gay people.

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*Once you start feeling you have to apologize for someone else's     *
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