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From: lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Gays and stereotypes. (A relativly young perspective)
Message-ID: <722@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 19:59:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 19:59:36 1986
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Keywords: diversity, acceptance

gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Andrew S. Gerber) writes:
> blueskye@sun.uucp (Tim Ryan) writes:
> > gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Andrew S. Gerber) writes
> > > [comments about effeminate gay men]
> > [comments about diversity]
> [comments about gay men acting effeminate because stereotypes say that they
>  are]

When I first came out, one of my closest female friends said that she didn't
like gay men acting effeminate ala Marilyn Monroe image because it reflected
the way they saw women, in a sexist manner. I haven't really thought this out
an awful lot, but I tend to agree. On the one hand, these men are saying "Why
should everyone conform to your view of sexuality, of how men should act?" On
the other hand, they go and act like society's image of women. They cast off
one restricting stereotype to adopt another. (I know, it's none of my business
how people act, they should be the way want to be.)

By the way, there's a movie on CBS this Saturday night called "Welcome Home,
Bobby" about a teenage boy who gets involved with an older man. Has anyone
heard anything about this?

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