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From: mgdlin@beryl.berkeley.edu (Gary D. Lindsay)
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Subject: Re: Isolation and integration (was Straits in gay bars)
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 16:40:13 EDT
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In article <648@faron.UUCP> his@faron.UUCP (Howard Irwin Solomon) writes:
>
>....  I just
>don't feel my sexual orientation is always relevant.  I am a very private
>person and I wonder why it should be anyone's business at work who I sleep
>with.

You're right Howard, it is no one's business who you sleep with.  But
being Gay is more than genitalia.  If you wouldn't deny your
Jewishness (I don't know whether the cultural or religious part is
most important for you, but either is as valid a part of your being as
your sexual orientation.), then why should you deny your sexual
orientation.

>I have a lover of almost two years and I prefer to ogle blondes but tend to
>date brunettes. (Etc, etc.......) (Those of you who want a full bio can write
>me ... :-)

So, why shouldn't you talk as sordidly as males in the 90% minority? 
If you come to California, let's go to Castro and leer at the boys. :-)

>I find this a tacky way to talk to someone if we happened to be talking about
>an unrelated topic.  
 
But let's hear it for tack. :-)

Gary