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From: stoner@noao.UUCP (Jeff Stoner)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Gay Style
Message-ID: <498@carina.noao.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 12:01:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: carina.498
Posted: Fri Sep 19 12:01:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Sep-86 21:42:28 EDT
References: <1987@mtuxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: stoner@carina.UUCP (Jeff Stoner)
Organization: Natl. Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ USA
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In article <1987@mtuxo.UUCP> ped@mtuxo.UUCP (p.davidson) writes:
>
>	Whenever I have read the personal ads in the gay
>papers, everyone seems to want someone into movies, theater 
>and diners. Don't any gays beside myself like, hunting, fishing
>camping, motorcross racing, the woods and hiking.

Hunting, no; fishing, yawn; camping, YEAH!; motorcross, no; the woods, YEAH!;
hiking, OF COURSE! Movies, sometimes; theater, not too often; dinners, sure
(if it's your credit card, not mine).   ;-)

Actually, I am amazed at the number of gay men and women taking to the
outdoors. Being a member of the Tucson Great Outdoors (one of eleven or so
such chapters in AZ and CA), I am really enjoying seeing gay people out
enjoying things such as the San Diego chapter's whale watch cruise, or
just simple day hikes of a few miles roundtrip in the local area (I also
find it stimulating dragging my lover, Gary, out into the great outdoors.
The effort I expend... *sigh*   :-o  )

-----------and now, for something completely different, sort of-------------
In recent times there was a thread of conversation along the lines of "what
is gay culture?". Well, any poor antropologist trying to use the Advocate's
(or any major city's gay newspaper's) personals would probably be led to
believe the 'average' gay male is summarized as follows:

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SUBJECT: Gayess maless dynastii          (English usage flames -->/dev/null)
					 (heck, ALL flames ------>/dev/null)

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: About 30, blond, blue eyes, good physique (maintained
	by 'workouts' at a local gym or YMCA).

EMOTIONAL STATUS: Highly emotional and expresses emotions well. Often
	emotionalizing all over the place, much to the chagrin of the
	general "straight" population. Example: loudly decrying Joan
	Collin's dress in a photo on the cover of the Enquirer as
	being "just the <wrong> thing for the b**ch to wear to a party!"

INTERESTS/HOBBIES: Foremost, the physique and sexual attributes of other
	similar males (shown in the oft-used phrase in a personal of "...seeks
	same..."). In addition, prime-time dramas such as Dynasty and/or
	Dallas taken precedence over nearly everything else. Also, the rite of
	'Sunday brunch' includes conversation about the current status of
	Broadway theater (even if said brunch is occurring in Sioux Falls,
	South Dakota), the latest movies just appearing, and how good or
	bad the food is at the 'charming little place that just opened'.

DISLIKES: Sweat(*), any minor physical discomfort(*), drugs, smoking, "fats",
	"fems" and married men. However, the smoking dislike is believed to
	be only an attitude due to the heavy blue clouds of cigarette smoke
	that plague the primary meeting centers of gayess maless, the "gay bar".

MISCELLANEOUS: Serious contributor to Salvation Army of clothing, due to
	fetish of desiring "always the latest fashion". A current side effect
	is the commonplace sight of a bum with 501's, a white tank top,
	white tennis shoes, and mirrored sun glasses (especially in San
	Francisco, the primary concentration of gayess maless).

	Is a near-lethal player of the card game "Trivial Pursuit", due to
	extensive internal database of random knowledge.

(*) -- Note that two somewhat despised subgroups of gayess maless dynastii,
	known as gayess maless outdoorsii and gayess maless dominii, find sweat
	and/or minor physical discomfort (such as hiking exhaustion, sports
	competition, major home rennovation--in addition to, or instead of,
	the sado-masochistic methods of sexual interaction) stimulating.
	Gayess maless dynastii apparently find these men undesirable, using
	such derogatory phrases as "Oh, ignore him, he's just trying
	to be butch". Our analysis indicates that these groups are so small
	as to be negligible to our survey.

END OF REPORT.
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Obscure English word of the day: "bissextus: (bis-sex-tus) noun. February
	twenty-ninth; the extra day added to the Julian calendar every
	fourth year (except those evenly divisble by 400) to compensate
	for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year
	of 365 days falls short of the solar year.
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	Jeff L. Stoner
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	(also, CompuServe 71535,2043; The Source BDB 970)

	[Views expressed are not necessarily those of NOAO, AURA,
	 my terminal or the after-hours janitor at the 24-hour 7-11
	 at the corner of Warren and Speedway].
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