Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!MITVMA!LUTHER From: LUTHER%MTUS5.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (David B. O'Donnell) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gaynet Subject: Re: 'Homosexual' Message-ID: <9002080400.AA06466@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Feb 90 03:59:10 GMT Sender: Gaynet Distribution List Reply-To: gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway X-To: gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 7 Feb 90 13:18:12 EST from Just my personal bias, but I prefer having 'gay' used as an adjective when1 referring to me, too. I am not _a_ gay, I am a gay _man_. Interestingly I'd never heard that homosexual is indeed purely an adjective (like gay) but then I guess I never thought of it. Virtually, David B. O'Donnell Owner/Moderator, Belief-L ListServe Distribution List ECLOS Developer/Distributor _____ ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)