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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "Why be gay ...?"
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 05:36:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 05:36:40 1984
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>I think the word "gay" is a real perversion of English.
>There is nothing gay (i.e. happy) about a life-style that some homosexuals
>practice which encourages diseases like AIDS.

There is nothing wonderful about a life-style that some heterosexuals
practice which encourages diseases like Herpes, Syphilus, or Gonorhea.

First we assign a bit to sex...
Then  we assign a bit to gender...
Then  we assign a bit to preferred gender of partner...
Then  we assign a bit to preferred sex    of partner...

Now then...If your sex is the same as your gender, and your partner's sex is
the same as your partner's gender, and your sex is opposite your partner's, then
you are straight (praise the lord :-)

But, If your sex is the same as your gender, and your partner's sex is
the same as your partner's gender, and your sex is the same as your partner's,
then you are gay (praise the devil :-)

However, If your sex is the same as your partner's gender, and your partner's
sex is the same as your gender, and your sex is not the same as your gender,
then, what if two hermaphrodites were partners...de ja vu...

The point I'm trying to make is this...
There are two kinds of people in the world,
Those who relate to people,
And those who divide people into different kinds of people before they decide
how they are *supposed* to (not) relate to that person based on whether or not
that person can be properly squashed into the stereotype against which they
are being measured.  

[ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4]!sun!sunny	(Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)

	To be nobody but yourself
	in a world which is doing its best
	night and day
	to make you like everybody else
	means to fight the hardest battle
	any human being can fight
	and never stop fighting.
	                                   e.e.cumming