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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Homophobic Tales of Intrigue
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 12:52:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 21 12:52:49 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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A good friend of mine, a New Yorker, met one of his lovers years
ago in Boston (no, it wasn't me!):  he was strolling through Bos-
ton's Combat Zone (the local redlight district: small, grimey, &
violent) one night and approached a rather hostile-looking black
man sitting on the hood of a car.  My friend said "Hello."  And
thereby began a long relationship.  Up til then the guy used to
hang out in the Zone to beat up gays.  Why didn't he beat up my
friend.  "No one ever said hello to me before," he explained.

Macho football players at local colleges (Tufts, Harvard, BU,
Northeastern, you name it) used to consistently pick up a really
outrageous and flaming quean I knew in the 70s:  the athletes
enjoyed being penetrated anally, to the point of obsession:  it
got tedious so my friend started refusing offers after a while.
I don't think all of the jocks were necessarily gay or even bi-
sexual, but simply wanted relief from the straitjacket of hetero-
sexual myth & rite.

One more item about sexual appearance vs. reality:  I remember
reading about the results of a survey done in the Bay Area in
the late 70s.  Brothels in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley etc.),
of which there are more than a few apparently, were canvassed
about the sharp rise in S & M demanded by heterosexual male 
customers of the ladies.  The ladies wearily reported that the clients
only wanted to be M's and be humiliated & abused: tied up, beaten,
insulted, dominated, etc.  The clients were typically aggressive
high-power upper management types, happily married & with promising
careers, who had large numbers of people under for them.


					Happy Holidays,
					Ron