Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: re: gays masquerading as heterosexuals Message-ID: <791@pucc-k> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:37:30 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.791 Posted: Mon Jan 7 12:37:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 03:21:35 EST References: <169@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University Lines: 39 [] This is changing the subject slightly (while leaving the subject line in tact), and sort of replying to Henry Mensch's article at the same time. This part of the country is terrible in accepting homosexuality. A little background: I've spent the summers and winter of the past few years in Sacramento, CA. Now for those of you who have never been there, Sacramento is not a terribly fun place to be, in fact it is out and out boring. To make up for this, I spend a lot of time in San Francisco. I have a couple of friends who I've met thru various ways who live in a seedier part of SF. One of the persons who I go to see there frequently is a lesbian. Now my frineds here have a terrible time trying to understand how I could be friends with a gay person, and how I could put up with an ocaisional gay trying to pick me up there. A lot of my male friends here say they would probably punch any gay that tried to pick them up (they obviously haven't seen some of the gays in SF). Nos the point I'm trying to get at is that there is very little tolerance for gays in this part of the country. There also is the idea that a) There are VERY few gays outside of SF and b) the entire city of SF is gay. I know both of these are not true. I know some of my friends here are gay, and on more than one occasion, a gay tried to pick me up in Bethlehem, PA. So in case any of you thought that Henry was just amking a lot of noise when he said that people only thought that gays lived in California and that there is very little tolerance for gays in the midwest, think again. And for any of you who think the same way, it isn't true. There is a higher percentage in CA, but they don't have a corner on the market. Just making noise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The dogs follow and the vultures lead."