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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
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 12:37:30 1985
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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.
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Andy Banta			{decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz
Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major"
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