Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: re: transsexuals (hetero/homosexual relationships) Message-ID: <180@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 15:42:47 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.180 Posted: Thu Jan 10 15:42:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 08:01:59 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 39 >From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) >Subject: re: transsexuals >Message-ID: <2233@randvax.UUCP> >... >it seems that being a bisexual would be considered being a ``traitor'' >and that she'd probably be completely ostracized. (I might add that >this group of ``friends'' included gays of both sexes, and she claimed >that they both had this prejudice.) > >Is this woman's experience unusual? Or does this just go to show >how prejudice exists in every group, even those who are themselves >victims of it? I don't know how common this is but I can contribute the following personal experience: I have a woman friend who considers herself to be completely gay. As far as I know, she's had only one heterosexual relationship (with me) that was actually physically heterosexual. (That was about 12 years ago. These days we're friends.) At the time she was very worried about her gay friends finding out -- so much so that we pretended I was gay, even to the extent of getting a bisexual male friend of mine to pretend to be my SO at times. At the time, I thought the whole situation was a bit silly and somewhat amusing. Looking back now, I find it rather sad. Interestingly, most of our mutual friends now know I'm not gay and don't think any the less of her (or me) for it. Was all that effort wasted? It's certainly a shame that anyone even thought it might be necessary. -- ============================================================================== ... sitting in a pile of junk on the runway, wondering what happened ... The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe