Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc13.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc13!ps101 From: ps101@sdcc13.UUCP (ps101) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Nomenclature - Gay/Homosexual/Lesbia Message-ID: <290@sdcc13.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:52:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc13.290 Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:52:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:46:45 EDT References: <3486@decwrl.UUCP> <10900001@ada-uts.UUCP> <683@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 10 Summary: Gay is useful for political perposes. I use the term gay to group together for political and social purposes. I go to a gay boating club, I belong to a gay computer club, I go to gay bars, I vote according to a "gay" adjenda, and I think of myself as a gay person. I recall a few years ago reading in the Advocate about a group of people who were gay who prefered to call them faggots because of the history of the term. Faggot--slang for logs put on fires> refered to gays because gays were burned as witches in 16-17th century. It is interesting how we choose our labels.