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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
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:52:39 1985
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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.