Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!krossen From: krossen@bbncca.ARPA (Ken Rossen) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: opportunity,the net,and language Message-ID: <1527@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 09:57:35 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1527 Posted: Thu Aug 15 09:57:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:00:13 EDT References: <503@hpda.UUCP> <801@ptsfa.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 Owen Rowley: >To get back to my main point....there are a lot of things we could be >discussing here that could provide valuable resources for us all, >Gay and non Gay alike. Rob Bernardo > I am not sure that this group should be a resource for the non-gay. > I, for one, am not about to start explaining or defending my gayness > in THIS group. Do you really believe that this group being "a resource for the non-gay" means only that you will be constantly challenged to defend your gayness? I don't dismiss the existence of hecklers, but I am disappointed that you project their tendencies onto all non-gays. This group has the potential to highlight important gay issues to the (USENET) world at large. Don't we all benefit from better understanding? Please don't let "heterophobia" get in the way. It would be a sad mistake. We are not all like Ken Arndt. We CAN accept you as you are, and I believe we can all learn a lot from each other. -- Ken Rossen ...!{decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,harvard}!bbncca!krossen ... or ... krossen@bbnccp.ARPA