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From: stone@masscomp.UUCP (Jonathan Stone)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Feelings and discrimination
Message-ID: <777@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 18:42:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 18:42:42 1985
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Reply-To: stone@masscomp.UUCP (Jonathan Stone)
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In article <138@well.UUCP> rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) writes:
>   Having said that I must admit Iam uncomfortable with bi-sexuals.  As
>one person said - they are an enemy in both camps.  In the past I have
>experienced the bi-sexual's ambivalence towards the struggle for gay rights.
>The bi-sexual's readiness to merge back into the heterosexual society when
>the going got rough.

While many bi-sexual's may or may not be "sunshine patriots", there are
few things that can be said of all bi-sexuals to distinguish them from
the remainder of humanity other than that they (we) are sexually
attracted to both males and females (Not ALL anymore than a lesbian is
necessarily attracted to ALL women).  (One does *not* need to sleep
with both sexes to be bi-sexual.  It is *not* what you do, but how you
feel.)  To make sweeping generalizations (as you appear to me to be
doing) runs counter to the very justice which gay activists  are
supposed to be fighting for.  ( note: "gay"-activist may well be a
hazardous term in that it may imply a non-gay would not wish to fight
for gay rights. Opinions?)
	In short, bigotry is ugly regardless of the source or the
recipient.
	Also, have you considered how difficult it is to stick around
when the going gets "rough" if you don't even have the support of those
who are supposedly on your side???