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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: opportunity,the net,and language
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:37:51 EDT
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> >     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.
> 
> 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.
> 

Here, here, Ken.  For what it's worth (which admittedly is not much)
net.motss was always intended as a forum for both gay and non-gay people,
always in the context of sharing information for better understanding.  It
need not mean "defending" anything.  Frankly, given the small volume of
postings, I'd rather read an article from a single "heterosexual" than wait
for the supposed-thousands of read-only gay people to speak up.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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