Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Signs for "Gay" Message-ID: <1102@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 21:32:40 EST Article-I.D.: mit-vax.1102 Posted: Thu Nov 7 21:32:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:20:27 EST References: <131@ingres.ARPA> <1592@bbncca.ARPA> <375@faron.UUCP> <692@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <1373@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 Summary: In article <1373@mtgzz.UUCP> ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) writes: >No, THE FOREVER WAR was by Joe Haldeman. And (as an aside) the main character >when dropped into a world he isn't used to, turns out to be a bit of a >homophobe himself. Heldeman seems to be a bit of a homophobe himself. When asked about his handling of homosexuals in "Forever War", he responded (in a tounge-in-cheek offended tone),"I've never handled a homosexual in my life!" This was followed by the standard, "I've got nothing against homosexuals or anything" line. I don't know, he seems a bit conservative to me. -- -Charles