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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Feeling out of place
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.021734.5065@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:17:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov16.021734.5065
- References: <memo.731853@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1992Nov6.141643.16848@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Nov13.192345.4639@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
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- In article <1992Nov13.192345.4639@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- >There are definitely two distinct sets of lesbigays in Cambridge - the
- >politically motivated, and the others. I never, ever, get involved in the
- >politics of sexuality - hence never turning up to the abovementioned meetings.
- >I see sexuality as something to do/be, rather than something to hold political
- >opinions about. OK, so there are prejudicial bits of legislation out there,
- >but I know plenty of heterosexuals who dislike them just as much as
- >lesbigays, but are put off by political hackery from supporting the cause.
-
- There may be some kind of spectrum here. It sounds like I might rate as
- "political" compared to you, but as "apolitical" compared to folks
- I know who go to Queer Nation and a couple of other meetings every week.
-
- I tend to be a bit more low-key, and I guess I'm trying to work in the
- long haul, not go for a fast burn-out; but I've got a political/ideological
- outlook.
-
- One part of this may be that I came out, and identified with the gay/lesbian
- and feminist communities some time back, and having this as part of
- my public identity even when my interpersonal sex life has been non-existent
- has shaped my outlook.
-
- I've met 20 year olds who by their own accounts have had more sex with more
- people than me (at nearly 40), but there is a kind of accumulation of
- self-assurance over all this time being out.
-
- I give money to the ACLU, and the Speak-Out program and other gay rights
- membership organizations. And I'm working in some forums like the churchs
- which don't always have immediate payoffs and may not offer dramatic
- confrontations like civil disobedience (most of the time). But I think
- there's a lot of politics/ideology and even theology woven into this all.
-
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