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- From: kraig@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kraig Count)
- Subject: Re: coming out to my parents
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.143115.19913@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <s882916.721962102@otto> <1992Nov18.153149.23717@ctp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:31:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.153149.23717@ctp.com> sthor@ctp.com (Sarah Thornburg) writes:
- >Okay, so here's a question - why is it that gays and lesbians seem to
- >believe that every one who is *not* het shouldn't *look* het. I know, I
- >know, it's yet another way of openly declaring one's sexuality, just like the
- >T-shirts and pins etc. But why is it that we are seen as somehow *wrong*,
- >or at least not serious about being lesbigay if we look just like the
- >average het on the street? I mean really! I look like the average
- >girl-next-door, and quite frankly, that's also the kind of woman I am
- >attracted to. I don't believe that makes me any less bi than someone who
- >"looks" lesbigay.
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- I don't know. I appear like any other guy. In fact, i don't ever think
- that I have run across any LGB person who thought that if you were
- out you had to be **OUT** (ie.. in looks)
-
- If you bi, gay, or lesbian, it dosn't matter how you look ar act
- you are still the same.
-
- - kraig
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