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- From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: coming out to my parents
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 00:24:00 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
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- In article <1992Nov19.143115.19913@athena.cs.uga.edu>, kraig@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kraig Count) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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
- |>
- Well, this may *seem* to contradict my earlier rantings about abuse (verbal)
- from gay men (the *GIRL* thing), but I agree quite a bit with Kraig. They
- (gay men) have never suggested that I should *LOOK* gay.
-
- <sheepish exit> from this discussion
- *hugs*
- js
-