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- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!solovay
- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: A Better Year Ahead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.223547.26035@netcom.com>
- Organization: People's Front of Judea
- References: <1992Dec19.054427.18239@macc.wisc.edu> <RHAYDEN.92Dec24105330@hqsun2.oracle.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:35:47 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <RHAYDEN.92Dec24105330@hqsun2.oracle.com> rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec19.054427.18239@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- > - Changing the base name from motss to something more
- > obviously related to lesbian, gay, and bisexual
- > interests. We've had very full discussions of this issue
- > several times in the not too distant past. From those
- > discussions, "gay" alone won't fly. There's close to
- > complete consensus, I think, that we need greater
- > inclusiveness than that. Strictly for economy, lots of
- > us say LGB or LGBO to refer to the cohort. But unless
- > you're already familiar with that acronym, it's every bit
- > as opaque as motss. That's why I currently favor
- > soc.lesbigay.
- >
- >I agree. Lesbigay is an obvious word (well, you might have to think
- >about it for a couple of seconds) that is inclusive.
-
- And another big plus: Newbies might try to find this group by
- searching for groups with "gay" in the name, so it behooves us to
- choose a group name with that substring.
- --
- Andrew Solovay
- "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
- I am the freest woman in history."
- --- Camille Paglia
-