[net.motss] Nomenclature

peterson@vaxwrk.DEC (Bob Peterson) (08/17/85)

Re: "Rich  :-) Vahgner"

"Homosexual" sounds technical and clinical, and therefore colder.  I find it 
a perfectly acceptable term in the right contexts.  I don't find "Negro" an 
acceptable term.  

However it *does* bother me to hear G-/H- used as a noun.  I'm more than just 
gay.  It's a bad habit "society" has to define us that way, as if we can think 
of nothing else but sexual issues.

> Subject: Re: Nomenclature - Gay/Homosexual/Lesbia
Is this Latin for more than one Lesbian?  :-)

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