don@allegra.UUCP (Don Mitchell) (04/24/85)
There are indeed people with abnormal fear of homosexuals. In grad school, there was one such fellow in our dorm. One evening when a group of us went to a movie (in Hollywood), this guy made us drive him from the movie to a near-by gas station so he could pee. He was afraid to go in the washroom at the theater because there were gays! This same guy had intense hostility toward women and minorities, and my impression was that it was all rooted in fear.
schuster@Shasta.ARPA (04/26/85)
I heard my best homophobia story the other day. A friend of mine who is stationed in Arizona went to San Francisco with his roommate to go to a wedding in San Jose. They stayed at a friend of theirs who was stationed in SF. As an aside, the roommate was really freaked out about being in San Francisco. Ed said he was looking around every corner terrified that he was going to run into a gay man. But the best story was one the woman they stayed with told. She said she knew a Captain stationed in the Presidio (the big military base in SF) (for nonmilitary folks, a captain is supposed to have had a college education or the equiv), who had spent six years in the Presidio and never left for fear of running into (gasp!) a homosexual. People like that should be committed. Oh to see the smiles in the Castro during Fleet Week. :-) -- Jay