thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) (04/05/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Hello, there was/is a lot of flack in this newsgroup about gays being "too noticeable". Please consider that no matter how open the world gets about homosexuality, 90% of us are straight, so heterosexual relationships are the norm. I don't like homophobia, and I hate violence against gays, but pardon me for staring a little when I see a gay couple. THe gays at Reed are pretty open, which is really nice....but when I followed 2 of my gay male friends up a stairway and they were getting touchy-feely, I couldn't help but notice. I remember having homosexuality explained to me when I was about six (i.e around 1970). A neighbor of ours, a very prominent man, was one of a group arrested in a department store for soliciting sex in the restroom. Since I was starting to read the paper, and Mr. C. was mentioned in a front-page article about the bust, my parents deemed it necessary to explain to me what was going on. They said that while they found nothing wrong with homosexuality, many of the neighbors did, and that I shouldn't talk about it. I guess I was lucky to be raised in such an accepting atmosphere. I like most of the gay men and women that I've met. You seem to be a lot more ethical than many straights. By the way, I'm not entirely heterosexual, in feelings if not experience. Ann Muir-Thomas "I'll be mellow when I'm dead!"-weird Al via Tony F.