tj@sun.uucp (Cal Thixton) (05/30/84)
I think that perhaps the reason many gays look down on bisexuality is because they see these people are no willing to admit that they are gay; that they are only 'half bad'. This was part of my coming-out process when i thought that, "well I'm bi, that's it, of course, that's only half bad, isn't it?" (I claim that bisexuality exists and that it will become a standard where hetero and homo are oddities. Similar to Robert Hienlien's(sp?) "Time Enough for Love", where most people do not find out the gender of their date till they are in bed. Wouldn't that be interesting?) As far as as a prof of mine telling me that Turing was gay, well, I don't think that many people knew about it till recently, at least very widely. Now that you know that Turing is gay, but that he was not mentioned as such in most classes, take this measuring stick and compare it with the multitude of other famous people, black, female, handicapped, etc, and try to imagine just how colored our history in our eyes is. Now that you are there, water it down a couple of orders of magnitude to make it palitable (sp) to the masses for feeding to our children. Now while holding that thought, change your origin to a russian native who has less control over their history books then we (this is an American WGM's perspective on russian life, of course) do. Cal Thixton Sun Microsystems ...decwrl!sun!tj