[mod.motss] Summary of newsgroup 'mod.motss'

msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) (01/23/85)

Summary of newsgroup: net.motss.
Author of summary:  Mike Simpson (msimpson@bbncca.{arpa,uucp})
Date of summary: January 22, 1985
Dates of Articles Covered:  January 8-21, 1985
Approved: for sdyer@bbncca.uucp by msimpson@bbncca.uucp

"Net.personals" (4 articles)

Moderating Satellite News (5 articles)
	-- how feasible is computer screening for obscenity or
		libelousness?
	-- should this discussion continue in 'net.motss'?
	-- how about the difficulty of finding libelous speech
		couched in reviews?

Solitary gayness (2 articles)
	-- how one is treated differently when alone 
	-- "Art of Crusing"

Campus support groups (1 article)

"Jason's Guided Tour of Gay Diversions" (2 articles)
	-- where to go and what to avoid in Boston

Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1 article)

Homosexuality and the Bible (2 articles)
	-- where is God's stamp of approval/disapproval?

Oklahoma anti-gay law (1 article)
	-- Supreme Court to review state law barring teachers
		from 'espousing, professing or teaching'
		homosexuality

Jewel In the Crown (1 article)
	-- homophobia in British India

"La Cage Aux Folles" (2 articles)
	-- does it poke fun at or put down the gay lifestyle?
	-- does it play to some (more subtle) anti-gay
		prejudices?

Time's "Man of the Year" (1 article)
	-- opinions requested re:should it be someone other
		than Peter Ueberroth?

Epidemology of AIDS (1 article)
	-- continuation of series, including statistics and
		references

Movies
 Review:  IMPROPER CONDUCT (1 article)
	-- "vices" in Castro's Cuba
	-- interviews with emigres

 Review:  FOURTH MAN (3 articles)
	-- exciting, interesting Dutch movie with strange plot
	-- lots of misogynistic, hallucinogenic sections
	-- sexuality (of all kinds) "played with" in movie

 Preview: THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (1 article)
	-- political/psychological/romantic/homosexual novel
		being made into a movie
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