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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: wanted: Gay/Lesbian professional group in S. Cal
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:12:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.152952.12330@ecst.csuchico.edu> rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU writes:
}A friend of mine is a lesbian, computer professional in Southern California.
}She is looking for groups/activities that allow her to meet similar people.
}I know there is (was?) a group in the S.F. bay area called High Tech Gays.
}Does this group or anything similar to it exist in S. Cal?
}
}Thanks in advance for any contacts you can provide.

Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa has an active GLB special interest group.
For further info on Mensa, check out the FAQ in rec.org.mensa.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: chuck@ssd.kodak.com (Charles S. Collins 726-9461)
Subject: Joe Francis
Originator: chuck@fourier
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:54:44 GMT

APB on Joe Francis.

I'm visiting Europe at the end of this month and was planning to meet
Joe Francis at some point.

I've lost contact with Joe (read: he hasn't responded to recent
email messages.)

Does anyone know Joe's whereabouts?  how I could contact him?

I'm leaving for Amsterdam on September 20, so email me before that
date.

Thanks.
-- 
Chuck Collins				Product Software Engineering
chuck@pixel.kodak.com			Eastman Kodak Company
(716)726-9461				901 Elmgrove Road
					Rochester, NY  14653-5811
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: boobs
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:38:25 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Sep11.014944.14298@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
>Okay, NY-NJ motssers - up until at least a few years ago (last time I 
>was there) there was a "Dyke Lumber Co." off to the left as you entered
>one of the tunnels from the Jersey side. Which tunnel, and is it still
>there?

Lincoln, and it's to the south, which is more or less to the right,
and they have more baseboard, door and crown moldings than you can,
uh, shake a stick at, but they didn't have the one I wanted.

paul
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Hate mail
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:32:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

Colorful language, anyway, if a bit primitive.

-- 

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Jack Hamilton   jfh@netcom.com   P. O. Box 281107   SF, CA   94128-1107
From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Record trivia
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 09:37:09 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Peter de Waal writes:
>The 12 inch version of Popmusic by "M" has two grooves, on one side
>that is (:-).

Not *MY* copy.  Maybe this was some weird EuroThing.  ;-)

(As it happens, I also have the 12" of M's _Moonlight and
Muzak_. ;-)
 
() Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure.
()      -- Unknown
-----
[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty)
Subject: Re: Hate mail
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation -- Denver, Colorado
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:36:14 GMT

shore@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Melinda Shore) writes:
: [about hate-mail from a semi-literate twit who is obviously not a member 
of the cultural elite ]

: Message-Id: <9209090106.AA10465@sugrfx.acs.syr.edu>
: To: shore@theory.TC.CORNELL.EDU
: Subject: Re: The Harrassing Phone Calls Can Stop NOW!
: 
: so, I hope you will realise that you are not some goddess, up there in your
: nest. You are just an internet user. 

I blame this on you of the cabal! If Melinda hasn't yet been appointed a 
goddess, why not? If she has, why hasn't this been publicized? You...you...

INTERNET USERS!!!


Kathy
Xref: sparky soc.motss:38572 soc.bi:12100
From: markm@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.bi
Subject: OR:9 Arguments Available Online
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:40:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.42554
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR


The texts of the arguments for and against Oregon Ballot Measure 9 have
been uploaded to nifty.andrew.cmu.edu.

A single file called OR:9.voters.pamphlet (OR:9.voters.pamphlet.Z also
is there) contains the measure, the arguments for the measure, and the
arguments against the measure.  There are 10 arguments for and 55
against.  They are listed in the order in which they will appear in the
voters pamphlet.

The sizes of the files are:
112315 bytes OR:9.voters.pamphlet
50951 bytes OR:9.voters.pamphlet.Z

They are presently in the pub/QRD/incoming directory waiting for Ron
Buckmire to put them in their final resting place.  Note that you
cannot 'see' the contents of the incoming directory, but if you just do
a 'get' on the right file name all will work until they are moved to
their final location.

A big thanks and huge e-hugs to Patti Beadles who typed in the second
half of the arguments.

_IF_ you *really* want a copy of the arguments and have no way to get
them (e.g.  no Internet-level anonymous ftp or access to ftp-by-mail)
send me email and I will send the arguments to you.  Note that asking
me directly probably won't get the quickest response.  School starts
around here soon and the folks at work are beginning to ask for work :-)

--mark
--
Mark Morrissey           One Hatred to rule them all.  One Hatred to find them.
markm@cse.ogi.edu        One Hatred to bring them all and in the darkness bind
                         them.  In the land of Bigotry where the Shadows lie.

Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jns@wam.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer)
Subject: islands [size of]
Originator: jns@rac3.wam.umd.edu
Keywords: queen, size
 
Organization: Militant Homosexual Lobby, Gay Lifestyle, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:21:21 GMT

John Fisher (jf@threel.co.uk) appears
to take umbrage when I tweak my twin:

> jns@wam.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
> 
> > ... my more clever twin-brother Rog.
> > [Who, by the way, has little else to 
> >  entertain him, living virtually as a
> >  castaway on that itsy-bitsy island.]
> 
> Oh?  And precisely *what* is the *right* size 
> for an island, sweetness?

Why, it should be just large enough 
to reach the shore, I would think.

Snookums.

--jns
From: bfbear@penn.Gwinnett.COM (Penn Collins)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Election Results:  Nick and Nicki
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:27:53 GMT

aberson@enh.nist.gov writes:

> In the biggest upset, media-hound Sheriff Nick Navarro (he of Two Live
> Crew and raids on gay bars) was defeated 53% to 47% by Jim Howard,
> a fundamentalist Christian who has no credentials in law enforcement, in
> the Republican primary.  Howard will be up against pro-gay Ron Cochran,
> who is a virtual shoe-in, in November.
> 
> Also losing was anti-gay Broward County commissioner Nicki Grossman in
> a race against State Representative Peter Deutsch for the U.S.
> Congressional seat vacated by Dante Fascell.  Nicki supported the firing
> of employees who were HIV+ in the early 80's.  Deutsch has been a staunch
> proponent of gay rights in the state legislature.  The district is
> heavily democratic, so Deutsch should make it into the house.
> 
Great! lets hope this is a TREND....it Does seem folks are getting pissed...
lets hope they continue this in November....hopehopehope....
growf
From: black@sybase.com (Christina Black)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Is anyone as angry as I am?
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:57:24 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <92251.072832IO81409@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO81409@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:

|> talk politics with your friends, folks!  it's worth the trouble!
|> (not that i knwo anyone who would vote for bush anyway...  sometiems
|> i feel liek i am preaching to the choir...)

Yes, but you may know people who would vote for no-win third-party
candidates, or who are too disillusioned to bother voting.  You probably
know people who will vote for Clinton, but who might be persuaded to do
more than they are for the campaign, by volunteering or donating money
or just displaying a button, bumper sticker, or yard sign.

One thing I do is make it easy for friends to do something, for example,
by making buttons and bumper stickers available at work.

Another thing you can to is encourage people to register to vote,
especially in places that are likely to be heavily pro-Clinton.  I've
brought a bunch of voter reg forms into the office.  Remember that
anyone who has moved since their last registration must re-register.

-- Chris
black@sybase.com
From: carballo@CS.NYU.EDU (Jose Perez Carballo)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: NYC Metropolitan Opera 09/22, 09/23 tickets
Date: 15 Sep 92 23:25:15 GMT
Organization: New York University



Hi,

I have two tickets I would like to sell before the performances:
	Sept 22, Tue: Un Ballo in Maschera, $53
	Sept 23, Wed: Madama Butterfly, $70

Anybody interested?

    Jose Perez-Carballo
    286 Ninth St. 1H
    Jersey City, NJ, 07302
    Voice/FAX: (201) 656 4633
    carballo@cs.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: accordion bashing
Reply-To: shore@tc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:44:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.074413.21095@wam.umd.edu>, jns@wam.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
> Now that Kathy's signalled the beginning
> of a good accordion bash, [ ... ]

Goody!

Q:  If you drop an accordion and a banjo off the roof
    at the same time, which hits the ground first?

A:  Who cares?
-- 
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
From: phi@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steven Mancini)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Babbling in a fevered haze
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:08:57 GMT
Organization: A fascinating world of Dementia


Motss relevance will make itself clear in a moment or two.

For the past couple days I've been bed-ridden with a fever that peaked at 103.
So, if I start to babble here, please forgive me. :)

Anyway,  one morning as I sat here wondering why I couldn't sleep, I turned
to the boob-tube in some feverish hope of blissful slomber.  I never before
realized that they showed reruns of an old show that I used to watch when I
was younger, _The_White_Shadow_.  (For those of you too young to remember
this show, it's about a white coach who coaches a manily black basketball
team in a high school, in LA, i think)  Anyway, the show used to deal with
discrimination a lot, ya know?  The hassles blacks and whites have, etc, etc..

However, as I sat here watching, I realized that today the topic wasn't
black vs white, mexican vs white, or any other race vs white.  It was
about a supposedly gay student who joins the team.  Now considering this
show was done in the early to mid seventies (I think) I was empressed with
the way they handled the problem.  (Eventhough, they never came out and said 
whether or not the student was actuallt gay.)  By the way, for anyone who cares
Peter Horton, of _thirtysomething_ fame, played the almost-gay student.
Another blast from the present was that one of the background characters was
played by the guy who plays Riecker (sp?) on _Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_.

Anyway, I think I've babbled enough, I think I should go now.
Bye
Patrick
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: foucault@netcom.com (Howard Arthur Faye)
Subject: Re: Publicity
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:15:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <lavga8INN8nv@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.194641.496@HQ.Ileaf.COM> 
>jontom@HQ.Ileaf.COM (J.T. Kittredge) writes:
>> In article <_1sn#vm.foucault@netcom.com> 
>> foucault@netcom.com (Howard Arthur Faye) writes:
>
>[Fascinating details ruthlessly deleted]
>
>> >Motss relevance? Less Than Zero.
>>
>> But is it? I have a dim memory of reading "1876" by Gore Vidal, which
>> is about this very incident. Samuel Tilden was a reform
>> politician from New York, wasn't he? I recall several of Vidal's
>> characters making innuendos based on Tilden's "long-time bachelorhood"
>> and lack of the conventional family life so beloved by Americans.
>
>Oh, a different Tilden.  I saw your summary ("Was Tilden 
>on the bus") and assumed you meant the *other* Tilden, the
>tennis player with a fondness for ball boys.
>
>> How much is there that doesn't have Motss relevance. 
>
>Zip.  Nada.  Gornisht.
>
>> Would so many
>> Motssketeers know so much about this election if Gore Vidal hadn't
>> written a book about it?
>
>Would I know so many fascinating details about this election
>if so many Motssketeers hadn't written post after post about it?
>
>Arne
>
Of course, we might all be talking out of our hats. But I was joking
about the motss-relevance index; nearly everything these days seems
to be imbued with a queer element.
>
And certainly Big Bill Tilden, with his shining eyes and tragic demise,
is motss-relevant.

-- 
Howard Arthur Faye * Panglossian Acres * Box 7 * Littlerock, CA   93543
                         Fax: 805.944.5958


Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: scotts@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Safier)
Subject: Words (was Re: "Lifestyle")
Originator: scotts@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
	<farenebt.716170936@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
	<1992Sep11.053811.8117@reed.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:03:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.053811.8117@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:

   In article <farenebt.716170936@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bri Farenell) writes:
   >>I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what the hell is a
   >>"homosexual lifestyle".

   (for some reason, the term "homosexual lifestyle" doesn't bug me too
   much. "choosing a homosexual lifestyle" pisses me off, as does "oh,
   it's just a lifestyle", but the term "lifestyle" itself has useful
   meaning for me..)

"Lifestyle" does bother me, because my lifestyle is no different than
my heterosexual officemates, nor any number of other people I work
with.

But the word that is my newest pet-peeve is "militant".  It seems that
whenever the popular press describes ACT UP, QN, or any of a number of
other groups, the word "militant" is always used to describe them.

The American Heritage dictionary defines "militant" as
Definition   --adj.  1. Fighting or warring.  2. Having a combative character;
             aggressive, esp. in the service of a cause: a MILITANT political
             activist.

When did we declare war on the straights?  Do all queers and queer
groups have a "combative character"?  Are they all "aggressive"?  

Aren't words fun?

________  __
\      / /  \
 \pink/  \__          -+--+-               Scott Safier    (corwin+@cmu.edu)
  \  /      \  _  __   |  |                Center for Integrated Manufacturing
   \/    \__/ (__/\_)_/|_/|_/                                 Decision Systems
        B0/1 f+ w- g k+ s- m(+) e++             Carnegie Mellon
member, T.S.A.K.C.

"We do not have an anti-gay policy... The problems Boy Scouts are
having are with people trying to get in - the gay community, the
homosexuals, the atheists."
Burford Hill, Western Regional Director, Boy Scouts of America. 
5 June 1992, San Francisco Chronicle

"We don't necessarily discriminate.  We simply exclude certain types of
people."
   Lt. Col. Gerald Wellman, an ROTC instructor at the MIT,
   on the military's ban on gays
   Newsweek, May 25
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Subject: Re: a small flame on rec.gardens
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:57:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.145042.10006@cis.ohio-state.edu> 
 amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
>posting on rec.gardens by vince summers ...
>> My point is that many encouraging and elevating subjects have no group.
>> GNUS is not enlightening people on these subjects.

I honestly wonder about these bozos.  Why should GNUS, or trn, or nn,
or any newsreading package "enlighten" people?  

(Perhaps if your correspondent learned to think, he wouldn't need a
piece of software to do it for him.)

--
Ellen Keyne Seebacher            elle@midway.uchicago.edu
  "It would be interesting to write a computer simulation, along the lines
   of SimCity ... where you control ten zillion little Usenet readers, and
   you try to make the net evolve a collective intelligence."  --Kibo
From: jav@rhiannon.sitka.sun.com (Joyce Vanderpoorten)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Folsom ST Fair
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:25:16 GMT
Reply-To: jav@rhiannon.sitka.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: rhiannon.sitka.sun.com

With all of this talk of the SF Folsom Street Fair, can someone give me the
dates of it for this year.


Thanks
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
Subject: Re: World's First Known Bottom Found in Alps
Organization: insert anything here
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:10:15 GMT

In article <x=sndkn.jfh@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.032257.9109@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>>
>>"The tight-assed Tyrolean scholars were very uncomfortable even having
>>to acknowledge it," _Lambda_ said, "but Otzi is the first known homosexual
>>man that enjoyed being fucked. ...Otzi was the passive partner--of this
>>there is absolutely no doubt...The sperm has been carbon-dated."

>That's silly,  What made them think he enjoyed it? 

	Wouldn't you?

BBC
From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: World's First Known Bottom Found in Alps
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 09:53:18 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
 221.5364@Princeton.EDU><1992Sep11.161921.22612@spdcc.com>
  <1992Sep12.024836.27655@microsoft.com>

George V. Reilly writes:
>Gosh, Steve, you must be truly overwrought.  I never thought to
>see e-hugs from you.
>
>I feel faint: I think I'll go lie down now.  The only thing
>more shocking would be to see e-hugs from Henry Mensch or
>George Madison or Jake Coughlin.  Or Clay Bond.

I'll excuse you for the company you put me in.  ;-)

As it happens, I do send e-hugs quite frequently, in email; I
would do so here more often if more of the people I wanted to send
them to were regular posters.  ;-{)##]

Of course, to me, an e-hug is just a way of saying "I want to
*REALLY* hug you good when I see you in person."

Bear hugs... what a glorious feeling!
 
() It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose.
() That is not weakness, that is life.
()      -- Jean-Luc Picard
-----
[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: dbidwa@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Bidwa)
Subject: Re: accordion bashing
Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:51:36 GMT


|> J. N. Shaumeyer (jns@wam.umd.edu) sez:
|> |> Now that Kathy's signalled the beginning
|> |> of a good accordion bash, I thought I'd
|> |> pause here and say a kind word.  There is
|> |> *one* recording I know which features the
|> |> accordion [in a trio] and *is* worth
|> |> hearing: "The Tango Project" [Elektra/
|> |> Nonesuch].  Brilliant and appropriate
|> |> accordion playing.  Worth having.
|> 
Just to pick nits, that's a bandoneon (sp?), not just any old accordion, so
bash away. "The Tango Project" is pretty good, but Astor Piazzolla's own
records are better (although his "New Tango" record with Gary Burton is
decent, if lightweight). Like I said in an earlier post (geez, two tango
threads in one day -- who woulda thunk it?), "Tango Zero Hour" is the record
to get. (It was originally released in the US by American Clave, and was
rereleased by Pangea (which has since folded, I think, but the record is still
very available).)

And yes, tangos are *hot*, and Piazzolla's nuevo tangos lack any semblance of
the cheese factor that can shoot down tangos' efficacy.
 
Dan
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
Subject: Re: sunglasses and hats
Organization: Eris's Restaurant
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:20:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.191037.16118@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
>Well, I'm also photo-sensitive, aka a sun-sneezer. I almost never sneeze
>fewer than three times in a row, no matter what the trigger is. 

Me too, me too.  And it's more usually like ten or twelve times for me.
And I get migraines too.  Not so bad as during my teenage years, when they'd
hit, oh, maybe once or twice a week (and there was one week where it didn't
stop from Monday evening through Wednesday evening.  At that point they
decided to hospitalise me and pump me full of ergotamine and other fun
stuff...)  it's down to maybe four or five a year now.  But when they come,
they're real doozys.

>Obmotss-relevance (sorta): I've heard that the act of sneezing is, 
>physiologically speaking, similar to an orgasm. 

Yeh - so they say; but how many people do you know that cum when they
walk out into bright sunshine?

				Kay
-- 
6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
Kay Dekker, Dept of Industrial Design, Coventry University, Coventry UK
37 Old Winnings Road, Keresley Village, Coventry   |B0 f t+ g++ k++! s+ e r p!
Phone: +44 203 838668 (work) +44 203 337865 (home) |Deflowerer-of-innocents
From: thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Just how effective are pickup lines?
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:36:18 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

'Pardon me, but your moustache is all mussed up.' (comb it down with
your tongue)

--
John Dorrance  * Don't fuck with Ms. Congeniality *  thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu

	Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders
	     what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.culture.african.american
From: lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Donald Andrew Agarrat)
Subject: Does "Hi, I'm ____" equal "Hi, I support the ____ community"?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:34:16 GMT

I was talking to a friend last night after dinner.  Somehow we started talking  
about Clarence Thomas and I explained my disgust of that whole situation and  
how so many Blacks supported him.  He said, "Well, a least we have someone on  
the bench."  Well, for some reason, I'm not satisfied with him and I think it's  
because he really isn't there to support or represent Blacks at all.  I asked  
Cyril, "Does "Hi, I'm Black" equal "Hi, I support the Black community"?  Some  
Blacks don't even think they are Black!  The problem rises especially when it's  
a public figure.  Blacks look for role models in public figures, I think, more  
so than other communities in this country.  That's sad because most of the time  
we are let down.  We must remember that Blacks who are public figures may or  
may not support the Black community.  Sad as it is, most do not ...

.. and don't be Black and Gay!  I don't even look for role models anymore  
because if it's a Black role model, most of the time he will be heterosexist,  
and if he's Gay (and White), I really doubt if he's looking out for me at all.   
I just have to be the best person I can be.  Saying that Gays have to be  
straight-appearing to succeed in the real world is a slap in the face to me.   
Why do I want to look and act just like the status quo I'm supposed to be  
destroying?  I'm not straight!  Just like I'm not White!  That's what's so  
depressing about being Black and Gay in a straight White world ...

Donald