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To: Rick Julian who wrote (31063)	2/17/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I've never seen "Alcoholic Pride", or "John Pride" Marches. If people started tying alcoholics or johns to fenceposts and beating them to death I'm sure you would. Gay people tend to define their identity according to sexual preference because the rest of society imposes that definition on them. If we didn't treat them differently and horribly, I doubt they'd feel any need to promote themselves.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (31063)	2/17/1999 9:57:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I can understand Gay Pride marches. First, I should state that one of my sisters is gay, and my best friend in college is homosexual, and I have had a number of gay friends, mostly male. My grandmother may be to blame for my not caring about sexual orientation, she rented out a little house to a devoted gay couple, one of them was in the Air Force, the other, yes, a hairdresser. She let me know that they were together, I can't remember how, it was an awfully long time ago, but she said they were very nice people, and it made her mad that people were intolerant. I realize that homosexuality makes some people uncomfortable, or causes stronger emotions like anger and disgust. I just don't feel it. Similarly, I don't feel anger and disgust at blacks, Jews, orientals, hispanics, and others who are not the same as me. But, as a woman, I can sympathize with the outrage at constantly being excluded, put down, passed by. Women marching for equal rights also have little in common but their genitalia, if you want to reduce it to the absurdity. Gay Pride marchers are not marching about where they like to put their genitalia. They are marching about the prejudice against them because of it.