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- LETTERS, Page 10After After the Ball
-
- To criticize the gay-rights movement for not overcoming
- centuries of oppression in 20 years is destructive. In their
- book, After the Ball (BEHAVIOR, July 10), Marshall Kirk and
- Hunter Madsen advise gays and lesbians to tone down and blend
- in. But that is what they have been doing for hundreds of years.
-
- Timothy D. Dugdale Duluth, Minn.
-
- Thousands of gay men and lesbians, myself included, live
- ordinary, decent lives and "project an unthreatening,
- respectable image to the straight world." That makes no
- difference to many people with an antigay bias. To imply that
- the fault is ours adds salt to the wound.
-
- Mary Fran Miklitsch Washington
-
- I fear that gays and lesbians are hung up on revenge. After
- so much oppression, they hope to strike back and force
- acceptance by mockingly flaunting differences. Instead they
- provoke more hatred.
-
- Thomas A. Mathews Washington
-
- I find it disgusting that Kirk and Madsen think part of the
- solution to acceptance of gays and lesbians into mainstream
- society is to keep the drag queens and butch lesbians from the
- public eye. They have been, still are and always will be an
- important part of our community. I will not accept my freedom
- from discrimination at their expense.
-
- James Halat New York City
-