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- From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Ugly
- Message-ID: <69964@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 10:43:40 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <69872@cup.portal.com>
- <1992Nov20.151556.8993@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- Anthony Berno writes:
- >Anthony Berno also writes:
- >>Bears have at least some exposure in mainstream gay media
- >
- >George Dalton Madison writes:
- >> No, we don't.
- >
- >Max Rochlin writes:
- >>Face it, George, bears are uninteresting to mainstream gay media.
- >
- >George Dalton Madison writes:
- >> This simply isn't true. _HONCHO_ has done a couple of
- >> "bear" oriented issues...
- >
- >So, are we MARGINILIZED, or NOT???
-
- We are. One magazine doing a couple "special" issues in the
- space of two years isn't the same thing as having Bears (or
- whatever) appear in the magazine on a REGULAR basis. The
- point I was making here is that the *response* to those (dare
- I say it) "Bear Ghetto" issues should have pounded through
- The Clue that there is a regular market for that sort of thing.
-
- () I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
- () -- Mae West
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- [> 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 <]
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