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- From: bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth)
- Subject: Re: A hug request and a general growl at the world
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.201310.17380@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Originator: bbooth@bcrks6
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- Reply-To: bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth)
- Organization: BNR, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- References: <C0BGtA.Bu8@news.udel.edu> <C0C2ED.Cxr@news.udel.edu> <93004.123448DICKSONE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:13:10 GMT
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- Ellen <DICKSONE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> wrote:
- > James Dilmore wrote:
- > >I am quite annoyed with being closetted. I want to be out and sincere with the
- > >people who I meet and know.
- > >I have a question for the bunch. Where does the balance lie between discretion
- > >and safety on one hand and sincerity and openness on the other?
-
- Well, Diane's more "out" than I am. She'll tell anyone. She doesn't care
- who knows, and any new friends she meets she'll tell them before they make
- assumptions. Me, I'll only mention it on a need to know basis... if they
- don't need to know, I won't tell them. ;)
-
- > oh oh I know that one... *ouch* I came out to my family about 6 years ago
- > and that was quite hellish, though in the end things turned out ok. My parents
- > were incredibly strict Catholics who have (partly due to me) mellowed
- > somewhat.
-
- Diane's parents haven't taken the news too well (mine don't know, yet).
- I don't know if it's because she's bi or because she's bi, she has a
- female lover and we have an open marriage. Maybe it's just a little
- too much for her parents to handle at once. Her folks are religiously
- homophobic, which doesn't help (religiously homophobic is my term for
- someone who thinks homosexuality is wrong because the bible says so).
- We were amazed though that they didn't outright disown her.
-
- > I haven't actually dated a woman in a long time, and I get the
- > feeling that my parents have assumed that `it was a phase'
-
- I think Diane's parents were hoping that's what is was... that got shot
- down when she told them she was planning on marrying her lover. :)
-
- Thank goodness for being 3000 miles away from them. ;)
-
-
- Brand new 1993 hugs to all,
-
- __o Brad Booth | "If somebody feels really good
- _`\<,_ Bell-Northern Research | about who they are, they don't
- (*)/ (*) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | feel threatened by what other
- ---------- bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca | people are." - Dr. M. Rubenstein
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