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- From: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey)
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- Subject: Re: Melissa Etheridge Comes Out - Yaahoo!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 05:45:00 GMT
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- >murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy) writes:
- >> Etheridge coming out is hardly a surprise. Last year, in a
- >> published interview, she gave her reasons for not coming out.
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- >> Heterosexuals do not, in general, enumerate reasons they aren't
- >> coming out... %-)
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- >My post was an expression of delight that she had come out
- >("Yahoo!") not surprise. I previewed her London concert last
- >autumn, in The Pink Paper in terms that were as broad an alert to
- >our readers that she was one of us as I could without outing her.
- >I was also invited to the pre-concert bash, and could have had an
- >interview with her too, but I guessed that the whole thing would
- >have been made really difficult by her not wanting to be out and
- >so gave up those chances, which would have been great pleasures
- >for me on a personal level. Now that she is Out we can start to
- >build her following generally here, and I can look forward to her
- >next visit with unabashed enthusiasm.
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- Diane
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