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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
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- Subject: Re: Heterosexuality: What a beautiful choice!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:12:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.184530.25162@dvorak.amd.com> tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
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- > Personally, I'd prefer it if someone with big
- >bucks -- like David Geffin or Elton John -- would start his own
- >foundation and crank out some ads that show gay folk in a positive
- >light.
-
- These folks already give tons of money to AIDS care, education, and
- research. I'm not sure what their feelings are concerning general
- social equality. They probably don't have much real-world exposure
- and what they had growing up was probably forgotten/denied (one reason
- why a lot of people don't get behind youth out-reach programs is
- becuase of denial of their own very painful childhood).
-
- Elton John experienced a very serious drop in sales when he first came
- out. And I can't say for sure, but I'm sure that was combined with
- lots of nasty mail. So he hasn't been totally insulated.
- --
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- - Ronald Hayden
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