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From: lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore)
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Subject: Re: Hands across the border
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 14:31:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 14:31:12 1984
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I noticed something unusual about the "disco" scene in Western Canada when I
was visiting some friends in Calgary last year.

Here on the East coast of the U.S. it is very common to see women dancing
with their girlfriends when a good song comes on and there are no guys
asking them to dance.  However, when I was in Calgary, (the same bar, once on
a weekday night, and once on a weekend night), I noticed that this NEVER
happened.  The bar's clientle was early to mid-20's.  I asked the three women
and two men in our party why this was, and they said (and I paraphrase):
"If two women were dancing with each other, they'd have to be gay."

When I told them that two women dancing together here in the NY/NJ area is
common, and not a sign of female homosexuality, they just gave me a
disbelieving, puzzled look.

Now would someone tell me if all of western Canada has these attitudes, or
just Calgary.  Or does the western U.S. (e.g. Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, etc.)
also have a similar attitude about women dancing together.  By the way, I'm
reffering to fast dances, not slow ones.  When I was in Toronto, back in 1980
I think I recall women dancing together.  Is there a geographic difference?



					Jim Collymore