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From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 10:04:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 10:04:01 1984
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	>	American women ( as in US) have no problem dancing
	>together. ...And I've never seen anyone look askance. I think
	>you (Sophie) overstate the case a bit. Homosexuality is not
	>assumed when two women dance together.

I am very sorry to report that Sophie has NOT overstated the case. A very
homophobic feeling has been springing up. I first noticed it with grade
school and high school students taunting each other with "faggot", "lezie",
etc. It seems to have spread.
I am relieved to hear that the whole continent isn't affected. I had assumed
it was, because my young brother and sister went to high school in southern
Pennsylvania and they seemed to have the same attitudes.
I will back off a bit and say that not EVERYONE would assume the women were
lesbians but at the very least they would probably get a bit of "teasing"
that they were.

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