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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Out at work
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:24:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 01:24:09 1984
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Dionysus' comments bring up a question of what it means to be "out"
at work.

Sexual preference is truly irrelevant to performing your job well,
and my own feeling is that making an issue about it, either through
extreme secrecy or "flaunting it", is just extra baggage that you
have to lug around.  Naturally, everyone has a definition of just
what "flaunting it" means.

I don't have any desire to have a picture of my lover on my desk,
but, then, I think I'd feel no different if I were married (to a
woman, that is.)  People who work with me know that I'm gay, and
there's a larger group who have read or heard of net.motss.
Probably most don't know at all, which is just fine.  Strangely,
I haven't been confronted too often with the company-sponsored
bring-your-SO affairs: one of us has usually been out of town.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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