"gay lifestyle" defined
Scott Amspoker
"lifestyle" when discussing homosexual men and women. I really can't
figure out what is meant by it. At what point does something become
a "lifestyle". If I watch "Startrek" each week, am I living a "Startrek
lifestyle"? Does one have to spend a certain number of waking hours
doing something to declare it a lifestyle? Are we all living a "usenet
lifestyle"?
I decided to define what is meant by "gay lifestyle". It's very simple.
I will take a close look at how I live, work, and play:
On weekday mornings I wake up, shower, eat a bowl of cerial, and drive to
work. On weekend mornings I do the same without going to work.
During the day I work. If my specific occupation is important to the
lifestyle definition, I'm an engineer. On weekends I'll mow the
lawn and run small errands.
In the evening I drive home. Normally I fix something to eat for
dinner. Sometimes I go through a fast-food drive-through. I usually
either rent a video, watch cable, read, or listen to music. Sometimes
I go out to a movie or visit close friends. Saturday nights I
usually play live music with a friend.
At night I sleep with someone I love.
Well, there you have it folks - the "gay lifestyle". Take a look around.
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO *YOU* KNOW ARE LIVING A GAY LIFESTYLE?
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| bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
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Scott Safier
I decided to define what is meant by "gay lifestyle". It's very simple.
I will take a close look at how I live, work, and play:
On weekday mornings I wake up, shower, eat a bowl of cerial, and drive to
work. On weekend mornings I do the same without going to work.
During the day I work. If my specific occupation is important to the
lifestyle definition, I'm an engineer. On weekends I'll mow the
lawn and run small errands.
In the evening I drive home. Normally I fix something to eat for
dinner. Sometimes I go through a fast-food drive-through. I usually
either rent a video, watch cable, read, or listen to music. Sometimes
I go out to a movie or visit close friends. Saturday nights I
usually play live music with a friend.
At night I sleep with someone I love.
Well, there you have it folks - the "gay lifestyle". Take a look around.
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO *YOU* KNOW ARE LIVING A GAY LIFESTYLE?
I don't.
On weekday and Sunday mornings, I wake up and work out, shower and
then bike to work. I am a computer scientist, so I spend much of my
time on usenet. On weekday evenings, I do various political things, or
stay home, watch tv and complain how much I hate politics. :-)
On Saturdays, I wake up and escort at local Women's Health Clinics. I
then go home and watch Dr. Who on TV. I'll then do various household
errands that I procrastinated on, and maybe go out dancing Saturday
night.
Sunday afternoons are spent similar to Saturday afternoons.
At night I hopefully sleep with someone I love.
Is this a gay lifestyle too?
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Jake Coughlin
> At night I sleep with someone I love.
me too. oh, you mean someone *else* I love. shit. i'm not living
a gay lifestyle. sigh...back to the bookstore...
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Queer Without A Cause!
"I find myself suddenly in the world, and I recognize that I have one
right alone: that of demanding human behavior of the other." -- Fanon
Roger B.A. Klorese
>I am a computer scientist, so I spend much of my
>time on usenet.
Funny, I thought that, being a computer scientist, you might be doing
something having even the remotest connection to computer science instead.
Silly me...
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-- J. Foster
Scott Safier
In article <SCOTTS.92M...@MORPHEUS.cs.cmu.edu> sco...@cs.cmu.edu (Scott Safier) writes:
>I am a computer scientist, so I spend much of my
>time on usenet.
Funny, I thought that, being a computer scientist, you might be doing
something having even the remotest connection to computer science instead.
Silly me...
Actually, my job really involves working on HDTV and using it for 3D
applications (like virtual reality). Its just with the volume of news
coming over the net, it seems like I spend much of my time reading
netnews...
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Jim Kingdon
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sc...@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
I decided to define what is meant by "gay lifestyle". It's very simple.
I will take a close look at how I live, work, and play:
Well, let's see. I got up this morning. Made nutbutters with the
biggest homophobe in community. Read my (electronic) mail and wrote
letters to people all about the men I wish I were having sex with.
Ate lunch, which was a quick affair because I was in a hurry to dash
to the computer and read usenet, which I did for a while. Then made
sandals, ate dinner, hung out a bit with Evan from another community
while camping it up (not completely sure why, he's not gay, but for
some reason the mood just struck me), and read soc.motss. Then loaded
a truck with nutbutters while flirting *outragiously* with the driver.
(Well, OK, not as outragiously as I sometimes flirt. Lucy says I am
the biggest flirt he knows. That just goes to show how limited his
experience is). Driver does not flirt back and towards the end makes
a point of mentioning his wife. So I conclude, no he wasn't flirting
with me, he was just being friendly. A bit disappointing I guess but
also a relief because it keeps my life simple. Then read soc.motss.
Not as queer as a typical day in the life of a fruitbat, I guess, but
it will have to do. I suspect that going to the local town and
wrecking the straights wouldn't exactly endear me to the people here
at the commune who are worried about our image among the locals. That
fact almost makes me tempted to do it (one thing the gay movement has
taught me is that you don't gain acceptance by playing by their
rules.) Ed always used to wear a skirt to town, but that's probably
not as bad as snogging right in the middle of main street...
Yours from the middle of rural Missouri,
Jim
Alan Williams
> At night I sleep with someone I love.
Ouch. Looks like I don't have a gay lifestyle, either.
Well, maybe someday. . . .
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Tim Pierce
> In the evening I drive home. Normally I fix something to eat for
> dinner. Sometimes I go through a fast-food drive-through.
>
>Well, there you have it folks - the "gay lifestyle". Take a look around.
>HOW MANY PEOPLE DO *YOU* KNOW ARE LIVING A GAY LIFESTYLE?
None. I never use the drive-through window, you pervert.
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pigs." -- overheard at Sydney Mardi Gras
Karin Baker
<sniff!> Does this mean I don't live the gay lifestyle? .. but what will
I tell my girlfriend (Yes.. I do sleep with someone I love.. I just
wake up very late..)
I'm a student -- what can you expect?
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--Karin
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