From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1993Apr17.022222.28105@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st923336@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (BLORT! eeeep! Hwaaah.) writes:
# 	Actually, I was rather surprised to see an article on this subject
# (i.e. the "new, inproved" survey saying that roughly 1% of men are gay)
# on the front page of The New York _Times_ recently (I think it was
# on Thurs, 15 April).  The headline was something to the effect of 
# "New Survey Finds 1% of Men Are Gay"
# 
# 	I was shocked, not because the New York _Times_ was running a story
# on a sex survey (although that was part of it), but because they thought
# that this news was actually important enough to warrant front page space.
# I mean, how many people actually CARE how many people are gay (as long as
# you know how to find/avoid them if you want to)?  I don't.  

If you don't care, why was so much effort put into promoting the
10% lie?  Because it was important to scare politicians into
obedience.

# 							-Matt
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