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	<title>Comments on: Just Plain Gay, and Sick of It</title>
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		<title>By: Williamson Henderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Williamson Henderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Gay&quot; is the correct word as all the prior writers have stated.  We are very pleased that the media, et al. are using the general and inclusive word &quot;Gay&quot; and not the sectional and, to most Gay males, divisive &quot;L&quot; word.  The main and impressive facts are that Christine Quinn is both a woman and Gay (notice the capital &quot;G&quot;; we are a people)!  Those are historic for a Council Speaker or any City leader.  

BTW, Glick was not &quot;strong&quot; -- she ran as an &quot;openly Gay&quot; candidate and in her Greenwich Village and Chelsea districts that led to her winning.  Likewise, Duane for the State Senate.  Sometimes, it pays to be Gay!  In contrast, Quinn won citywide not from &quot;Gay districts&quot;.  That&#039;s strong! 

Proudly,
Williamson Henderson
STONEWALL Veterans&#039; Association</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Gay&#8221; is the correct word as all the prior writers have stated.  We are very pleased that the media, et al. are using the general and inclusive word &#8220;Gay&#8221; and not the sectional and, to most Gay males, divisive &#8220;L&#8221; word.  The main and impressive facts are that Christine Quinn is both a woman and Gay (notice the capital &#8220;G&#8221;; we are a people)!  Those are historic for a Council Speaker or any City leader.  </p>
<p>BTW, Glick was not &#8220;strong&#8221; &#8212; she ran as an &#8220;openly Gay&#8221; candidate and in her Greenwich Village and Chelsea districts that led to her winning.  Likewise, Duane for the State Senate.  Sometimes, it pays to be Gay!  In contrast, Quinn won citywide not from &#8220;Gay districts&#8221;.  That&#8217;s strong! </p>
<p>Proudly,<br />
Williamson Henderson<br />
STONEWALL Veterans&#8217; Association</p>
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		<title>By: Hilary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hilary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True, semantics, in the sense that there have presumably been an untold number of politicians who have hidden their sexual preferences. Former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey is just one recent example.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, semantics, in the sense that there have presumably been an untold number of politicians who have hidden their sexual preferences. Former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey is just one recent example.</p>
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		<title>By: hola</title>
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		<dc:creator>hola</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok, she&#039;s gay.so what!?
I mean, after all, who cares.If she&#039;s good she&#039;d good.
That&#039;s all we should be worried about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, she&#8217;s gay.so what!?<br />
I mean, after all, who cares.If she&#8217;s good she&#8217;d good.<br />
That&#8217;s all we should be worried about.</p>
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		<title>By: semantics</title>
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		<dc:creator>semantics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well, no, you&#039;re totally missing the point.  of course christine is open.  it&#039;s a politically charged adjective meant to imply that there have been other public servants in the past who must have been gay, but now is the time when we begin to own our difference instead of hiding it.  

clearly, gifford miller and peter vallone sr. aren&#039;t gay.  that&#039;s more why the use of the term in this context is annoying.  but to call deborah glick the first openly gay member of the state legislature is perfectly reasonably; probably somewhere in the legislature&#039;s extensive history, somebody was a homo; deborah was the first one strong enough to be open about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well, no, you&#8217;re totally missing the point.  of course christine is open.  it&#8217;s a politically charged adjective meant to imply that there have been other public servants in the past who must have been gay, but now is the time when we begin to own our difference instead of hiding it.  </p>
<p>clearly, gifford miller and peter vallone sr. aren&#8217;t gay.  that&#8217;s more why the use of the term in this context is annoying.  but to call deborah glick the first openly gay member of the state legislature is perfectly reasonably; probably somewhere in the legislature&#8217;s extensive history, somebody was a homo; deborah was the first one strong enough to be open about it.</p>
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