Letters, May 14, 1979

Coming Out

To the Editors:

Call them homosexuals, call them gays [April 23], call them anything you wish. Here in Anita Bryant country we call them queers, and that's what they are.

Dee Keeton

Kingston, Okla.

If I had encountered such objective writing years ago it would have made my inevitable coming out much easier.

Greg Kucera

Seattle

Why has such a pleasant, happy, descriptive word as gay become a synonym for sex and perversion?

Wesley W. Wertz

San Diego

If God had wanted homosexuality to exist, there would have been Adam and Adam or Eve and Eve, but not Adam and Eve.

Geoffrey L. Baer

Oswego, N. Y.

A disgusting,...

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