From: lfoard@hopper.Virginia.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
Organization: ITC/UVA Community Access UNIX/Internet Project
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In article <1993Apr16.200354.8045@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy) writes:
>
>In article <C5K5LC.CyF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@hopper.Virginia.EDU (La
>wrence C. Foard) writes:
>>In article <15378@optilink.com> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>From the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, April 15, 1993, p. B2:
>>>
>>>    Male sex survey: Gay activity low
>>>
>>>    A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough
>>>    examination of American men's sexual practices published since
>>>    the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, shows about 2
>>>    percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and
>>>    1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
>>>
>>>    The figures on homosexuality in the study released Wednesday
>>>    by the Alan Guttmacher Institute are significantly lower than
>>>    the 10 percent figure that has been part of the conventional
>>>    wisdom since it was published in the Kinsey report.
>>
>>1) So what?
>
>So there are less gays, then the gays claim.

Last I checked I was one person, I haven't even been elected
as a representative for "gaydom". Should I ascribe every thing
you say as representing every member of the straight community?

>>2) It will be interesting to see the reaction when 2.5million queers
>>   gather in Washington DC. After all if there are only 6million of
>>   us then this is an event unprecidented in history...
>>
>
>Dream on.  Abortion and African-American Civil rights rallies don't even bring
>in half of that.

Thats the point. If there are several million queers in DC you had better
start wondering about the validity of the study.

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