outing Kinky Friedman

[Forrest Gunter]

Seekers:                                                                     
                        Are all y'all, maybe in later msgs., aware of the 
phenom of adult male Soles hiding behind the anonymity of hanging out in gay 
bars, thereby tacitly but passively acquiescing to being categorized as gay, 
when really they're just too sensitive to be able to handle the 
vulnerability inherent in reaching out, much less in actually competing for 
the affections of other humanoids, of whichever gender or gender 
identification.  It's tough out here.
      Still Telling Noah About the Flood Here From Mt. Arafat,
                              The 3,000 Year Old Man

>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at hotpop.com>
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>Jon,
>
>Yes there are folks who never become sexually
>active, I think of ex mayor Ed Koch of NYC
>who was a Liberal/Republican congressman
>before serving as mayor. But I have a theory
>about that. First, you render Kinsey's famous
>scale from totally hetero to totally homo in a
>very humerous way. You seem to think that
>somewhere on the Kinsey scale there is a place
>for those with no sexual preference at all. Maybe
>on some other scale, not Kinsey's The midpoint of
>his scale, for example, is the perfect bisexual,
>desirous sex with men as much as with women.
>
>My theory is that there the non-sexual person
>has repressed his/her sexuality for one reason
>or another.The sexuality repressed or not is
>a given of the human condition.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster at hotmail.com>
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>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: outing Kinky Friedman
>
>
> >
> > To be heterosexual you have to consort with>
> > women, right? But Kinky doesnt have girl>
> > friends, never has. It seems to me that he has>
> > successfully dealt with his lack of being>
> > attracted by women. Instead he has a cat. >
> >
> > Mike-- You might be right about Kinky, although I know several 
>spinsterish
> > women (the stereotypical old maid school teachers) whose only companion 
>is
>a
> > cat or "mini-dog." Does this make them closet lesbians? I think there 
>are
> > people who are sort of sexually neutral or neuter without  necesarily
>being
> > gays in the closet. I like Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality, that it's 
>a
> > continuum from highly hetero all the way to highly gay, with many stages
>in
> > between.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>