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Originally Posted by dissention
Yeah, but think of the times. To admit that you were gay back in those days, especially if you were a person of reasonable power, or to even admit to having sex with other men, is akin to someone saying today that they like sex with kids. The animosity and hatred that people had for gays back in the early eighties was just as bad as the hatred of black people in the Southern states. I think society contributed a LOT to the ways people like "Ray Cohen" viewed things, it was hammered into them that "fags" were pieces of ****, that they amounted to nothing. It really was sickening and it still goes on today, though to a much lesser extent.
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So true - look at the former Gov. of Jersey. I am not condoning what he did because it was wrong, but the FAR larger question is if society would have been willing to accept him - he would have never been put in that situation in the first place
