When You Meet Gay and Lesbian and Bisexual People:
          Hints for the heterosexual

 1) Do not run screaming from the room. This is rude.
 
 2) If you must back away, do so slowly and with discretion.

 3) Do not assume they are attracted to you.

 4) Do not assume they are not attracted to you.

 5) Do not expect them to be as excited about meeting a
    heterosexual as you may be about meeting a L/B/G person.

 6) Do not immediately start talking about your boy/girlfriend
    or husband/wife in order to make it clear that you are 
    straight - they probably already know.

 7) Do not ask them how they got that way. Instead ask
    yourself how you got the way you are.

 8) Do not assume that they are dying to talk about being
    Lesbian, Bisexual or Gay.

 9) Do not expect them to refrain from talking about being
    L/B or G.

10) Do not trivialize their experience by assuming it is
    a bedroom issue only. They are L/B/G 24 hours a day.

11) Do not assume they want to be treated like the 
    opposite sex.

12) If you are tempted to tell them they are taking the
    easy way out, don't.


--
Tina M. Wood       ____  | "And when the walls begin to
al715@yfn.ysu.edu  \  /  |  fall, can't hold back the joy
EQUALITY is not a   \/   |  that love will conquer all."            
"special right"!         |             --Three Dog Night