Subject: AP: Dutch Gay Phone Book Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:25:04 EST From: Ron Buckmire "Copyright 1994 by AP Reposted with permission from the ClariNet Electronic Newspaper newsgroup clari.news.group.gays. For more info on ClariNet, write to ino@clarinet.com or phone 1-800-USE-NETS." AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- If you want to do business with gay-friendly companies, let your fingers do the walking through the Rainbow Guide. The new listing is being published by the Gay Paper, the Netherlands' largest newspaper aimed at gay and lesbian readers. ``If you want to call a doctor, a plumber or a moving man, you're going to let him into your home, you need to know that they understand your lifestyle,'' Gay Paper editor Henk Krol said Friday. ``It's not our goal to always have something separate for gays. Ideally, if discrimination did not exist, we wouldn't need it.'' Rainbow Guides will be distributed free in May to all 30,000 Gay Paper subscribers and will go on sale in bookshops in the Netherlands and Flemish-speaking northern Belgium. The guide, with more than 5,000 entries, was compiled through responses to a letter sent out to subscribers. --- RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``BOYCOTT CINCINATTI!'' uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910 "Streaking. Mooning. Ballwalking. Leg Shaving. Belly/Navel Shots. Chicken Fights. Butt Biting." -- Chapter headings from the Pentagon's Tailhook report