Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00575)

At 02:16 AM 4/15/96 -0500, you wrote:
>ading got some attention.
>
>Am I missing something?  I get the sense every now and then that certain
>members of the board assume that homosexuality is a great cause of concern
>and consternation to others.
>
>When I think of all the gay Theosophists I know, including -- GASP -- in the
>ULT, I really run into the dozens.  Men and women, black and white, young and
>old.  Bunches and bunches of them.  And at least in ULT I can't recall the
>last person I even suspected of homophobia ...
>
>Is it a secret naughtiness that I should be informed of?  Is there anything
>in the literature that suggests homosexuality is a perfidious crime?  Or even
>a minor offense?  Or even worthy of mention?
>
>Rich:

Part of the above message obviously got eaten by the internet. I am, of
course pleased by what I got to read, but I have to tellyou that in the
Adyar Version of Theosophy and it's American SectionHomophobia is alive, and
very healthily so. Especially among those of the Esoteric Section. This I
know not from hearsay but from very ugly personal expereince.

alexis