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Gay. We've taken a word that originally meant happy, and used it in place of homosexual until everyone accepts it as meaning that. Surely we can take that same happy word and make it include bisexuals, transgendered people and anyone else who wants to be included.

This is written by a woman, a lesbian, and my partner, also a lesbian, agrees. We're activists, feminists and lesbians, yet we think it's just fine for us and other people to say the word gay and mean all of us: homosexual men and women, bisexuals and transgendered people. If we, two womyn, two lesbians in

our forties, think it's okay for publications, speakers, and writers to simply say gay to mean all of us, then perhaps there are other women out there who agree.

This doesn't mean that we have to give up all the other terms. People can continue to use queer and two newer terms: lesbigay and translesbigay.

But let's use gay. It's short, sweet and

easy.

Say it to mean the whole community. If we can take a word and make it ours, change its meaning, affect the way it's used, why not the word gay?

Kathy Worthington Salt Lake City, Utah

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