From:	Wraith <wraith@************.COM>
Subject:	Re: Same-Sex Marriage in 205X (kinda rambles, sorry)
Date:	Wed, 13 May 1998 17:32:57 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>


>Erik Jameson wrote:
>Anyway, I think homophobia would be alive and well in Shadowrun. You
>have all the elements to feed the different types of discrimination:
>many poor people, class stratification, poor economy (despite the
>success of the Megacorps their profits do not "trickle down"), social
>unrest, political unrest, lack of education, etc. When you've got
>that much bad news it makes it that much easier for people to start
>pointing fingers.
>
>
>If you're a troll everyone knows you're a troll. And you know who's
>a troll and who isn't a troll (and that goes for the other trolls).
>If you're discriminated against it's pretty easy to find other trolls
>to help you. You could go up to a troll on the street who was a
>complete stranger and say, "Don't eat at that restaurant, they treat
>trolls like shit."
>


The book "Lucifer Deck" kinda delves into this...one of Reporters in the
book is a homosexual, and when the main character finds out she doesn't
really say anything (There are extenuating circumstances, she's a street
kid, and had just confronted him as to why he hadn't tried anything...).

Wraith
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