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	<title>Comments on: Author Dominick Dunne dies at 83</title>
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		<title>By: James M. Martin</title>
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		<dc:creator>James M. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description>It bugs me that you write, &quot;long rumored to be gay.&quot;  The last I looked, the overall abbreviation for the sexual minorites was GLBT, and I believe the &quot;B&quot; stands for bisexual.  It would seem to me that if Dunne had a daughter, he had to have had sex with a woman.  This would make him something other gay, even if, in fact, he was anything other than heterosexual.

Perhaps, like Gore Vidal, you believe that &quot;there is no such thing as a bisexual, there are only uncommitted heterosexuals,&quot; although I suspect Gore was operating in his usual mode as agent provocateur.  He surely knew he was &quot;funnin&#039;,&quot; as there are, demonstrably, such things as bisexuals.  During the &#039;60s, gay rights advocates like Carl Wittman were saying that out gay men refused to refer to themselves as &quot;bisexuals&quot; because it carries the implication they&#039;re somehow better than gays.  It appeared to Wittman as if it were like saying, &quot;Yes, I go to bed with women [or men], but at least I go to bed with men [or women], too.&quot;  

Both Vidal and Wittman ignored the fact that human sexuality is a vastly varied thing, which is why Kinsey put it on a spectrum from completely straight to completely gay, with completely bisexual in-between.  If Dunne produced a daughter through sexual congress with a female, he is by definition bisexual.  That plenty of gay men have children is besides the point.  They are bisexual, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It bugs me that you write, &#8220;long rumored to be gay.&#8221;  The last I looked, the overall abbreviation for the sexual minorites was GLBT, and I believe the &#8220;B&#8221; stands for bisexual.  It would seem to me that if Dunne had a daughter, he had to have had sex with a woman.  This would make him something other gay, even if, in fact, he was anything other than heterosexual.</p>
<p>Perhaps, like Gore Vidal, you believe that &#8220;there is no such thing as a bisexual, there are only uncommitted heterosexuals,&#8221; although I suspect Gore was operating in his usual mode as agent provocateur.  He surely knew he was &#8220;funnin&#8217;,&#8221; as there are, demonstrably, such things as bisexuals.  During the &#8217;60s, gay rights advocates like Carl Wittman were saying that out gay men refused to refer to themselves as &#8220;bisexuals&#8221; because it carries the implication they&#8217;re somehow better than gays.  It appeared to Wittman as if it were like saying, &#8220;Yes, I go to bed with women [or men], but at least I go to bed with men [or women], too.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Both Vidal and Wittman ignored the fact that human sexuality is a vastly varied thing, which is why Kinsey put it on a spectrum from completely straight to completely gay, with completely bisexual in-between.  If Dunne produced a daughter through sexual congress with a female, he is by definition bisexual.  That plenty of gay men have children is besides the point.  They are bisexual, too.</p>
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