Slother hand PUT it on the front page. Thanks to David Mitchell a great discov- ery lias been made: your man Doug is a repressed queer, Sorry about nor having dealt with this news item before. I have been making speeches and warding off attacks from the Evil Empire over in Victoria. A chap can’t be everywhere. Mighty Mitch (“former MLA and historian,” y’know) fore the mask off The Great Pretender in a column that appeared in these pages under the heading, Winners, Losers and Homophobes. “Apparently,” wrote he, “Sigmund Freud was right. Sen who say they hate gays are likely to have homosexual tendencies.” His source was some obscure academic who has ‘~. produced a “study.” And Mitch said he has Jong won- ~ dered about blokes like me. and Trevor Lautens, who = “hate gays” and go on about © AIDS. . ‘Ignoring for the moment that I have never said I hate ” pays (one can’t expect “for- xer MLAs-and historians” to et everything right, any ore than one can expect .. Rafe Mair to get anything righ), he may have a point. “Didn't Extra West run my’splendid column on the ‘Vancouver Aids Circus? Would the homo. paper have ° Dear Editor: & Ji In. response. to a letter from, Woo Jin Kim, West Vancouver, published Friday, Aug. 23, “Swearing gives - Canadians poor image.” It saddened me to read your letter. ‘Please believe me that you have done the right thing by not retaliating. As a new arrival from another part of the world, { am also very dis- - appointed at the behavior and “:-bad language — (normally ~~ shouted), which one hears on a daily basis. Anger is _expressed loudly. > Tfithelps you and other newcomers, if half the Canadians have: no self- constantly respect,’ it’s not your prob- lem. ee Their behavior and lan- guage is their short-coming, “not yours. Be happy. Hy. Gordon’ Nerth Vancouver | i @ done that if they hadn’t known all along that I was one of them? They even paid me for it and if there were space you would see a picture of the cheque. As it is, Il] frame it for posterity. The hate mail homos who deluged this newspaper with death threats and promises to cut off my knackers were also in on the secret. And what really upset them was the belief that they had a traitor in their midst. Mitch, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you'll have to do better than quoting some guy who quotes old Sigmund. Old Sigmund was a Jewish witch doctor who ranted on about how sons wanted to go to bed with their mothers and feared castration by their fathers. He also told us we should pay attention to our dreams, just like that stuff in the Old Testament. in their You have your profs, Mitch, and I have mine. Writing recently in the British medical journal The Lancet, a top professor of medicine in Britain described psycha- analysis as “a scientific fairy tale.” And he is only one of many, Freud was debunked years ago. I always knew that Freud was a fraud. Most shrinks are just as dotty as the people who lie on their couches awaiting Nirvana. Freudianism is shrinking. But let’s not be too serious. Has Grey Eyes been living these past 47 years with a poofter? An interesting thought. Remind me to ask her about it. Meanwhile, I'm off to hold hands with Trev. eee It being laugh time, here's an item from the New South Africa, It comes from a hospi- tal news sheet called Sick News which some people (TRVLORIOTIVE? TUNE-UP SPECIALISTS B.C.A.A. - A.R.A. ~ APPROVED | AirCare - Gov. Certified #50222 | TALKING TUNE-UPS - FUEL SYSTEMS - ELECTRICAL veticw races OUR 38TH YEAR e176 PEMBERTON AVE. N.VAN, PLE Sub SLEEP SYSTEM f you the best sleep of B your life. # Queen from *740 complete B King from 950 complete 299-9000 * CONSULTATION (7415 {5 —F 985-7435. 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