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OPEN LETTER TO
DOUG COLLINS

Regarding your article on fags.

Why is it you and so many pco-
ple are shallow minded when it
comes down to the gay communi-
ty. When will people grow up and
stop being so ignorant?

When people get offensive when
talking about the gay community,
it is usually because they do not
know anyone that is gay, or they
are not sure as to their own prefer-
ence.

There is now more of an
epidemic of AIDS in the straight
community than the gay communi-

ty. People do not take the time to
gather the facts, instead they read
bits and pieces of misleading in-
formation they find in papers. er
other places.

Then they collect this informa-
don and turn it into misconcep-
tions they carry on to other people.
We then have people who are
scared to be, or breathe, in the
same rooni as a gay person.

The only difference between
straight people and gay people is
their sexual preference. So what!
Leave them alone. People treat
them like some horrible freaks that
are different than the rest of socie-
ty.

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
Retirement homes

Dear Editor:

In the United States we have
seen some most attractive retire-
ment communities designed for ac-
tive adults and independent living,
but afl were planned also for
wheelchair access.

They had large kitchens with low
counters, Jarge bathrooms with
grab bars so a wheelchair confined
person could also function well.
There were facilities for swimm-
ing (including a hoist for
wheelchair users), tennis, gym and
all kinds of leisure activities for
less active retirees.

AH are financially most sue-

cessful. Rossmoor in the S.F. Bay
Area (Walnut Creek) and one in
Laguna Hills, Southern California,
both have thousands of active
couples enjoying their retirement.

Are greater Vancouver real
estate developers tapping this great
potential market of active retirees
sull living in their original family
home, now much too large for
their needs?

When moving they would be
Jooking for a place to suit their
present active life, but somewhere
that would be well designed for
wheelchair use for possible Future
need, or for a spouse now confined

Write on, Doug!

Dear Editor:

Thank goodness, one of your
writers finally got it straight regar-
ding the South Moresby issue.

A pat on the back to Doug Col-
lins for exposing some facts and
putting the matter into its true
perspective.

Yes Doug, you qualify as an ex-
pert as much as the thousands who
have signed petitions to ‘‘save’’
South Moresby; they have never
been there cither.

H.K. Williams
Vancouver

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They are people like you and [,
they have feelings and mental pain
just like anyone else. Who pave
anyone the right in this society to
downgrade these people. or any
other person who has a. prefer-
ence?

Al the insults and ballyhoo in
the world will not make you go
away, so what makes you think the
gay community ever will?

Why was the Noyes case brought
up as an example of gay activity?
Why are you being paid for what
you do?

Written by a nongay person.
Doreen West
North Vancouver

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to a wheelchair — as in our case.

{ would like to know of
availability or construction of
anything like this in greater Van-
couver, particularly on the North
Shore.

Maria George
North Vancouver

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