I forgot to add that my optimistic outlook for healthy discussion of gay issues on these boards was momentarily suspended when I read a curious (and seemingly very angry) post by ETPOS01 the other day in the OMNI Forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/002309.html

His comments about Matthew Shepard were especially strange.

On the other hand, a current thread discussing UAL's apparent withdrawal of funding for the Boy Scouts of America is very encouraging so far:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004868.html

So, I'm still wondering. Would anyone care to start a gay-specific thread in an existing forum just to see what happens?

[This message has been edited by blairvanhorn (edited 07-19-2001).]