Here's a good one.
In 1992 I was up in Seattle, where Vince Periello lived, and where I'd literally just met my now-current boyfriend, Josh. We met and had coffee, Josh, 17 years younger than me, lol, I think put Vince off but hey he rolled with the punches. Good for him.
Apparently I later mentioned the meeting in FidoNews, no big deal. NO -- in 1992, posting casually about a same-sex relationship was abso-fucking-lutely not done, but I did this occasionally, utterly dead-panned as it should be. Make the world you want to live in, etc.
And this random other guy Josh writes me, making this claim that he, and "all other people named Josh in Seattle", have been harmed, and he wants an apology!
People are insane.
https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/FidoNet/source/Fido-FidoNet/Fido-pre-12/josh.TXT
tom jennings
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