@***super_nova*** wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
No, he is not right. I was in a group called One Parent Families, and it was my job to put an ad in the personal column to attract new families. So I saw what was in that column.
I was not allowed to put the words "separated parents" in the ad. I was allowed to put divorced or widowed parents with children. The newspaper (and the city) was obviously still very puritan.
Homosexual men who were looking for partners used to say "looking for Guy on the northside who likes the beach" or such. There was not much else they could put in the ad because of those rules.
Just because homosexual men used the word instead of "male" does not mean it meant gay. If the ad said "looking for Guy on the northside who likes the beach" call Peter on 987753, then it was obviously for gay man, if it said "looking for Guy on the northside who likes the beach" call Peta on 987753, it would not have mean gay.
Names were not allowed. Phone numbers were not allowed.
Men were seeking women, women were seeking men, one parent families were seeking other one parent families, other social groups occasionally appeared. Some, like nudist groups, had to word their ads extremely carefully to circumvent the puritan editors. As I said, I was not allowed to use the term 'separated", because they were still married in the eyes of the community.
Men were not called guys then, they were called men, and women were called ladies. There were no columns then for prostitutes as there are now.
The personal column took up a half page of a broadsheet size. The forerunner of online dating I suppose.
Homosexual men seeking other homosexual men used the word "guy". That is how they were able to advertise. (BTW there were not many around then who were not married). End of story. You don't believe it, who cares. Check it out yourself.
