> On a related topic and for those interested, there was an article in the New York > Times magazine a few weeks ago about the sizeable lesbian > audience in folk music.
One of the bands that plays a lot around here, Saffire, has a mostly lesbian following. I've seen them live a number of times and while I noticed that, it certainly is not any kind of issue. Ani Difranco of course is even more so...when I saw her in Asheville last year, there was me (45-year old white bread guy),the Italian couple I was with, and 5,000 young girls with shaved heads and misc body jewelry. Again, it didn't bother me, and my presence didn't seem to upset anyone, though they probably thought I was a narc! :~) We were all just grooving to the music, and let's face it, in terms of relationship issues, they are the same whether the sexes are opposite or the same. Paradoxically, it is BECAUSE of my Christianity that I love and accept all people and hope for the same in return. But it is often within the confines of the Christian church where minds seem to be the most closed. Just another reason why the world should be more like a JONIFEST!! :~) Bob NP: Tom Waits, "Jockey Full of Bourbon", Chicago Theatre 8/27/99, (Pally, I'm thinking about you!)
