Reply #13: The only great line from the sitcom "Julia."

[tomreedtoon]

That was Diahann Carroll's 1968 sitcom, the first one starring a black woman not playing a stereotype. She applies to be a nurse on the phone with a cranky but loveable old white doctor played by Lloyd Nolan. Here's the dialog from the pilot episode that kind of applies to the OP:

Julia Baker: Did they tell you I'm colored?
Dr. Chegley: What color are you?
Julia Baker: Wh-hy, I'm Negro.
Dr. Chegley: Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable?

Exactly. Being a lesbian is fashionable, including the angst expressed in the letter. I get tired of people wanting to be "special" by adopting the latest trends. What's the next fashionable move? Dying of heroin overdose? That would insure that your post-mortem albums would get great sales.