Do people actually worry about sexual orientation these days?

I knew a man, many years ago, who had worked for Bill Monroe as a Blue Grass Boy playing guitar and singing lead. He never recorded with with Bill and his stint was in the fifties when Bill was having trouble getting work and keeping a band together due to the introduction of rock and roll.

This friend was gay and when Bill discovered that he dropped him at some Southern mental instution (read insane asylum) where they “treated” him with electric shock therapy. I guess they did that until he said he wasn't gay anymore. Anyway he described it as incredibly brutal. A bunch of us had to rescue him one time after a suicide attempt. Society had really messed with his mind. Oddly enough, he still admired and performed Monroe's music.

Today, like most people I guess, I have quite a few gay friends and relatives and nobody thinks much about it.

But the milk thing still scares me.

      - Mark