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750 WHERE SOLD The Gay and Lesbian Consumer Are our dollars the other route to liberation ? by Gareth Fenley and Matt Montgomery You wouldn’t think homosexuality had anything to do with eyeglasses or mortgages. Yet an opti cal store and at least a dozen realtors are among the perennial advertisers in Southern Voice and other local gay publications. We gay folk buy mostly the same things as our non-gay counterparts, but when we have a choice, we'll >ften spend our money at a business that specifically welcomes us. From the Stonewall Inn to the nearly 100 exhibitors at Atlanta’s 1990 Business Expo, businesses owned by gays or friendly to our community are so important to us that they’re an integral part the community itself. Continued on page 18 —