Gay, or perceived gay by a drunk, it's still a hate crime.

[ravan]

Today was the first I'd heard of this (also here and here.)

Fucking horrific. Equally nasty is the burying of the story, the "oh, it can't be a real hate crime because the victim wasn't really gay." type of crap, and the "gay panic" defense.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

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Re: a blast from the past - namely, san jose and staying in your house

[ravan.livejournal.com]

The two older boys are Frankie and Tommie. The younger two girls are Collette and Speckles.

Re: a blast from the past - namely, san jose and staying in your house

[mrshannibal.livejournal.com]

the ones in the icon:

the furry, fat one is JOEY
the longer, sleek one is BOO

they're both girls...

do you attend scifi/fanfic conventions?

Re: a blast from the past - namely, san jose and staying in your house

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Cute fuzzies...

Yeah, the next one I'll be attending/working is SiliCon, in October.

Re: a blast from the past - namely, san jose and staying in your house

[mrshannibal.livejournal.com]

i want to go to that one...the browncoats are having a masquerade ball and i think it would be fun...