Gays in the heartland
Here’s a story about how it might change. (Need Washington Post access, but just use bugmenot.com,
and you don’t have to register. And if you use Firefox, there’s
an extension that’ll automate most of the BugMeNot process.) Mind
you, he’s still regarded as sinful for being gay, but the fact that his
community rallied around him is a sign of significant progress, and
hopefully they’ll get further sooner rather than later.
This kid was lucky, but I’d like to think that his luck will be more common in the future.