A while back a black teenager was killed in London in what turned out to be a ‘racially motivated attack’. The media in the UK were all over it, it was covered from every possible angle and the killers eventually found and prosecuted. The papers continued to discuss it for ages. Then there’s the young girl abducted while on holiday; that’s run and run, and still running occasionally.
Compare those experiences with this: Young, gay, proud, battered to death. I vaguely recall hearing about this story, initally, but since then nada. Not until now, when I ran across the acquittal of the accused. There’s always two sides to every story, but the quotes given seem pretty damning.
Why haven’t we heard more about this?
Presumably because the UK is still much more homophobic that it likes to imagine.
*sighs*
