They do not have to wear armbands to drive that point home. Throughout Wyoming, there has been increasing hostility and violence to gay men and women. Throughout the country, there has been increasing hostility and violence. Hey, fellas, I had my ass kicked in 8th grade by a particularly nasty Haitian girl. No one from the local papers had the urge to write a story about the frequency of white students in a predominately black high school being assaulted with derision, intolerance, insult and hostility.
Violence is violence.
The cultural, social, ethnic and sexual identities of the victim and attacker are not terribly important. If the act of violence itself is not newsworthy, the identities of those involved should not make it newsworthy. Gay people have to have secret meetings, and there's a lot of violence,' he said. When I was 24, my head was smashed open with a baseball bat. And the police are the worst of the rednecks.