fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
Some folks in the gay community have recently argued against a harsh sentence for the convicted Dharun Ravi, the man guilty of surreptitiously broadcasting over the internet his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, while he was having a date — an act which led to Mr. Clementi’s suicide. Some feared a harsh sentence might cause a backlash. Others…
The circumstance behind Tyler Clementi’s death sickens me to the core. A young man with a shy smile and a whole life ahead of him ended his own life after his homosexuality was posted on the internet for all the world to see. How was his gayness placed on the internet? His roommate at Rutgers, Dharun…
