DallasVoice.com – By Leslie Robinson – General Gayety
The murder of an elderly gay man in Michigan, a gay Marine?s war wounds, a transgender person losing a job could prompt change
Civil-rights movements are messy and perverse. The GLBT movement will progress in part because of the recent sufferings of individuals. That makes me feel a little like a cannibal.
Take the ghastly case of Detroit?s Andrew Anthos, who was singing as he rode the bus from the public library to his apartment one evening. An annoyed passenger asked him if he was gay. After Anthos, 72, left the bus, the other passenger, spitting gay slurs, whacked him in the back of the head with a metal pipe.
Anthos died 10 days later.
Needless to say, he wasn?t killed for singing off-key. This was a clear hate crime.
Politicians in the state capital of Lansing knew Anthos, not as a wild-eyed gay activist, but as a wild-eyed patriot. For years he?d advocated lighting up the Michigan State Capitol dome in red, white and blue on one night a year.
Well, everybody has a passion.