Jealousy

[awesomelies]

The day I get to pen a news story which begins "A gay man, who took a huge dose of LSD and injured his roommate by hitting him over the head with a 12-inch glass penis after setting his house on fire while nude...", I can retire from journalism in the knowledge I'll never write a better intro par.

Comments

[rocketeddy.livejournal.com]

I agree. How is his sexuality in any way relevant to the article? It just makes the author sound homophobic to me.

[awesomelies.livejournal.com]

Well, it is the Gay and Lesbian Times so I'm guessing no malice is intended (although yeah, normally that'd be as out of line as making play of their race/religion/age where it's not relevant to the story).

I'm assuming in this case it's shoehorned in as a signal that look! this is Relevant To Your Interests As A Gay Person and not just a prurient piece of giggling at something reckless someone did while off their tits on drugs (which of course it *is*, hence the need to try to pretend it's not).