Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Who sent those letters to Seattle’s gay bars?
Yesterday columnist Dan Savage wondered who sent the ricin letters to eleven gay bars in Seattle and he thinks he knows the culprit. Oh there is no address and faded high-school picture; Savage is good, but he’s no Hercule Poirot. He’s convinced the terrorist threats came from a gay man.
As Savage notes, the letters lacked the type of Bible thumping condemnation usually associated with Christians who wish to engage in violence.
“The letters strike me as having been written by a very bitter man—by someone who came out, expected that gay life would a glorious cycle of song, and was shocked to discover that gay life—just like straight life—comes with no guarantees,” Savage wrote.
One of Savage’s readers pointed to a line the letter writer used that is plagiarized from a poem called “A Display of Mackerel.” Poet Mark Doty included that in his collection Atlantis, written after his lover died of an HIV related illness.
A bitter literate gay man who wants to get back at other gays because life isn’t what he expected? Jeesh! I miss 2008 already.
I suppose it is possible. Even the SCC community has its share of looney toons.
I’m sad to say that thought crossed my mind as well. I hope it isn’t true.
Should it prove to be true, I fear that the enemies of the GLBT Community will be swift to jump on the bandwagon, condemning all of us because of the actions of one ill-adjusted individual.
How ironic that I sit here thinking to myself, “I hope one of our enemies is doing this.”
RE: letters to gay bar. RIGHT ON again Withers!
I’m sorry, but I don’t think that we should make such an interesting assumption. Have we heard from the FBI or Police profilers regarding their impression of the writer’s background? Until we get expert input, any random interpretations should be given no credence.
Does anyone know what Chris S was doing when the letters were written?
Alex Parrish Said: “How ironic that I sit here thinking to myself, “I hope one of our enemies is doing this.”
Gay or straight, whomever is doing this IS our enemy, if not as gay people, then as humans.
i love gays, even ladyboys, my future life partner is ladyboy, she is too much beautiful,