What Century Are We In?
The following is a painful reminder of just how cruel a place our society can be to gays and lesbians.

A Newark teenager heading home from Greenwich Village early Sunday was stabbed to death because she and her friends told the killers they were lesbians, police said yesterday.
Shakia Gunn, 15, was attacked while waiting for a bus in Newark after she and several friends rebuffed sexual advances from two men by telling them they were gay, according to police investigating the bias crime.
(full story; hat tip Light of Reason)