i dont think garysher is every going away on this topic. this is his perfect kind of debate. every detail is idle speculation and opinion, so nobody can actually be shown right or wrong. and there are so many different details that if he says something ridiculous about one, he can ignore the posts that point this out and start on about another.

one of the interesting things in this article is that it seems to say that he flirted only with the other boys who made fun of him. presumably there were several people in the school who he didnt flirt with (girls, for a start, and the more tolerant boys). i wonder if the thing that got him shot was that he stood up to the bully.

and please, i can see the response, "but if he hadnt been dressed like a girl he wouldnt have been bullied".

surely you are not naieve enough to think that? kids are bullied in every school, for the stupidest of reasons or for no reason at all other than the bully likes to bully. standing up to a bully shakes their ego and often leads to them becoming more violent. less to do with homophobia, more to do with the shooters personal inadequacy.