I spent a lot of time yesterday working on getting out the candidate questionnaires for the next issue of Erie Gay News. I realized that I really had to get it done right away in order to have things come together.
This morning, I looked on the front page of today’s paper, and there was a story about the release of a co-defendant in the 1991 murder of Donald Kremer. I never met Donald, but I feel awful for his family in having one of the men involved with his death walking the streets again.
When the jury came down with a second degree murder conviction in May of 1992, WSEE TV 35 contacted me to see if I was up for making a statement, because Donald was a gay man. At the time, no one locally had as yet done the full face/full name thing in conjunction with GLBT stuff.
I remember feeling scared and apprehensive about speaking in an undisguised setting, but I really felt like it was time for this to happen, and it would be irresponsible of me to expect this of others when I wasn’t prepared to do it myself.
So, almost 17 years ago, I faced my fear and spoke out. It is a decision I have never regretted in the slightest.
Some similar issues have come up recently, and I kind of felt that the synchronicity of these situations and the news was some kind of importance. I am not sure what I am supposed to be comprehending or doing, but I feel like I am supposed to learn something.
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