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It didn't come out Renee was gay.
It did. I saw early on that it was her wife there at the scene of the murder.
It didn't cause any loss of attention. The person you're responding to is a liar.
No it didn't come out, because it was established from the very beginning. Her wife was on video talking. She ran over after the crash. It was always very clear 100% of the time. It didn't come out, because it was standing there waving its hands wildly the whole time.
I see what you're saying now.
I guess it depends where you are and how you read the news. From outside the USA I saw a lot of details about the murder, and the backlash, before reading that her wife was in the car at the time. It probably took a couple of days?
Nope. It took 3.5 seconds. "Who's that person in the white hat?" "Oh, that's apparently her wife!" "Oh God, how fucking heartbreaking."
That is why there was no "coming out".
Fair enough. It took a day or two before I heard anything much more about her than that she was someone that the US government had just executed in the street.
Also, no media made a big deal of the fact she was gay, because we don't care about anything like that in the UK, unless of course she'd been trans in which case she'd have been hung out to dry.
"Her wife" was included in news reports within about an hour. Didn't seem like any sort of delay to me.
Exactly. It never came out because it was never not out. She was right there on video in all of them.
Fair enough. I guess I mostly saw breaking reports which were fairly scant on details followed by opinion pieces which focused more on the "usa slides further into fascism" angle.
I recall the first reports talking about her dead husband and acting like her kid was an orphan.
I recall the tone changing in how people talked about her in various threads and articles depending on how prevalent her being gay was.
Maybe we saw those reports within an hour, but I recall people still responding to the straight-washed articles the next day.
I noticed no change like this at all. We've had nationwide protests for Renee Good.
I'm not going to say her sexuality hasn't changed the responses by some, it absolutely has. But its not like it was somehow held back.
That said, there are people saying things like "Pretti shouldn't have reached for his gun" - a statement that is absolutely insane considering he not only never reached for his gun, but was also disarmed when he was murdered.
Thats an issue with ignorance, not with reporting. The information is readily available, some just grab that first headline and never bother to learn more.