"Dumpster Boy! ... Jesus ... is that how they know me? Is that what I became? Is that all I'm worth?" "Mind you, I coulda told them myself that no-one would give a shit about what had happened to me. Well, I could have told them ... if I wasn't already dead I mean.” "That sonofabitch cop picked me up for a little fun and games and just ‘cos I hollered when he started to slap me around he panicked. I saw it coming, but I just couldn't get out of the way. So I ended up in the dumpster and what did the fucking Police department do - nothing, that's what. Absolute squat.” "If it hadn't been for that Debbie down at the Liberty Diner, I wouldn't even have had a proper headstone on my grave. At least she bothered to find out at who I was ... what my name had been. More than the cops had done ... that’s for sure!" "Then when I saw that cop had been Chief Stockwell's partner for 15 years, I just knew they'd wanna bury the whole thing ... bury the case along with me. But then you know what happened, along comes this guy ... Brian Kinney.” "Now from what I can see, it was this Brian guy ... who by the way is to die for, yeah! Oh shit ... I forgot ... I already am dead! ... who'd been helping promote Chief Stockwell to become Mayor in the upcoming elections. Kinda figured that if he helped the Chief get elected, the Chief could be his meal-ticket. Asshole - sell his own damn Grandmother for a one-way ticket outta the Pitts.” "So now Stockwell goes round closing down all the gay bars, clubs and backrooms to make the streets "family-friendly.” Bullshit, if the good people of Pittsburgh don't wanna come down to Liberty Avenue, no-one's gonna make them, right? Why can't they all just leave us alone?" "Now I don’t know what happened, but it kinda looks like somewhere down the line this guy Kinney has second thoughts about what’s going on ... it all starts to get a little too close to home and he goes and gets his conscience back ... had to decide between what was right and what was wrong. Something about having to be prepared to sacrifice everything for what you believe in. Is he for real? But anyway, he goes and starts his own smear campaign to stop that asshole becoming Mayor after all!" "I hear it was real embarrassing for the Chief down at the Gay and Lesbian Center. Apparently he’d been set up with a real hostile audience, holding up these posters with pictures on them. All of them people who’d been murdered or assaulted.” "Like that drag queen I used to see around town ... murdered a couple of years back. They still haven't caught her killer.” "And that kid ... Justin ... Justin Taylor. What about him? His Mom's right, he sure is beautiful ... attacked and left for dead on that cold concrete floor. The asshole that did that only got community service 'cos the police called it an assault instead of a hate-crime. A simple assault ... when he went after him with a base-ball bat for Chrissakes!" "Christ knows how many others ... all ignored ‘cos they were gay.” "And then there was me ... Jason Kemp ... AKA Dumpster Boy!" "Well, from what I heard this Kinney guy ... he's involved with Justin ... sort of his boyfriend in this 'non-conventional, non-committed way' apparently ... and it was this Justin kid who'd been the one running all over town pasting up those posters poking shit-fun outta Stockwell. And were Stockwell and Kinney's boss pissed when they found the two of them together! Not only fucking, but with all those posters lying around them. No doubt about it then. Kinney’s in on the smear campaign all right ... in on it up to his beautiful ass!" "So he's fired ... even though he was a partner in the firm ... escorted off the premises by a security guard ... without even so much as a ballpoint pen ... I sure would have liked to have seen that!!" "Then he heard about the hustler kid ... um ... whatsisname? Yeah ... Hunter ... that’s it ... I’d seen him around myself ... even had to kick his ass off my turf a couple of times. Well apparently, he’d seen me with the cop the night I died ... so Hunter took Kinney to the bar we’d been in and pointed him out.” "So the next night Kinney and this Justin kid go back to the bar ... hoping that Justin could get his attention so that Kinney could swipe a cigarette butt. Instead, Hunter collars him outside ... lets him pick him up and take him home ...stupid little twat ... But hey ... he hit pay dirt ... came back with a rubber the cop filled with his load so they could run some of those DNA tests and tell it was him up my ass the night I died." "So Kinney takes the rubber to that cop Horvath, but he says it’s not enough evidence. Jesus, what does he need ... a signed fucking confession!! Next thing Kinney knows, Stockwell’s all sweetness and light ... even offers him the connections he’d wanted in the first place. So I guess the Chief must be pretty rattled after all." "But you know what ... and where’s the fucking justice in this ... the cop that wasted me goes and kills himself. Motherfucker ... I wanted him in court, so he’d have to stand up and show the whole world how the cops had tried to cover up that one of their own was a faggot and a murderer." "So where do we go from here? No link between the cop and Stockwell, so nothing stopping him becoming Mayor now." "That is until Kinney decides he has to take a stand himself ... selling his stuff and getting up to the limit on five gold cards to the tune of $100,000 to buy these commercials to be aired on all the TV stations leading up to election day ... a commercial suggesting a link between Stockwell and the cover up of the murder of 'Dumpster Boy' ... that’s me, in case you forgot.” "Well I don’t fucking believe it ... but it worked ... it actually worked. Come the election, enough people vote against him and Stockwell loses and out they all go on to the streets”. “Christ ... it looks like one helluva party down there ... looks like it’s gonna last for days ... wish I could be there." "Now ... where is he? Oh yeah ... I can see him ... Brian ... standing with Justin on the steps of Woody’s bar, watching what’s going on in the street. Christ, they’ve kinda been on a roller coaster themselves, these past few months since the break-up and then getting back together”. “And there’s Brian telling Justin he’s lost everything ... Jesus!” “No you schmuck ... you haven’t ... the most precious thing you have is right with you ... with his arms around you and his tongue down your throat!" "And they said there was no such thing as a gay super-hero. Well I don’t believe that any more ... ‘cos I’m looking at him ... and his name is Brian Kinney." "Look at those rainbow colored flags ... well they sure look pretty, don’t they ... flying over Liberty Avenue again.” The End. 02 March 04