DAY 3

The following morning the same paper contained another onslaught at Sandra.  And in a TV report another agent on the family detail was assailed.  Here they quoted an acquaintance who claimed Gloria Alcot was a lesbian.  They found that she had been a roommate of a lesbian leader in college for three years.  She was listed on the early team that cleared the hotel before the family was admitted.  Somehow the press had obtained the team rosters which were to be confidential.  She would have been on the team that missed the attacker.  There were implications in the story that she may have purposefully missed some indication of the impending attack.  Other accusations included possible collusion between Gloria and Sandra in abetting the attacker.  The fact that they were in the same class of agents and had roomed together for a time during training was mentioned.  There was so much confidential information about the service that was leaked that it was appalling. The big issue was that according to the press they were lesbians, this was reason alone to suspect them without any other evidence.  Left wing papers that supported gay and lesbian agendas somehow turned nasty very quickly.  The paper speculated that they were lesbian lovers.  They were accused of not being willing to shoot or turn in a person who is gay.  Their allegiance to the country was questioned.  They were accused of being more loyal to the gay and lesbian cause than to the protection of the president.  Gay bashing became endemic in even the liberal press.  Each reporter tried to be one up on the other.  Reporters who wrote words of wisdom and restraint were gagged by editors.  The attacker was gay.  The existence of the syringe and the letter left behind in his room showed that an AIDS infected homosexual wanted to infect the president’s family. 

The country saw the early reports and by noon reports of animosity toward gays was increasing.  And attacks on Gays increased in number and intensity as the day progressed.  By evening there were at least a hundred verifiable assaults on people suspected of being gay, two of them were in critical condition in hospitals.  Areas that once had been sanctuaries for gays like Southern California were having rashes of assaults.  The evening news did little to calm the storm.  In New York the group, “Not Straight” turned out with over two thousand demonstrators in front of the Mayor’s Office.  This large a meeting naturally drew media attention.  TV crews arrived and the leaders had their forum.  A podium and sound system appeared and the leader, Collette Harris delivered a stinging rebuke of the president.  She finished with the following.