Exceptions
Filed by: Brynn Craffey
September 21, 2009 9:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/09/exceptions.php

I try to check the headlines in the UK's Guardian, if not on a daily basis, at least every few days. On Saturday, I came across a tragic story of two young, British, working-class men in love with each other, neither of whom seems to have been gay -- although it's impossible to be absolutely sure from the story as reported.

As you can see from the photo, though, showing Barry Delaney, 25, collapsed and weeping, it is a story with a heartbreaking ending. Delaney promised his best friend, Kevin Elliott, 22 at the time, to wear a dress -- "the brighter, the better" -- to Elliott's funeral in the terrible event Elliott was killed in action in one of the two wars of occupation in which Britain has joined America in the Middle East.