Reason First: What Gay Men in Atlanta Will Rise Up Against Frauds and Rapists?

According to the Guardian, Atlanta, Georgia is the hub for the black LGBTQ+ community. The city has been joked about, lied on, and taken to task for its reputation as one of the centers for non-straight individuals, especially black men. By taking advantage of this fact that Atlanta is a haven for African-American homosexuals, this coward named Taurence Callagain received a conviction ruling based on a rape that he commited in 2015. In order to win the trust of a young woman, he perpetrated the fraud by acting as a gay man. He then lured the woman to his apartment where she expected to put some kush into the air. Callagain possessed ulterior motives. He continued the ruse all the way up until the woman found her way into his bedroom where he savagely raped her.

This is the ugliness of irrationality expressed fully. A straight male who masqueraded as a gay is egregiously disrespectul to the LGBTQ+ community and to straight ally men as well. Especially rights-respecting, women loving, straight black men. Callagain is a vicious portrait of what a scared little boy in an oversized bodily frame looks like. There are enough problems that gay black men face in today’s society. The stigma that all of them carry HIV or are predators in their own right may still sting in the consciousness of some of the populace. For a male to use a cover to brutally rape a woman is the hallmark of a sick figure. When he couldn’t find a woman based on his finesse and oratorical skills, he stooped to a low by not being gay but making it into a mockery. Straight black men everywhere in the United States and the world ought to condemn Callagain as the ultimate example of filth. He lacks the testicular fortitude that it takes to forge a rational, honest relationship with women. And to disregard the gays is to show no support for their lives.

Callagain will be sentenced in the coming weeks. If justice is served, he ought to receive life in prison. May the judicial system not spare this miscreant. Because this crime is so heinous, he should be forced to feel the cold hand of justice for the rest of his days.

All of this comes down to feelings. Instead of employing reason in this particular case, Callagain fell back on his emotions and disregarded every chance to think. By abandoning his capacity to reason, he of course committed a profound atrocity against another individual but it’s more than that. He acted as a second-hander and not just as a gay man in all of this. A first-handed man would’ve been capable of demonstrating confidence and assertiveness without sacrificing his own dignity and honor.

Gay men in Atlanta should be picketing and shouting from Dekalb County to Fulton County outrage of this puny little male. And the women...well they should get together and form a pact that will work to prevent crimes like this from happening. They ought to stomp the pavement declaring that they will not face this kind of vicious injustice anymore.

Callagain will most likely experience the social side of prison life as a punk who will receive the same treatment that he perpetrated against the woman. If the law doesn’t provide for justice to be carried out, inmates will be glad to show Callagain what it means to be abused. Now, of course, he has the right to life and the guards should protect him, but in the tribal, collectivist culture of the carceral system, Callagain may experience misfortune, so to speak.

But with the assistance of straight men and women, LGBTQ+, and law enforcement, we may see a reduction, even an elimination in incidents like this. Neighborhood leaders and honest politicians may be able to institute change by arguing that males like Callagain ought to be medically castrated and be locked behind the wall until he expires. With the assistance of all of these factions, there will be a renewed awareness of predators to the minds of people in Atlanta and elsewhere. This male cements the fact that emotion-driven persons initiate the start of force. Let the retaliation be even harsher.