Dollface Oregon Cutie Dies Defending Gay Friend

More tragedy porn. Bring it on.

None of us are here for a little escapism or humor to help preserve our mental health.

Just keep copying-and-pasting these stories.

The TPF = tragedy porn fetishist

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R1 Are you still at at it from last night? Fun began its slow crawl to death after 9/11, the housing market / banking collapse of 2008, and then Covid 19.

This guy was protecting a friend from a potential gay basher. I doubt he would want you never to be aware of him and his heroic actions after he died from them.

The Data Lounge is large enough to accommodate both kinds of threads, fun and serious. If you don't like a thread, there are plenty of others.

Hall monitors are the worst.

More details and photos.

Wow, this guy sounds like an angel:

[quote] “He was quick to tell you he loved you, all the time,” Lee told Eater. “He said it to all the guys at Ox. It would catch them off-guard. That was just Colin; he just loved.”

[quote] Smith’s mom, Julie Smith, said in a statement shared with NBC News that her son was “my friend, my confidant, my reality check, and my miracle.” She said he loved hosting dinner parties, his cat, Smokey, and that she would miss his daily phone calls to her.

I feel so sorry for his mother.

[quote] “I will never mourn the selfless soul of my beautiful boy, which cannot be extinguished by death and will live on forever,” she said in the statement.

[quote] She said that she used to ask him and his sister what they wanted to be when they grew up, and Smith would tell her he wanted to be “a rainbow.”

The GoFundMe for his family.

Very, very sad. The article didn't mention who is taking care of his pets. I hope his sister or mother. They both sound lovely.

I hope I would do the same thing as he in the circumstances, but I'm not sure. I might have chickened out.

Proof yet again, that it doesn't pay to be a hero.

Not in this country, at least.

Many quotes in local Eater

“ In 15 years of working in restaurants, never have I seen an employee with such compassion for not only his colleagues, but his colleagues’ families. Everybody who set foot in the restaurant, he’d drop whatever he was doing to make sure everybody was taken care of on any given night.” — Mark Knudsen

“Colin was one of the most genuine, kindhearted, loving souls I’ve ever met. He was just so easy to connect with. He truly saw people for who they are. He really wanted to know who people were. When he met people, he really took time to get to know them, to truly connect with them.” — Paulina Solis

“He would make you feel welcomed immediately. Even if you were the worst person any of us had ever met, he would find something good about you; he’d try to break down those walls you had put up.” — Devin Lee”

The killer is creepy looking.

You can see the mental illness in his eyes.

I hope he gets raped in prison on a daily basis.

He's too ugly for him to be high on anyone's list, unfortunately. Looks inbred.

Based on the title of the thread, I thought the cat saved the guy from some disaster.

Then I read the article, sad stuff, man. Seems that "gay bashing" is seing an uptick in the last several years.

I don't think murder could have been prevented in this case.

I mean, how do you NOT get into a confrontation with a maniac who comes up to your table, shouting homophobic slurs?

You walk away? He kills you.

You defend yourself? He kills you.

This was a lose-lose situation. For anyone.

The killer was looking to kill someone.

I don't think he'd kill you if you walked away.

Really too bad that, in hindsight, you have to put up with the homophobic verbal attack, unless all your friends are cops with lightning fast reflexes and outstanding self-defense skills.

The sister's wedding dress is also a crime.

R11, what a piece of shit. I hope they throw the book at him.

[quote][His mother] said that she used to ask him and his sister what they wanted to be when they grew up, and Smith would tell her he wanted to be “a rainbow.”

Heartbreaking 💔

What a sad story. RIP to someone who was clearly a wonderful person. And I hope his killer rots in prison for the rest of his natural life.

Oh, no, no, no. See, Vida, there are times when you help people, and then there are times when if you help people, you end up being killed. So, you don't help people.

I appreciate the fact that OP used 'gay friend' instead of 'LGBTQ friend'. So tired of gay erasure.

[quote] Rahnique Usef Jackson,

Uh huh.

When I saw the GFM for the family, I donated to one of these for the first time in a long time. He seems to have been a good person.

I will never be moved like I was by his mother’s words. “I will never mourn him” was the most radical way to say fuck you to his killer!!!!!!!! And the rainbow thing chokes me up. They are a truly special family.

His sister likely had a family heirloom dress, that’s why it isn’t our normal cup of tea, but it makes me love them even more.

Gladly donated to the GFM.

[quote]More details and photos.

Nudes? I'll only donate to the GoFundMe if there are nudes.

R1 why click and post. You could easily scroll past the posting; who made you the dictator of DL.

The person quoted,Devin, is a friend of mine. She was really close to this guy and her FB posts about him have been devastating. Just reread some posts and started crying when she said she’d take care of Smokey for him.

OMG r30, that is shocking. I hope you are ok, things like this do “mark” our lives in ways that we don’t usually understand until two decades later. Do your best to support your friend and try to focus on the good legacy he gifted you all with. But it’s ok to be shocked and sad too.

RIP.

Poor guy. I hope someone takes care of his cat.

R1 that's why I don't even watch the news. Every now and then, they stick a corpse in on you. You could be watching a perfectly lovely story about Central America. All of a sudden -- bam! -- a dead body.

Oh, R14, don't you know it's not gay-bashing, it's

[quote]anti-LGBTQ harassment ?

Also from OP's link:

[quote]a man began harassing one of Smith's friends and tossed homophobic slurs.

Oh, OK. Anti-gay, then.