From Orlando Sentinel
Gay men's home burns, with epithet left behind
By Kelly Griffith and Amy L. Edwards
Sentinel Staff Writer


Paul Day and Christopher Robertson knew life as gay men in Polk County could be rough. They had been called names and taunted by neighborhood teens before.

Day, 25, said he even had a mailbox riddled with shotgun pellets once when living near the Green Swamp in the north part of the county.