Will there ever be a day?

I was going to make this post about other things. Like my daughter stopping smoking dope off her own bat. Or more thoughts about Simon and I. But when I turned on the computer I noticed this news article, and it made me cry:

A Melbourne man who dropped an 8kg concrete platypus on his gay housemate as he beat him to death has been found guilty for a second time of murder.

Aaron James Johnstone, 29, "lost it" after his drunk and naked housemate Phillip Higgins, 46, propositioned him in September 2006.
Johnstone told police he kicked and punched Mr Higgins before dropping the platypus statue on him.
He also bashed the slightly built disability pensioner with an office chair.
Johnstone had pleaded not guilty to murder in the Victorian Supreme Court but a jury took less than a day to find him guilty.
It is the second time he has been convicted of murdering Mr Higgins.
In 2008, Johnstone was jailed 18 years with a minimum of 14 for the murder.
In March, the Victorian Court of Appeal ordered a retrial after it found errors in directions given to the jury.
As the jury foreman announced the latest verdict, Johnstone closed his eyes and shook his head slightly.
Mr Higgins, who was openly gay, was found lying dead on the floor of their Seaford home with a pair of underpants beside him.
He had a blood alcohol concentration of between 0.32 and 0.37 per cent when he died.
The jury heard Mr Higgins' sexual preference was well known to Johnstone, who had been his friend for years and had been propositioned by him in the past.
In his opening address to the jury, prosecutor Mark Rochford, SC, said Johnstone carried out a sustained attack on Mr Higgins.
Mr Higgins suffered injuries including a fractured bone in the neck and cuts and bruises to the head, he said.
Mr Rochford said in Johnstone's record of interview he told police Mr Higgins had come out of the bedroom and said he would like to have oral sex with him.
At that point Johnstone told police he "lost it", hitting and kicking Mr Higgins.
He said he then dropped the statue on Mr Higgins.
Johnstone's barrister, John Desmond, said in his opening address that although he did not dispute his client's actions caused the death of Mr Higgins, he did not intend to kill him.
Johnstone will face a pre-sentence hearing before Justice Robert Osborn next Tuesday.

Murder gay flatmate

Quite apart from the politics and all the hatred that springs forth from that, or the general thinking amongst hetro's in regard to us gays, there is this case which involves a couple of blokes in a flatting situation, and at a very personal level. OK so the gay bloke was blind drunk. But if that had of been a girl acting like that to the straight guy, would he have beaten her to death?

What was driving him to kill this bloke? His own latent homosexuality? The horror he might have felt about that, given society's pressures? Why did he "lose it"? 

As I said, quite apart from all the politics and religious hatred, at a personal level like that....... Will there ever be a day when we aren't hated so much that a simple sexual proposition is a catalyst to be murdered for it, even if we're blind drunk and have no idea WTF we might be doing?

Will there ever be a day when society doesn't breed hatred for us in other people, from birth.

Will there ever be a day when being gay is no more of a thing than having a certain skin colour, or hair colour?

Will there ever be a day when we're simply accepted for who we are?