After your friendly, neighborhood Gay Place rethinks and fine-tunes its blog categories (stay tuned!), one will surely be entitled WTF or, perhaps, No Wai! [actually, the new category appears above –ed.] just so stories like this – about an imprisoned cleric who is now refusing care from his gay nurse – will have warm, tight little niches in which to reside.

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