Desi Deschaine, gay Democratic DC council staffer, dies

Those of you outside of DC probably won't know Desi, but if you lived in DC, he was hard to miss. I met him when he worked for the mayor a while back (and I was involved in a little campaign going after the chief of police on crime issues), and since that time, would always run into Desi here and there. I even ran into him again recently, I think it was at pride. Just very freaky hearing of a 29 year old dying. Especially one so full of life. When I first head he was missing, the story struck me as a bit odd, as if something were missing from the story (the friend who told me about it felt the same). And on reading this report in the Blade, the story still doesn't sound quite right.