MONDAY, MARCH 30 This week of unhinged bigots and revenge-porn vengeance kicked off in Indiana, the northeasterly Midwestern American state that provided us with an array of insane doings on which to focus. Let's start with the truly unexpected: the saga of Purvi Patel, the 33-year-old woman in Mishawaka, Indiana, who today became the first woman in the United States to be charged, convicted, and sentenced on a charge of feticide (aka an act that causes the death of a fetus). Details come from NBC News, which reported the saga was set in motion back in July 2013, when Patel walked into an emergency room with heavy bleeding. "Despite initially denying the pregnancy, Patel eventually admitted to medical authorities that she had a miscarriage and threw the stillborn fetus in a dumpster," reported NBC. "Despite Patel's claim that she gave birth to a stillborn child, prosecutors argued that Patel gave birth to a live fetus and charged her with child neglect." Thus came the trial, where jurors learned of Patel's conservative Hindu upbringing and the fact that her pregnancy was the result of an affair with a coworker, and prosecutors alleged that Patel's 25-weeks-along fetus died within seconds of being born. "Prosecutors also claimed that Patel ordered abortion-inducing drugs online and tried to terminate her pregnancy, but a toxicology report failed to find evidence of any drugs in her system," reported NBC. Meanwhile, Patel's lawyers argued that her only crime was improperly dealing with a miscarriage, detailing how their client panicked when she realized she was in labor. In a shocking twist, the jury rejected this miscarriage/stillborn narrative to find Patel guilty of felony neglect of a dependent and feticide, and today, Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison. "She received a 30-year sentence on the felony neglect charge, 10 of which were suspended," reported NBC. "A six-year sentence for feticide will be served concurrently." Closing comments come from Deepa Iyer, the Asian American activist and scholar, who told NBC, "Purvi Patel's conviction amounts to punishment for having a miscarriage and then seeking medical care... Instead of receiving the medical support and counseling she so desperately needed, the state charged her with murder and attempted feticide."

TUESDAY, MARCH 31 Speaking of backward garbage going down in Indiana, today brought a red-letter day of blowback to the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which supporters say protects the freedom of allegedly religious merchants who don't want to provide services to the LGBT community and which detractors say permits discrimination against anyone so long as the discriminator cites his or her religious beliefs. Following a days-long bumble parade by Indiana governor Mike Pence (who forever sullied his political career with insistent deadpan lying about his motives and the bill's intent) and an ever-growing backlash against the state (with everyone from Wilco to NASCAR denouncing the new legislation), today the Indianapolis Star published a front-page editorial consisting of only three words writ large: "FIX THIS NOW."

With the majority of humanity rallying around the shittiness of a law that would officially make the LGBT community second-class citizens, the wackos of the religious right went into overdrive. Among the delights: Mike Huckabee's claim that gays won't rest until "there are no more churches," Glenn Beck's denunciation of gay-rights activists as modern-day Nazis fomenting a Christian holocaust, and wingnut broadcaster Bryan Fischer's week-defining tweet: "The pressure Big Gay has put on Indiana is proof they are not about 'marriage equality' but 'homosexual supremacy.'" Never mind that numerous Christian religions are packed with people who support gay equality, or the majority of pushback against Indiana's law has come from outside the self-identified gay community—apparently Walmart and NASCAR and the State of Connecticut and the Disciples of Christ and Wilco are all part of "Big Gay" now, and to all of you, Last Days says welcome! For your initiation into Big Gay, please read Leslie Feinstein's Stone Butch Blues, watch Paris Is Burning, then do a bunch of poppers and dance to The Immaculate Collection all the way through. (During the ballads, discuss how to make the world safer and more accepting of trans folk and non-honkies.)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 Nothing happened today, unless you count the second day of crazy dramatic lightning in the Pacific Northwest, with yesterday's tree-exploding lightning in the Washington Park Arboretum followed by today's house-attacking lightning in Federal Way. "The lightning blew out drywall in the house, damaged the gutters, and caused a gas line to rupture," reported the Associated Press. "The residents were unhurt."

THURSDAY, APRIL 2 The week continued—surprise!—in Indiana, where today Governor Mike Pence "signed into law a revised version of a controversial religious freedom bill that included new language to clarify that businesses and service providers cannot use the legislation as a justification to discriminate based on a client's sexual orientation," reported the Washington Post.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3 Meanwhile in California, today brought a celebration-worthy sentencing in San Diego, as 28-year-old "revenge porn" entrepreneur Kevin Bollaert was ordered to spend the next 18 years in jail. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Bollaert was convicted in February of multiple felony counts of identity theft and extortion, stemming from his operation of a website featuring sexually explicit photos of women sent in by angry ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands. Not only did Bollaert post the images along with the subjects' names and personal information, he charged women between $300 and $350 to have the pictures removed. "Eight women told Superior Court Judge David Gill how they were victimized by having the pictures appear on the website," reported the Times. "Bollaert was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution to his victims and a $10,000 fine."

SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Meanwhile in Seattle, a significant subset of Capitol Hill old-timers continued to grapple with the passing of Isidor Martinez, the '90s-era community superstar who earlier this week was called to the great pot-and-perfume-drenched cock buffet in the sky. "If you were going out to clubs in Seattle in the 1990s—Re-bar in particular—you knew Isidor," wrote Dan Savage in a remembrance on The Stranger's blog. "Isidor was a big, smart, and sardonic presence. She worked the door in a shredded dress, a busted wig, a few bold smears of makeup... Those signs that say 'No Homophobes, No Racists, No Assholes' that Seattle club owners post at their doors? Isidor was a living, breathing, drinking, smoking, joking, groping version of that sign... If you couldn't handle the person at the door of the club—if Isidor freaked you out—then you couldn't handle what you were going to encounter inside the club." This week brought a slew of such remembrances, and swimming around in the details of others' amazing tales of Isidor—from her response to a drunk rock dude projectile vomiting all over the table next to her at the Doghouse (Isidor reportedly shouted, "You go, girl!" then happily continued her meal) to her affiliation with the dark (exploding a social rival's ashtray with a wave of her hand)—made this week magical. Farewell and thanks for everything, Isidor.

SUNDAY, APRIL 5 Nothing happened today.

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