Right after he get's bullied by Butch, he get's saved by a guy named Melvin. Melvin comes to his rescue after Butch pushes Vincent into a big pile of muddy water. You guys may be wondering well,"who is Melvin?"and in this short story Melvin claims to be Vincent's fairy godfather. After Melvin sees what had happened to Vincent, he takes him to a coffee shop so that he can explain to Vincent what the purpose of his job is. He explains to him that a year before the current year that they were in, he himself had been gay bashed and was brought into an alley and had gotten killed by a tire iron. From that day on he decided that he wanted to become a fairy godfather so he could help kids that were being gay bashed.
In my opinion, I think that it's a good thing that Melvin wants to do good, although he suffered from a brutal death just from being gay. I think that it shouldn't matter what other people are and how they choose to go about their life, because its THEIR life! And you should worry about what you are doing and what your choices in life are going to be, not about what others choose to believe or how they choose to express themselves. And the author was trying to make the idea aware that other people would notice that it's not much of a difference being gay because they are just like any other individual in the world. I believe that in this short story this is one message that Melvin is trying to get across to Vincent because Melvin says,"Do you know the three great gay fantasies?" he then explains to him that it was the third gay fantasy that he wanted to talk to him about. Melvin says,"We used to imagine what it'd be like if every gay person in the country turned blue for a day. Why? (Vincent says) So all straights would have to stop imagining that they didn't know any gay people (melvin replied). They would find out that they had been surrounded by gays all the time, and survived the experience just fine, thank you." And to the end he summarizes it up, and he says, "the hiding would finally have to stop." In this part of the story I also see that the author is kind of sneaking in his own opinions into Melvin's character. Maybe the author also might think that we need to put an end to people who are being gay bashed. It could even be possible that the author of this short story is gay and he might be trying to spread his opinions by writing a story about it.
In Conclusion, I also think that towards the end of the story, there is most definetly a character change with Vincent. In the beginning of the story, you could surmise that he didn't really have faith in someone that could actually help him with his life issues until Melvin showed him all of the magic that he could do. And it was until Melvin arrived that he was able to learn some of the principals of what being gay really was about. Although Vincent still couldn't figure out if he was gay or not, I think he was more aware of the "not everything is what it seems" statement because he learned who peoples "true colors" really were. You would be surprised who turned out to be gay in this short story and who exactly was just hiding it all along. But don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you. I think he learned a valuable lesson the day that he speant with Melvin, and he was able to still have the rest of his life to figure out if he was gay or not because like Melvin said, it took all of his life to make the choice of just walking the way he does. And saying things like "Honey" all the time. But at the end of the day, Vincent had all of Melvin's thoughts and opinions to keep in mind to help him determine what his choice in his future life would be.
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