Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everybody is out to get you

It's all Mike Mennonno can do to not rush over to JP from his new home in Somerville and slap some sense into the gay guy who worries all his neighbors hate him even though he has absolutely no evidence to that effect:

... What seems to bother Demerjian is that no one seems to be as hot and bothered about his homosexuality as he, himself, is. So your neighbors aren't constantly affirming your sexuality and reassuring you it's OK to be gay? Well, waa waa waaah, Dave! Life sure is hard in JP. It must be at least as bad a place to raise kids as Mogadishu, or Baghdad, or Bhopal, or Chernobyl, what with all the people lurking around not muttering homophobic remarks (but surely about to), and not giving you dirty looks (at least not while you're looking back), and not really doing anything hurtful or hateful or nasty at all (but eminently capable of it, no doubt). ...