Fundamentalist, born again Christians love her as their mascot. She 'was' a sinner, but now is 'righteous.' Most born-agains have a sordid past and want someone like her to redeem themselves. They are just looking for a group of people to hate on.
There are a lot more divorcees, adulturers, abortionists, murderers, and thieves to pick on, but gays are in general, nice and docile people so it's like picking cherries.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.