Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashgs by Police

Contents:

• GAY BASHG
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH
• FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL
• ‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS
• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS
• SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY
• GAY BASHG
• A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG
• GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)

GAY BASHG

From middle schoolers beg tnted wh antigay slurs to lbians beg murred for showg affectn public, bias-related vlence ntu to threaten the LGBT muny. But some good has e out of too: Some of the more poignant gay-bashg cints have l a fire unr policians to help clu sexual orientatn and genr inty the tegori of thgs that make an act of vlence a hate crime.

Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis.

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted. Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live. Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.

He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform.

MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH

SAN FRANCISCO — Beaten by a roamg pack of thugs out for a summer’s “night of outrage, ” his head bounced off a curb, John Dennis O’Connell died 10 days was attacked solely bee he was a unprovoked asslts, sometim lled “gay bashg, ” have long been a form of homosexual harassment towns and ci where sizable gay populatns draw San Francis, wh a reputatn as a homosexual haven and an timated gay populatn of 15% of 700, 000 people, some say attacks are risg, spe efforts by gay advot and police to put the bashers behd Seidler, the Police Department’s liaison officer wh the gay muny, said the attackers are most often out-of-town toughs who e to the cy exprsly to hunt homosexuals or cy rints rentful of homosexuals sharg their neighborhoods and public of Exposure to AIDSThe latt twist, Seidler said, is attacks by youths who claim that homosexuals are exposg them to AIDS, the adly disease that most monly strik gay men. “One of the thgs you thk about every sgle day when you walk outsi of your hoe is that you uld be a victim of an asslt based on your sexual orientatn--’s drilled , ” said Randy Schell, a unselor wh Communy Uned Agast Vlence, a neighborhood group the largely gay Castro Street area.

FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL

“It all go back to the old ncept that gay people are weak and they’re ferr and they’re not gog to try to protect themselv and they’re real easy victims, ” he ncept is changg even as the number of attacks ntu to rise, Schell said; more and more homosexuals are fightg back when attacked or are prosecutg their attackers. ”Faz said some lawyers thought that the O’Connell se was blown out of proportn bee of prsure om the gay muny, which hailed the sentenc as a victory.

“(The fendants) sgled out an intifiable group of people and be the people homosexual, black, Jewish, some ethnic mory or somethg like that mak no difference. ”Timothy Whe, 23, and David Rogers, Donnie Clanton and Doug Barr, all 21, had driven 40 to San Francis om their hom Vallejo on July 29, 1984, wh the exprsed tent of “gay bashg, ” Faz said.

Frank Reed said the Police Department kept no numbers for attacks on homosexuals but said they were a small percentage of the cy’s total asslts, which numbered 12, 000 1985. Communy Uned, fanced by the cy and through grants, is tryg to stop the attacks through tn and agency sends speakers to school and civic assembli to talk about the gay muny and teach homosexuals how to protect themselv, Vazquez said. Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough.

‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS

What we do know that is that rerd homophobic and transphobic hate crim have jumped every year sce 2015, and yet wh an timated four five still gog unreported, the already grisly figur only ht at a far bleaker cints vary nature and severy: om abe hurled at someone intified as LGBTQ bee of their appearance, or mannerisms, or a fleetg or profound show of affectn towards a partner; to gay men beg beaten and robbed, as happened a spected homophobic attack on the streets of Edburgh last month, or a trans man savagely attacked Bournemouth earlier this year. A whe, middle-class, gay, cis man – that is, someone generally at one wh their genr assigned at birth – an urban area is likely to suffer far ls meangful opprsn than other groups.

Beyond the fear of holdg hands wh their partner public, their ma grievanc tend to centre on the psychologil srs left by the often suffotgly homophobic environment of their school n lead to lastg trma, which largely explas the higher rat of mental distrs and abive relatnships wh alhol and dgs among LGBTQ people. The most damaged are equently those whose fathers and mothers vlated the most sacred prciple of parenthood – unndnal love – ference to their own bigotry, often implantg a tickg time bomb their children that may tonate later life, be the form of emotnal breakdown or dg a young gay black man, homophobia may lli wh creased risk of police harassment and racist behavur om other LGBTQ people: victims n be perpetrators, too, sometim believg their own mistreatment mak impossible to opprs as Shon Faye’s brilliant new book The Transgenr Issue unrl, is trans people – the T the LGBTQ – now sufferg the most severe onslght.

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

Today’s relentls mpaign agast trans people seems a near-rbon py of the prevly wispread monsterg of gay and bisexual people, wh all the same trop repeated: that they are would-be sexual predators, that they seek to brawash and rec children, that blogy is sty, that this is a whimsil liftyle choice, that they are fed by mental illns or a creepy fetish that impos an tolerable burn on the “normal” the 1980s and 1990s, many supposed liberals participated the anti-gay offensive, lamentg that the se for gay rights was beg unrmed by “ant homosexuals” makg unreasonable mands on the rt of society, such as askg newspapers not to ll them “poofters”. Supporters of the LGB Alliance – many of whom are straight – promptly took to Twter to nounce this cint as homophobia and even gay-bashg by the queer protters – some of whom will evably have suffered actual hate crim.

The man beme somethg of a e célèbre, an cint that has been marshalled to support the creasgly mon claim that the trans rights movement is homophobic; a “woke homophobia” as a GB News prenter put , renrg LGBTQ people the real homophobic as reported hate crim surge, Stonewall – by far the largt LGBTQ civil rights anisatn – fds self targeted by a McCarthye mpaign agast s fence of trans rights. The biggt killer of men unr 45 is suici: eeg them om rigid genr norms, which teach them to believe that openg up about their problems is unmanly or “gay”, will make them more likely to seek support. ”The notor former police officer, Roger Rogerson, was based at the statn at the time, but the now-faiar stori of protectn money, pay-offs om crime boss and ps on the take at Darlghurst, Surry Hills and Kgs Cross police statns have missed another, arguably more signifint story: how police were allegedly bashg gay men.

”Higgbotham was mystified by the anger directed towards gay men by the officers, “which isn’t what you would have expected the middle of a gay area”. After the victim, the edor of a gay newspaper, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, he was seen as some kd of avenger and protector for the gay muny by at least two senr staff at the statn, who subjected him to a soul-stroyg bullyg mpaign, at s nastit durg the ‘taskg para’ at the mencement of each shift, when jobs were alloted. ‘” Higgbotham was not sulted by beg labelled a homosexual by his tormentors – for the rerd Higgbotham is heterosexual – but bee they were g that word to try to mean and stroy him.

CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS

He has been wh the Victorian police for 29 years, pneerg work improvg practic for supportg sex crime victims the urt early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and 2010.

As early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and gby league footballer, now actor, Ian Roberts, says the horrific anti-gay crime spree rollg across Sydney the late 1980s and early 1990s ntributed to his cisn to postpone his g out as gay (he had planned to e out at the end of 1989 football season, but didn’t fally do so until 1994) Roberts layed g out partially bee of the gay bashgs and murrs occurrg Wolter Peeters“The public backlash agast soccer player Jt Fashanu (who me out October 1990) also ma me hate, ” says Roberts. ”Higgbotham’s story, as well as Ian Roberts’ memori of the anti-gay crime wave Sydney the late 1980s, n be heard episo five of The Sydney Morng Herald and The Age’s podst, Bondi Badlands.

SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG

Publisher SummaryThis chapter foc on dividual gay-bashg through theorizg that ntribut to the stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vertly by failg to acknowledge and exame the problem of antigay vlence. The pervasive homophobic i of the society at large and of the amic muny self rulted both the neglect and the ghettoizatn of this important problem. The outset of aggrsn and vlence agast gays and lbians take many forms om the obv, such as physil attacks, sults, and vic jok, to the subtle but equally pernic, such as the refal to regnize the existence and legimacy of the gay muny and gay culture, the re-wrg of verse by famo poets to obscure referenc to same-sex love, and the genocidal failure by the Amerin ernment to fund AIDS preventn efforts at an aquate level.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

The prospect of beg gay bashed is que sry, but Carolyne Haycraft, the executive director of EMERJ-SafeNow, an anizatn that teach cultural-specific strategi for preventg vlence, says there’s no need to nstantly fear beg attacked and has suggtns for effective gay bashg fense that uld help you learn how to survive a gay bashg. Together wh Aman Weaver, a lbian woman who works as an EMERJ-SafeNow facilator and curriculum veloper, the two have tght gay bashg fense class to LGBTQ people.

Also, if your statn is a nservative area (filled wh possible queer-phob), a place of drkg or an area known for gay bashgs, prepare to be extra vigilant, keepg your ey and ears open. Sce alhol and other dgs are often part of gay and public scen — and n crease aggrsn or crease awarens — Weaver suggts beg extra mdful and thkg ahead if you’re head to a place where dgs will be ed.

TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY

Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame.

GAY BASHG

Homosexualy his ey is not only a s but a sickns, and gay people are perverted and supposedly suffer om ma-up ailments like "gay bowel syndrome. ” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down.

When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt. Lake Inpennt Baptist Church, Oakland, MDPastor Dennis Leatherman’s fifty-mute sermon tled “Homosexualy and the Bible” scribed his ternal stggle.

” Yup, that’ll teach ‘em, pecially bee nothg says “my son is gay” like a limp d of his sermon leaked onle, Fahful Ameri gathered 10, 000 signatur om people pletely appalled by Harris’ statements.

A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG

The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays. When evangelist Billy Graham left the polil sil to support North Carola’s anti-gay marriage iative, Phelps actually said Graham didn’t go far enough and began prottg Graham, too.

No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia. But stead of openly gay actors beg unr attack, was openly gay playwrights who took the heat and, after them, openly gay leg crics like Setooh.

GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)

In 1966, the Sunday New York Tim published Stanley Kffmann’s “Homosexual Drama and Its Disguis, ” an cendiary say that serly qutned gay playwrights’ abily to wre thentic heterosexual characters. ” Instead of sglg out jt playwrights, he went after fellow Rose gut, Ben Brantley, the NYT’s openly gay theater cric, and his preference for “the homosexual play. At the semar, fellow gay scribe Terrence McNally offered: “The whole bs of gay sensibily creepg to theater ed to be a very d way back the 1960s for certa crics to say, ‘I know you’re a homosexual even though you’re not wearg a sign around your neck.

At the time, Kffmann, then 85, fend himself a Variety terview, llg Albee’s remarks a “malic distortn” of what he origally wrote, “which was to protect homosexual playwrights and attack society for makg them disguise themselv. Gay BashgContextBullyg of LGBT youthStrs, anxiety and prsn LGBT muniEffect of bullyg on LGBT youthEdutnal settgsStatistics and examplCasLegislatnSupportGay bashg and gay bullyg is an attack, abe, or asslt mted agast a person who is perceived by the aggrsor to be gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. Bullyg of gay/LGBT people volv tentnal actns toward the victim, repeated negative actns by one or more people agast another person, and an imbalance of physil or psychologil power.