1968: After Dozens Of Acqutals, Police Forced To End Raids On Gay Haven : NPR

Contents:

• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• GANG MEMBERS INDICTED FOR THE DGGG DEATHS OF GAY MEN
• SIX GANG MEMBERS WHO PREYED ON MEN AT NYC GAY CLUBS DICTED FOR DGGG, MURRG 2
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• 1968: AFTER DOZENS OF ACQUTALS, POLICE FORCED TO END RAIDS ON GAY HAVEN
• MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY
• MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY
• MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY
• LURED INTO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay.

“Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life.

” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia. The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. 8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016.

GANG MEMBERS INDICTED FOR THE DGGG DEATHS OF GAY MEN

Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.

Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife. “How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?

“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard.

SIX GANG MEMBERS WHO PREYED ON MEN AT NYC GAY CLUBS DICTED FOR DGGG, MURRG 2

) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns. Gang members alleged to have preyed on club-goers at var bars New York Cy’s Hell’s Kchen have been dicted on charg related to the dg-duced aths of two gay men last sprg. Ramirez was found ad si a taxi on the Lower East Si April of last year after beg seen leavg the Rz Bar and Lounge, a gay club Hell’s Kchen, wh three unintified men.

Umberger was last seen on Saturday, May 28, 2022 after a night out at the gay nightclub Q NYC, while town for a work trip.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

Earlier this year, Febary, the New York Cy Police Department nfirmed that three men who had vised The Eagle NYC, a gay leather bar, had fallen victim to a siar dggg and robbery scheme — although is unclear whether those victims were nnected to the 2021-2022 robberi. READ NEXT‘And Jt Like That’ Renewed for Season 3Attempt to Remove San Diego Library’s LGBTQ Books BackfirMan Breaks Woman’s Nose While Yellg Anti-Gay SlurCourt Allows Alabama’s Trans Health Care Ban to Take Effect.

6 members of a gang that preyed on gay men at Hell's Kchen nightclubs have been dicted over the "roofie" murrs of John Umberger and Jul Ramirez. Six members of a gang that preyed on gay men at Hell’s Kchen nightclubs have been dicted over the “roofie” murrs of John Umberger and Jul Ramirez last year.

1968: AFTER DOZENS OF ACQUTALS, POLICE FORCED TO END RAIDS ON GAY HAVEN

Both men were victims of homicis ed by “dg-facilated thefts, ” after leavg the Q NYC and Rz Bar and Lounge gay nightclubs, the ME found. Rose realized a gang was operatg Hell’s Kchen gay clubs, dggg victims and g sh apps on their phon to steal tens of thoands of dollars om their bank acunts.

Umberger, a Washgton, DC, polil nsultant, disappeared on Saturday, May 28, 2022, after a night out at The Q NYC, a gay nightclub at 795 Eighth Ave, while visg New York for work. An hour earlier he had been ptured by a secury mera wh three unintified men leavg the Rz Bar and Lounge, a gay club on Wt 46th Street, two blocks om Q NYC.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt was the fifth arrt nnected to a seri of dgggs and robberi that killed two men last Q bar Hell’s Kchen was one of the bars where victims were targeted the Moon for The New York TimA man whom the Police Department scribed as a lear of a gang that perpetrated a seri of robberi and killgs at Manhattan gay bars has been arrted, law enforcement officials said on man, Jayqwan Haton, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrted on Monday and charged wh murr, grand larceny and other crim nnectn wh the killgs of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger, two men who were dgged at bars Manhattan, robbed g facial regnn technology on their phon and later found ad of enforcement said the motive for the killgs was fancial, but the murrs neverthels terrorized the cy’s L. Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker om Queens, was dgged at the Rz, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, and left wh a group of men who abandoned his body the back of a taxi on the Lower East Si roughly one hour later, his fay month later, Mr. Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was dgged at the Q, a gay bar near the Rz, and was found ad five days later, his fay fai of both men disvered that money had been taken om their acunts after they died.

MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY

The documents said the assailants appeared to be motivated by money and not bias, and that attacks took place at tablishments that tered to both gay and straight patrons. Umberger led other New Yorkers to e forward wh stori of beg dgged and robbed at gay bars the cy. Several gay men who told The Tim they had been dgged said the police did not take their claims asked on Tuday if the police rponse had been fluenced by bias, Commissner Keechant L.

MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY

In the tumn of 1968, close to two dozen gay men were acquted of nsensual sodomy charg a seri of crimal trials on Long Island.

The trials and acqutals marked a pivotal moment what eventually beme the gay rights movement. They monstrated to the larger gay muny — then maly closeted — that gay people uld band together to rist police harassment.

MAN CHARGED WH KILLG BOY, 10, WHO REPORTEDLY ME OUT AS GAY

Stonewall is often seen as the birth of the morn gay rights movement. Cherry Grove is and was an important gay muny on Fire Island, which li off the southern shore of New York's Long Island.

It was an annual summer rual for police om Suffolk County, Long Island, to stage raids Cherry Grove, roundg up gay men engagg public sex. "Every year there was this tradn of raidg the gay muni of Fire Island and arrtg 25, 30, up to 40 fellas, and chargg them wh sodomy and other crim, " said Karl Grossman, who took a job at a daily newspaper lled the Long Island Prs 1964.

LURED INTO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY

He'd get a ll om the ps every summer and said the police were eager to feed him personal tails about the gay men they had arrted Cherry Grove. And gay people lived a double life, " said Esther Newton, a retired anthropology profsor who wrote a history of Cherry Grove.

Newton is one of the few anthropologists who have foced exclively on genr and gay culture. Her book, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town, chronicl Cherry Grove's growth om the 1920s on. The wood area where gay men had sex was known lloquially as 'the Meatrack.

"This was a strictly anonymo kd of thg and siar to what was gog on the gay baths.