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18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
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Last March, when gay 24-year-old Daniel Zamud was beaten so severely, after havg swastikas rved to his sk, that he died the hospal three weeks later, the btal murr shocked Chileans and spurred the ernment there to fast-track LGBT antidiscrimatn legislatn. S., over the last 50 more than 70 untri prepare to observe the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia May 17, crimologists, activists, and survivors many ci have been discsg ways to al wh crim agast -- and ocsnally by -- LGBT folks.
HOUSTON'S STONEWALLOn July 4, 1991, a 27-year-old Hoton banker was murred and his two iends jured by a group of 10 young men who attacked them wh nail-studd woon planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outsi Heaven, a gay bar the cy's heavily LGBT Montrose district.
" Wh days of Brosard's murr, all l5 members of Hoton's Cy Council (cludg on who had opposed gay rights ordanc prevly) voted for a rolutn askg then-ernor Ann Richards to put a hate-crim bill on the legislature's 10 men were nvicted of the killg. Acrdg to the Dallas Voice, there have been 35 people killed the neighborhood sce a pastor's gay teenage son was killed 1979, cludg Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was stabbed December 2010, ped his attacker and sought refuge a lol gay club, and was turned away only to be found aga by his attacker, who killed HAMPTON ROADS KILLERFrom 1987 to 1996, 12 gay or bisexual men were strangled to ath and dumped an area of Virgia lled Hampton Roads. "On May 6, 1997, police arrted Jackson Elton Manng for the murr of a gay man named Andrew "Andre" Smh, the most recent of the victims, who had been found strangled by a ligature and dumped the Hampton Roads area.
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"In sence, the town of Newark lived through what Laramie did as the lol school performed a play about the very same experience, " remembers Cathy Renna, the former news director of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. In June of 2004, the same month the jury Gwen's murr trial adlocked, the petn was granted and Gwen's name was HANDCUFF MANFor s, bartenrs, htlers, and gay clubgoers Atlanta's Ponce Leon rridor -- an area where gay sex tra was mon -- circulated mors about a myster man who mutilated and murred young gay and bisexual men. Jordan's attack galvanized lol lbian and gay lears, who then urged police to take the stori of the Handcuff Man serly, at one pot gettg police pta Ken Bol to adm that they activists had a pot, that the partment's sex crim un had been slow to rpond (a day later, flacks said Bol was misquoted).
McKney received two life terms whout possibily of Fred Phelps, lear of the Wtboro Baptist Church Kansas, picketed Shepard's funeral wh signs that read "Fag Matt Hell" and "No Tears for Queers, " the murr led to a sea change how the public -- om Hollywood to Peoria -- viewed gay people as well as the need for sexual orientatn and genr inty hate-crim protectns. "Some lol activists also dicted the black muny of Newark, argug that homophobia kept the mayor and black polil lears om dog more to help LGBT youth and om payg attentn to a bias murr where both the victim and the perpetrator were black.
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"As wh Shepard, and Brandon Teena, Gunn's life was memorialized on film Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project, a powerful doc that dissects both the homophobia that ed this murr and qutns the lack of media verage of her, that police booth on the rner near where Gunn was killed is staffed 24 hours a day, a promise former Newark mayor Sharpe Jam ma 2002.