Alleged 'gay panic fense' Texas murr trial stuns advot

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
• MAN ED GAY DATG APP TO TARGET PERSON HE EVENTUALLY KILLED, PUTI SAY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• INVTIGATE GAY UPLE’S BTAL MURR MEXI AS A HATE CRIME, ADVOT SAY
• TEXAS DAD KILLED DGHTER, HER LBIAN LOVER BEE HE DISLIKED THAT SHE WAS GAY: MOM
• WH FOUR GAY MEN SLA, TEXAS REVISS ISSUE OF HATE CRIME
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• ALLEGED 'GAY PANIC FENSE' TEXAS MURR TRIAL STUNS ADVOT
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. That kd of "gay panic" fense is outlawed California and Illois but not Texas, where Daniel Spencer was stabbed to jury went easy on Miller last week when issued a sentence of 10 years probatn.

Miller's lawyers argued that although there was no physil altertn, he felt danger bee at age 66 he was olr and shorter, so he killed the 32-year-old gay man his own home.

TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN

The fense is premised on the ia that a straight, cis man would jtifiably be so enraged by a gay or transgenr person makg a pass at him that attackg or even killg that person is excable.

"Je Steven Lopez-Merdo, age 19, was pated, dismembered and burned for beg openly gay, but acrdg to the police vtigator on the se, 'people who live this liftyle need to be aware that this will happen. Tyler, Texas – A young gay Texan kidnapped, tortured, and murred East Texas will be remembered at at plaque-layg ceremony at the park om which he was kidnapped October 1993.

Project TAG (Tyler Area Gays) and Tyler AIDS Servic plan to place a plaque honorg Nilas Wt Bergfeld Park on World AIDS Day, December 1, acrdg to the Dallas Voice. Aldrich said, “If you n walk to a 7-11 and rob a 7-11 for 15, 20 bucks, get your face on viotape, have somebody that’s gonna ll the police; or if you n go to a park, rob somebody that’s out the dark, e away wh a hell of a lot more – bee of the fact that they’re homosexual and they don’t want people to know , they’re not gonna go report to the police. ” At the time of Aldrich’s sentencg to ath 1994, Diana Hardy-Garcia, executive of the Lbian and Gay Rights Lobby told the prs, “In Texas, there is a history of valug the liv of gay men and lbians, which means people who murr them tend to receive lighter sentence bee of who their victims are.

MAN ED GAY DATG APP TO TARGET PERSON HE EVENTUALLY KILLED, PUTI SAY

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Some of those homicis have sce been solved, but back then, the gay muny North Texas worried there might be a serial killer targetg them after seven gay men were sla over a five-year span. Dallas’ gay muny was on edge after the Dallas Voice, a publitn for the gay muny North Texas, reported 2005 that 28-year-old Samuel Lea, who had been found murred his Arlgton apartment, was the latt a five-year strg of unsolved slaygs of gay men. A neighborhood crime watch sign hangs at Knight Street and Hall the Oak Lawn neighborhood, near the lotn where Geofey Hubbard was attacked after leavg work last November a strg of asslts on gay men.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe man, Daniel Jenks, was part of a group that ed the app Grdr to lure gay men to an apartment plex Dallas to rob and asslt them, prosecutors said.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

20, 2021A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years feral prison on Wednday for his nnectn a scheme that ed the popular datg app Grdr to target gay men for vlent hate crim, prosecutors County's Sheriff's DepartmentThe man, Daniel Jenks, 22, of Dallas, plead guilty June to one unt of nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg, rjackg, one hate crime unt and one unt of g a firearm durg and relatn to a crime of vlence, the Department of Jtice said a Jenks was the last of four fendants to be sentenced the nspiracy that ed Grdr, a social media app that is ed primarily by gay men. “This fendant targeted nocent victims for vlent crim simply bee he believed they were gay, ” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Jtice Department’s Civil Rights Divisn said the statement.

INVTIGATE GAY UPLE’S BTAL MURR MEXI AS A HATE CRIME, ADVOT SAY

Jenks admted, acrdg to prosecutors, that he and others “lured multiple victims” to an apartment plex, poted a handgun at them, robbed them of their belonggs and asslted them, jurg one of Jenks told vtigators that members of his group ed gay slurs and tnted the victims and that one member attempted to sexually asslt one of the victims, the Department of Jtice said. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

The group’s director, Karen Arvizo, told the Daily Mail she’s worried the gome murrs will go unsolved — much like many other spected hate crim targetg Mexi’s gay muni. The teen was voted most school spir and had a steady durg the vtigatn of his parents' murrs, thori disvered that while Woodff attend Abilene Christian Universy, he would go dancg at gay clubs, was datg men and had even traveled out of state to participate adult Sunday October 16, 2005, Woodff vised his parents at their new home Royse Cy, Texas.

TEXAS DAD KILLED DGHTER, HER LBIAN LOVER BEE HE DISLIKED THAT SHE WAS GAY: MOM

ABCDurg jury selectn, eight out of twelve jurors told the urt that they believed homosexualy was morally wrong, but they were still allowed to serve on the jury after promisg the urt they uld be fair toward Woodff. In 2005 people still felt that homosexualy was immoral bee eight of the 12 jurors on Brandon's se specifilly said was immoral, ” said Philip Crawford, the thor of a book lled "Railroad" about Woodff's News spoke wh several jurors who said Woodff’s sexualy wasn’t a factor the jury's prison, supporters have started a movement to ee Brandon and now the Innocence Project of Texas has taken his se. "Unls you live a handful of big ci, 's legal unr state law to fire, refe service to or refe to rent to someone bee they're lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

WH FOUR GAY MEN SLA, TEXAS REVISS ISSUE OF HATE CRIME

His dghter and her grandmother lived at the home and let him move his bedroom, which Cook scribed as a nverted garage, the murr spect had a py of the Koran open to a page which talks about homosexualy as a s, fay advote Quanell X told KHOU. (Galvton Sheriff's Office)"It's que unfortunate but he had a real, real warped unrstandg, my opn, of the relign of Islam and s posn on the gay liftyle and what one should do, " Quanell X, though, say they are still searchg for a motive the gome Daily News FlashWeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stori every weekday afternoon. He mt have known, as any gay the state mt have known, about the btal killg of Nicholas Wt the publitn of Benny Hogan’s name the newspaper, the issue of his sexual preference was no longer private.

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

Weren’t they aware of the ramifitns of labelg someone gay a place such as San Anton, a place that one of the edors himself scribed as “nservative, fundamental, and unchangg”? As proof, the Hogans were hand a sheaf of articl om over the years showg how the nam of spects had been prted other police sweeps, although none of the volved alleged homosexual activy. “It was not a good policy for the paper to prt those nam, ” said Rivard, who dited that the policy was changed to reflect a greater unrstandg of gays by the newspaper.

ALLEGED 'GAY PANIC FENSE' TEXAS MURR TRIAL STUNS ADVOT

But off the rerd, someone very faiar wh the newspaper and the kds of people who work si nfirms Sandra Hogan’s spicns that the list was tend to be exactly what turned out to be—a homosexual blacklist. It was that look of tense, wi-eyed anticipatn, of unbridled pleasure, on the face of Corey Burley as he prepared to shoot the two gay men huddled before him on a perfect October night the image hnts Hugh always TRAIL.

Acrdg to the clippgs, there were two 16-year-old teenagers wh McCartney that night, and they both ttified that the origal tentn had been to pick up a homosexual om a lol park and then rob him.

But the clippgs also showed that when the issue of Rub’s homosexualy was raised by the fense attorneys the prosecutor the se vigoroly protted bee she thought such rmatn would prejudice the jury agast the victim. Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived Irvg, near Dallas, three gay men have been btally sla this last year separate cints, all volvg repeated stabbgs well beyond those that ed ath.

KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

A spect was taken to ctody last weekend and has been charged one Hoton, the police recently arrted four football stars om a lol high school and charged them wh the July murr of a gay man outsi a nightclub here. The police said the teen-agers were lookg for money to buy cloth and had cid that a gay man would be their easit slaygs, along wh what gay-rights lears say are dozens of cints which gay men and lbians have been robbed or asslted recent months, have drawn wi public attentn and prompted advot for homosexuals to renew lls for creased police protectn of homosexuals and for creased penalti for crim that arise om anti-gay strg of slaygs has also revived cricism of a broad hate-crime law enacted by the Texas Legislature last year.

Concerns About SocietyDianne Hardy-Garcia, the executive director of the Lbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, said an terview today that anti-gay vlence should be specified as protected the law bee, she said, many people still believed that harassment of homosexuals was s of such harassment e at the hands of teen-age boys, like the on now acced the Hoton murr, Ms. Still, the police Irvg said today that they were not prepared to classify the killgs officially as anti-gay vlence and that one man might have died a dispute over dgs, not his sexual Friday, police officers om Dallas and Irvg ptured 33-year-old Edw Bernard Perks, who was on parole om Arkansas after servg sentenc for aggravated robbery, attempted murr and rryg a prohibed police charged Mr. 18 murr of Larry David Allen, a gay man who was stabbed to ath wh a steak knife and thrown through the plate-glass wdow of a motel near Texas Stadium Travis Hall, the head of the crimal vtigatns divisn for the Irvg police, said that the police now nsired Mr.

" Killg Sparks ConcernIn the Dallas area, gay-rights lears said that while the apparent serial slaygs of the gay men had attracted attentn for obv reasons, more mon cints of robberi and harassment of homosexuals were often unreported, sometim by those killg Hoton's Montrose neighborhood of 29-year-old Michael J.