Rsia's gays fear more vlence after btal murr | Rters

Contents:

• THE MURDGH'S FAY'S LKS TO MYSTER ATHS - CLUDG GAY NURSG STUNT - UNR SCTY
• MURDGH MURR MYSTERY: DEATH OF STEPHEN SMH, GAY MAN FOUND NEAR FAY'S PROPERTY, RULED A HOMICI
• RSIA'S GAYS FEAR MORE VLENCE AFTER BTAL MURR
• RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
• WHO WAS STEPHEN SMH? MURDGH DOUBLE MURR LKED TO 2015 ATH OF GAY MAN

THE MURDGH'S FAY'S LKS TO MYSTER ATHS - CLUDG GAY NURSG STUNT - UNR SCTY

Earlier this year, a bombshell Netflix special implied that Smh, who was openly gay, had a secret romantic relatnship wh Bter. The gay man was found facg up on a ral Hampton County road on July 8, 2015.

Beekhuizen said one place Smh hung out was Bobt Landg, a public boat ramp leadg to a swimmg area Bamberg, SC, that is also known as a gay cisg area and a place where opids are bought and sold. The fay's lks to ath of 19-year-old openly gay nursg stunt Stephen Smh, whose name 'was lked wh Bter's, ' the Murdgh's elst son, is also unr vtigatn, prevly reported.

Four years before the crash, Stephen Smh, 19, was found ad the middle of a untry road 15 om the Murdgh fay's Islandton huntg lodge on July 8, 's ath was led a h-and-n, but his mother Sandy has always mataed that her son, who was gay, was the victim of a hate crime and the murr was vered up. "We have to hire a properly crentialed crimal forensic expert who n exhume a body and terme a e of ath based on somebody beg a ff for a long perd of time, " the Smh fay's attorney, Eric Bland, tells Insi was openly gay, and acrdg to a Netflix documentary on the Murdgh murrs, he was mored to have had a relatnship wh body was found on a lonely untry road near the Murdgh tate, wh his r three away and apparently out of gas. —The mother of a young gay man who was found ad on a remote road near the Murdgh fay’s home is mandg answers about her son’s myster ath the wake of Alex Murdgh’s nvictn.

MURDGH MURR MYSTERY: DEATH OF STEPHEN SMH, GAY MAN FOUND NEAR FAY'S PROPERTY, RULED A HOMICI

Solis wasn’t there but said people who were told her a man began harassg one of Smh’s iends and tossed homophobic slurs, acrdg to The Oregonian. The mother of Stephen Smh, whose unsolved ath six years ago on a South Carola ral roadsi was reopened somehow nnectn to the June double murrs of Alex Murdgh’s wife and younger son, is speakg out new on-mera terviews this terviews e amid a new movement seekg jtice for the openly gay teenager whose fay still hasn’t been able to afford him a proper headstone.

His mother has long believed was a hate crime and her son was killed for beg gay. "I do thk was bee he was gay, " she said. " Andrews’ father is the owner of Capal Courtland, the longt operatg gay bar the southeast and olst Columbia, South Carola.

Nam and stori of the Murdgh fay surfaced six years ago regardg the ath of 19-year-old Stephen Smh, a young gay man found ad the middle of a lonely ral road wh several ep gash his head, but vtigators said they were never able to directly nnect anyone the fay to the cint. They — they were gay and well-liked, Stephen attend the same high school as Bter Murdgh. He was an openly gay young man the small town of Hampton, South Carola, which wasn’t easy, but he ma the bt of , his iends told FITSNews.

RSIA'S GAYS FEAR MORE VLENCE AFTER BTAL MURR

Then they cshed his head wh a heavy dance at a private gay club lled "Malevich" St. Along wh a planned new law banng the spread of gay "propaganda" among mors, Print Vladimir Put has also overseen a relig revival that aims to give the Orthodox Church, whose lear has suggted that homosexualy is one of the ma threats to Rsia, a more public role as a moral thory.

RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

The number of documented s of vlence agast gays Rsia is low. But there are no official figur on anti-gay crime Rsia, and gay rights mpaigners say the numbers available mask the te number of attacks on gays, lbians, bisexual and transgenr people. REUTERS/Alexanr DemianchA 23-year-old man Rsia’s southern cy of Volgograd was tortured and killed after revealg he was gay durg a drkg ssn last Thursday night, vtigators said, takg a rare step by lkg a murr to victim’s 22-year-old iend and a former nvict aged 27 were taed for the attack, which gay rights activists say is a btal example of risg vlence agast homosexuals the year sce Print Vladimir Put latched on to fay valu to shore up support Rsia’s largely nservative wh a planned new law banng the spread of gay “propaganda” among mors, Put has also overseen a relig revival that aims to give the Orthodox Church, whose lear has suggted that homosexualy is one of the ma threats to Rsia, a more public role as a moral rights mpaigner Nikolai Alexeyev said the draft law, which uld be passed this month, and Put’s cricism of gays for failg to help Rsia’s populatn cle, amounted to “a ll to actn for the scum who mted this crime”.

WHO WAS STEPHEN SMH? MURDGH DOUBLE MURR LKED TO 2015 ATH OF GAY MAN

“It sentially giv the people rte blanche to m such crim, ” he said of the law, a lol versn of which is already place Rsia’s send cy of St number of documented s of vlence agast gays Rsia is low. Rights group Sova, which tracks extremist vlence, says vlence agast gays has risen sharply - but om only three rerd attacks 2011 to 12 there are no official figur on anti-gay crime Rsia, and gay rights mpaigners say the numbers available mask the te number of attacks on gays, lbians, bisexual and transgenr people. ”Lawyer Maria Kozlovskaya, who works wh the LGBT muny, pots to an ter poll late last year that found 15 percent of about 900 LGBT people surveyed Rsia said they had been physilly attacked at least once the prev 10 MUZHIK RULESGay activists say the ernment’s nservative polici offer “unspoken support” for vlence.

This, they say, uld even have ma the spects the Volgograd murr scribe their victim as gay to w some sympathy. “I thk they may want to say, ‘Look, we killed a gay person and not a regular, normal person’, ” Alexeyev Gapchenko, a senr vtigator Volgograd, said one of the spects had admted torturg the victim.