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Contents:

• FATAL STABBG OF NYC GAY MAN IS BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE HATE CRIME
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• SPECT INTIFIED ATH OF GAY MAN WHO WAS STABBED FOR VOGUG AT BROOKLYN GAS STATN
• KILLER ‘JENNY JON’ GAY CSH MURR RELEASED OM PRISON
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• DEADLY STABBG OF GAY MAN AT NYC GAS STATN VTIGATED AS POTENTIAL HATE CRIME

FATAL STABBG OF NYC GAY MAN IS BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE HATE CRIME

A 28-year-old gay man was stabbed to ath Brooklyn over the weekend, what thori are vtigatg as a possible hate crime. “They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Pena, who scribed Sibley as “the salt to my pepper, ” said the vio. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is gay and whose district clus many of the cy’s historilly gay neighborhoods, tweeted Monday.

“Dpe homophob’ bt efforts, gay joy is not crime. ”New York Cy Councilman Erik Bottcher, who is gay and whose district also clus many of the cy’s gayborhoods, lled on thori to punish Sibley’s killers. They ed anti-gay slurs agast him.

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

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day.

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Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

SPECT INTIFIED ATH OF GAY MAN WHO WAS STABBED FOR VOGUG AT BROOKLYN GAS STATN

"Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said. Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said. "The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy.

A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct. Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred.

KILLER ‘JENNY JON’ GAY CSH MURR RELEASED OM PRISON

McKney went to trial, and fense attorneys argued his vlent actns were "gay panic" -- a reactn to Shepard makg a sexual advance. "When the fense gets out there and starts talkg out of, the victim's flt, you know, 'gay panic, '... "The "gay panic" fense is still legal most stat but has been outlawed a few.

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Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns. "Beyond the feral hate crime law, the years sce Matthew Shepard's ath, among the most substantive legislative ws for the LGBTQ muny were the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell 2010, so gay ary members n serve openly whout fear of beg dismissed, and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the untry 2015. Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc. Police have reportedly intified the 17-year-old spected of stabbg a gay dancer to ath at a Brooklyn gas statn over the weekend. There is nothg wrong wh beg gay.

“They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Pena said an emotnal vio posted to Facebook. We may be gay, but we exist. Dpe homophob' bt efforts, gay joy is not crime.

“They ed anti-gay slurs agast him.

DEADLY STABBG OF GAY MAN AT NYC GAS STATN VTIGATED AS POTENTIAL HATE CRIME

"Police said at a news nference yterday they have evince showg Webb and Mann, who was out, were volved an onle relatnship for about four months, and that Webb was fearful Mann would expose their relatnship and out Webb as gay on social media. A Michigan man who murred a gay admirer three days after the victim revealed his same-sex csh on the “Jenny Jon” talk show has been set ee after 22 years prison.

In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.

In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them.