Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians.
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- MAN NVICTED 2000 VIRGIA GAY BAR SHOOTG DI PRISON
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
MAN NVICTED 2000 VIRGIA GAY BAR SHOOTG DI PRISON
Ronald Edward Gay died while servg life sentenc for attackg a Virgia gay bar. A man sentenced to four nsecutive life terms prison for the September 2000 shootg at a gay bar Roanoke, Virgia, which one man lost his life and six others were wound, died of natural on Jan.
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
A spokperson for the Department of Correctns told WSLS 10 TV News that Ronald Edward Gay died while beg treated at a hospal near the Deerfield Correctnal Center, a state prison where he had been livg as an mate.
Wns and law enforcement officials reported at the time of the shootg that a middle-aged man later intified as Gay arrived alone at Roanoke’s Backstreet Café, a popular gay bar, on the night of Sept. Acrdg to an acunt by an eyewns to the cint who spoke last week wh the Roanoke Tim newspaper, after orrg a beer and standg next to the bar for a short time, Gay reached to the long trench at he was wearg, pulled out a 9mm pistol, and fired a round “straight to the cht of 43-year-old Danny Overstreet, before openg fire on the rt of the bar.