‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

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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. 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. Six others, who were wound by bullets fired by Gay, later revered, but they and many others who were prent and wnsed the shootg were left emotnally srred, the Roanoke Tim reported.

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

In the weeks followg the shootg, news media outlets, cludg the Washgton Bla and the Washgton Post, reported fdgs of an vtigatn by lol police that Gay told police he went to Backstreet specifilly to target gay people bee he beme bter after years of beg tnted and teased for his last name of “Gay. The Roanoke Tim reported that, among other thgs, Gay told police “God told him to do ” and that he once wrote that there was an evil si of him tellg him “to shoot or have no rt.

Gay later plead guilty to multiple charg agast him, cludg murr. The Backstreet cint Roanoke was nsired by LGBTQ rights advot and others to be one of the worst cints which LGBTQ people were targeted for a shootg until the June 2016 shootg at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., which 49 people died and 53 more were wound a mass shootg by 29-year-old Omar Mateen.