The day an unstable man opened fire on Gay Street

Contents:

• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• THE DAY AN UNSTABLE MAN OPENED FIRE ON GAY STREET

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

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NEW YORK’S OWN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE, NOW BARELY REMEMBERED

“Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green. Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green.

’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then. In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer. Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock.

THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. Back that benighted era, gay bars were often “the one refuge om the perils of everyday life”, said Green. At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se.

As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay. ”The words appeared on the ont page of a gay newspaper, heraldg an article about bar patrons beg gunned down where they stood. Cmpley opened fire outsi a li at Washgton and Charl Streets, cuttg down Richard Huff, 30, and Rene Matute, gunman then ma his way to Wt Street, between 10th and Christopher Streets, a blockont shared by the Ramrod, a popular leather bar, and Sneakers, a gay dive.

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THE DAY AN UNSTABLE MAN OPENED FIRE ON GAY STREET

Alwood wrote “Straight News: Gays, Lbians and the News Media. “I’ll kill them all — the gays — they everythg, ” he was reported to have nowhere near as adly as the shootg at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Fla., or the arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge New Orleans that killed 32 1973, the Wt Street rampage chills those who remember .