In a new book, journalist Elon Green explor the unr-reported stori of gay men btally murred by a killer who evad jtice for a
Contents:
- HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
- HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
- NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L
- LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
- NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
- NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS
HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
Five people were killed and many more jured a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. Here's what we know about the ad. * gay bar victims *
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HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
Five people were killed and many more jured a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. Here's what we know about the ad. * gay bar victims *
"Army vet who took down Colorado gunman says ‘I’m not a hero’ "I'm not a hero, " clared the Army veteran who helped subdue a gunman at a Colorado gay nightclub, addg that his thoughts are wh the fai of the five people sla. "Authori intify victims who were fatally shot at Club QAuthori Colorado Sprgs intified the five victims Tuday who were fatally wound at a gay nightclub over the weekend. — Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman si a gay nightclub Saturday night Colorado Sprgs, endg a rampage that killed at least five people and jured 19 others, his wife said an terview at her home Monday afternoon, Jsi Fierro scribed her hband’s heroic efforts to prevent greater tragedy.
He was a member of the universy's GayStraight Alliance, Mabery said, and was "very active" the school's LGBTQ muny.
A report released Augt by the Human Rights Campaign, the untry's largt LGBTQ rights group, and the non-ernmental anizatn Center for Counterg Digal Hate, found anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged onle earlier this year the wake of the passage of Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. Poet Jam Davis "proudly named [the book] after a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, " acrdg to his webse. We nmn the horrific vlence that shattered an eveng of celebratn for all the LGBTQ muny of Colorado Sprgs and our alli, " the nightclub said a statement released through the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD).
NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L
Two gay men who end up ad wh their bank acunts draed after leavg New York Cy bars last year were both homici victims, thori said Friday. * gay bar victims *
Two gay men who end up ad wh their bank acunts draed after leavg New York Cy bars last year were both homici victims, thori said men died separate cints. Invtigators wanted to know more about the aths of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger and if they were among “several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt, " police said at the Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThe aths of both men have been led homicis ed by a "dg-facilated theft, " the Office of Chief Medil Examer said Friday.
A month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell’s Kchen gay bar, the Q.
LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
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Umberger’s ath was ed by "acute toxitn by the bed effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, e, lidoe and ethanol, " the medil examer members of the two men uld not immediately be reached for ment the months followg the aths, more gay New Yorkers me forward wh acunts that had siari. The NYPD also nfirmed addnal acunts of grand larceni at other New York Cy gay bars that rembled Ramirez's and Umberger's s.
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.
NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed. “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.
NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS
’ 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.