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Contents:

• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• GAY BASHG
• FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL
• ‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS
• DA BABY SAYS HE REGRETS HOW HE HANDLED GAY-BASHG BACKLASH
• SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG
• MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• GAY BASHG
• A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG
• TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–MANDAR CHE DICTNARY
• GAY BASHG
• GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis. None of the aths had to occur, but they did bee each of the people was sent the msage that was better to be ad than to be gay. Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted.

Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live. And while we often thk of children or teens when we thk gay bullyg, bullyg occurs adult suatns, such as the workplace, as well.

GAY BASHG

Many anizatns are dited to stop gay bashg and gay bullyg and there are more and more iativ lolly, like high schools, to stop gay bashg. Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.

From middle schoolers beg tnted wh antigay slurs to lbians beg murred for showg affectn public, bias-related vlence ntu to threaten the LGBT muny.

But some good has e out of too: Some of the more poignant gay-bashg cints have l a fire unr policians to help clu sexual orientatn and genr inty the tegori of thgs that make an act of vlence a hate crime.

FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL

He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform. Higgbotham quickly realized was not a legimate police operatn, but stead a brazen and public mob attack by uniform police targetg gay men. "Eventually, I unrstood that this was beatg gay people and was beatg gay people wh alumum tncheons and was done by on-duty uniformed police.

"The cliffs surroundg the greater Sydney area NSW were popular wh members of the gay muny lookg to hook up durg the 1970s and '80s.

Homophobic groups of men and youth would asslt and often murr gay men, throwg them or forcg them to leap om the cliffs onto the rocks below.

‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS

"He relled one ocsn where a gay man approached him on the street while Higgbotham was uniform, reportg he had been a victim of gay bashg.

SAN FRANCISCO — Beaten by a roamg pack of thugs out for a summer’s “night of outrage, ” his head bounced off a curb, John Dennis O’Connell died 10 days was attacked solely bee he was a unprovoked asslts, sometim lled “gay bashg, ” have long been a form of homosexual harassment towns and ci where sizable gay populatns draw San Francis, wh a reputatn as a homosexual haven and an timated gay populatn of 15% of 700, 000 people, some say attacks are risg, spe efforts by gay advot and police to put the bashers behd Seidler, the Police Department’s liaison officer wh the gay muny, said the attackers are most often out-of-town toughs who e to the cy exprsly to hunt homosexuals or cy rints rentful of homosexuals sharg their neighborhoods and public of Exposure to AIDSThe latt twist, Seidler said, is attacks by youths who claim that homosexuals are exposg them to AIDS, the adly disease that most monly strik gay men. “One of the thgs you thk about every sgle day when you walk outsi of your hoe is that you uld be a victim of an asslt based on your sexual orientatn--’s drilled , ” said Randy Schell, a unselor wh Communy Uned Agast Vlence, a neighborhood group the largely gay Castro Street area.

DA BABY SAYS HE REGRETS HOW HE HANDLED GAY-BASHG BACKLASH

“It all go back to the old ncept that gay people are weak and they’re ferr and they’re not gog to try to protect themselv and they’re real easy victims, ” he ncept is changg even as the number of attacks ntu to rise, Schell said; more and more homosexuals are fightg back when attacked or are prosecutg their attackers.

”Faz said some lawyers thought that the O’Connell se was blown out of proportn bee of prsure om the gay muny, which hailed the sentenc as a victory. “(The fendants) sgled out an intifiable group of people and be the people homosexual, black, Jewish, some ethnic mory or somethg like that mak no difference.

”Timothy Whe, 23, and David Rogers, Donnie Clanton and Doug Barr, all 21, had driven 40 to San Francis om their hom Vallejo on July 29, 1984, wh the exprsed tent of “gay bashg, ” Faz said. Frank Reed said the Police Department kept no numbers for attacks on homosexuals but said they were a small percentage of the cy’s total asslts, which numbered 12, 000 1985. Communy Uned, fanced by the cy and through grants, is tryg to stop the attacks through tn and agency sends speakers to school and civic assembli to talk about the gay muny and teach homosexuals how to protect themselv, Vazquez said.

SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG

Durg a recent terview, Da Baby exprsed his regret for mishandlg the backlash he faced after his homophobic Rollg Loud rant. Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough. The prospect of beg gay bashed is que sry, but Carolyne Haycraft, the executive director of EMERJ-SafeNow, an anizatn that teach cultural-specific strategi for preventg vlence, says there’s no need to nstantly fear beg attacked and has suggtns for effective gay bashg fense that uld help you learn how to survive a gay bashg.

Together wh Aman Weaver, a lbian woman who works as an EMERJ-SafeNow facilator and curriculum veloper, the two have tght gay bashg fense class to LGBTQ people. Also, if your statn is a nservative area (filled wh possible queer-phob), a place of drkg or an area known for gay bashgs, prepare to be extra vigilant, keepg your ey and ears open.

MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH

While fear and tun n be helpful a dangero suatns, Haycraft says, stayg clear-head n also help when figurg out how to survive a gay bashg. Sce alhol and other dgs are often part of gay and public scen — and n crease aggrsn or crease awarens — Weaver suggts beg extra mdful and thkg ahead if you’re head to a place where dgs will be ed.

Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame. (It should be noted that Jerry Falwell isn’t on this list bee he is no longer alive to see the gay zombie briga oblerate the earth. Homosexualy his ey is not only a s but a sickns, and gay people are perverted and supposedly suffer om ma-up ailments like "gay bowel syndrome.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down.

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

Dennis Terry, Greenwell Sprgs Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, LAPastor Terry has publicly equated gays wh alholics, dg ers, liars, and thiev. When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt. Lake Inpennt Baptist Church, Oakland, MDPastor Dennis Leatherman’s fifty-mute sermon tled “Homosexualy and the Bible” scribed his ternal stggle.

GAY BASHG

Apparently, the part of the Preamble of the Constutn about “formg a more perfect unn” fot the adndum "so long as that unn isn't gay.

A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG

In a sermon given April 2012, Pastor Harris took that to a whole new level wh his solutn to the gay problem: punch gay-actg children. ” Yup, that’ll teach ‘em, pecially bee nothg says “my son is gay” like a limp d of his sermon leaked onle, Fahful Ameri gathered 10, 000 signatur om people pletely appalled by Harris’ statements. The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays.

When evangelist Billy Graham left the polil sil to support North Carola’s anti-gay marriage iative, Phelps actually said Graham didn’t go far enough and began prottg Graham, too.

No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia. ”The notor former police officer, Roger Rogerson, was based at the statn at the time, but the now-faiar stori of protectn money, pay-offs om crime boss and ps on the take at Darlghurst, Surry Hills and Kgs Cross police statns have missed another, arguably more signifint story: how police were allegedly bashg gay men.

TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–MANDAR CHE DICTNARY

”Higgbotham was mystified by the anger directed towards gay men by the officers, “which isn’t what you would have expected the middle of a gay area”.

GAY BASHG

The pth of that anger beme abundantly clear to Higgbotham when he arrted a man for a gay bashg that happened only blocks away om the statn.

After the victim, the edor of a gay newspaper, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, he was seen as some kd of avenger and protector for the gay muny by at least two senr staff at the statn, who subjected him to a soul-stroyg bullyg mpaign, at s nastit durg the ‘taskg para’ at the mencement of each shift, when jobs were alloted.

GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)

‘” Higgbotham was not sulted by beg labelled a homosexual by his tormentors – for the rerd Higgbotham is heterosexual – but bee they were g that word to try to mean and stroy him.