KGOV's List of Gay Mass Murrers |

Contents:

• QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
• ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL

Milwkee’s gay muny was ed to people g and gog and no one—police or civilian—had nnected any of the disappearanc or nsired that there might be a serial killer among them. When the police arrived, Dahmer claimed Simthasophone was his boyiend and he’d jt had too much to drk after a police ma a uple gay jok before helpg Dahmer take his victim back to his apartment.

D, an ITV drama picts Nilsen’s arrt, terrogatn and trial cludg how police bias and homophobia assisted Nilsen is gettg away wh murr when he uld have been ught much earlier. Like Tirella, Kanagaratnam was also a victim of the media, the police, and a society that ignored his worth favor of a more nvenient his recent book Missg From the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bce McArthur, the Search for Jtice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Communy, thor Jt Lg reveals how the tersectns of racism, homophobia, transphobia, and police procr fail queer and trans people. "The gay journalist behd the CBC podst Unver, which examed ld s om the 1970s that were reopened as a rult of the McArthur vtigatn, Lg spent five years of -pth reportg to tell the full story of police failure, to tail how the queer muny rpond, and to share the liv of the eight men who went missg and the liv they left behd.

"Wayne Lonergan (Getty) and a lurid newspaper headle durg his trial ()Leve, who spent 18 months rearchg urt and police rerds for Details Are Unprtable, found that media verage also played a role the early-1940s murr nvictn of Wayne Lonergan, a closeted gay or bi man, for killg his wealthy wife. "Given the lack of any physil evince, which today might e a jury to have doubts, the tense publicy about Lonergan's sexualy no doubt ntributed to a prenceived and negative bias about him the mds of a typil 1940s male heterosexual jury, whose members subscribed to the antigay attus of the era, " Leve says. The lower statistic of 43% ced above is the proportn who were homosexual among people who molted or raped and then murred children: 43% of the perpetrators were homosexuals.

‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

Prumably, if the sample size were expand to clu a wir range of years, the proportn of serial killers who are homosexuals would rema between the proportn this study who are serial killers (69% homosexuals vers 31% heterosexuals) and the proportn of all killers this study (43% homosexual vers 57% heterosexual). Of the 217 victims, at least 68% were victimized by homosexual perpetrators, and at least 67% were boys… Furthermore, both multiple perpetrators and multiple victims were associated wh homosexualy. In addn, the proportn of victims attributed to homosexual perpetrators who raped and murred was higher than the proportn attributed to homosexuals who only raped or molted (68% vs.

Both of the sourc timated that about a third of child molters engage homosexualy — siar to the 41% of male perpetrators who ‘only’ raped the unrage the newspaper database. In an terview 1994… Warren said that he was stck wh how equently homosexualy turned up the s…: Although the motive listed the report was often robbery or theft, he said that “about 50% of the time” was associated wh homosexualy….

KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

[The mory of the populatn that is homosexual] also acunts for around a third of child molters, ms between a third to two-thirds of child rap, and may be volved up to half of all murrs….

The bt scientific evince suggts that puttg society’s stamp of approval on homosexual partnerships would harm society general and homosexuals particular, the very dividuals some ntend would be helped. A large body of scientific evince suggts that homosexual marriage is a fective unterfe of tradnal marriage and that pos a clear and prent danger to the health of the muny:. Although gay activists often argue that legalizg homosexual marriage would help make such relatnships more permanent, the realy is that most gays sire variety their sex partners, not the monogamy of tradnal marriage.

Across the world, numero rearchers have reported that ‘mted’ or ‘upled’ homosexuals are more apt to engage highly risky and blogilly unsanary sexual practic than are ‘sgle’ gays. In a sample of London gays(6) 1987, those fected wh HIV were more apt to have regular partners than those not so 1989, Italian rearchers(14) vtigated 127 gays attendg an AIDS clic. A 1993 Brish sexual diary study(16) of 385 gays reported that men “monogamo” relatnships practiced more anal terurse and more anal-oral sex than those whout a steady partner.

THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

In 1992, a sample(17) of 2, 593 gays om Tucson, AZ and Portland, OR rerced the nsistent fdg that “gay men primary relatnships are signifintly more likely than sgle men to have engaged unprotected anal terurse. The evince is also strong that gays disproportnately ntract more disease, pecially AIDS and the var forms of hepatis, om sex wh “partners” than they do om sex wh strangers. In 1996, (21) San Holt, ordator of the domtic vlence un of the Los Angel Gay Lbian Center, said that “domtic vlence is the third largt health problem facg the gay and lbian muny today and trails only behd AIDS and substance abe… terms of sheer numbers and lethaly.

In 1995, a homosexual domtic vlence nsortium nducted a study(28) six ci Chigo, Columb, Mneapolis, New York, San Diego, and San Francis where reports of anti-homosexual harassment or same sex domtic vlence were tabulated. Natnwi, (29) as well as the ci, around half of anti-homosexual harassment reports 1995 volved only slurs or sults, th not risg to the level of actual or threatened physil vlence. Given that half of the harassment reports did not rise to the level of vlence, while domtic vlence meant exactly that, if the data gathered by this nsortium of homosexuals rrponds to the unrlyg realy, the physil threat to homosexuals om same-sex domtic vlence is more than twice as great as the physil threat they experience om ‘the outsi.

Rather than beg a ‘shelter agast the storms of life, ’ as tradnal marriage is sometim characterized, beg homosexually partnered actually creas the physil dangers associated wh homosexualy.