Serial killer doceri 'Last Call' reckons wh NYC's history of anti-gay vlence

Contents:

• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED / QUEERTY
• QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
• MATTHEW SHEPARD IS THE WORLD'S MOST FAMO GAY HATE CRIME VICTIM. BUT WAS HE REALLY KILLED FOR BEG GAY?
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

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

Photograph: Evan Agosti/Getty Imag Photograph: Evan Agosti/Getty ImagOn 16 September the Casper Star Tribune, the lol paper Matthew’s home town, published an edorial claimg that an award Jimenez had recently received for his book “serv rejectn”, sayg: “From the begng there have been those who want to ignore the sadistic homophobic motiv of Shepard’s attackers and stead sist the matter was a dg al gone bad.

Last March, when gay 24-year-old Daniel Zamud was beaten so severely, after havg swastikas rved to his sk, that he died the hospal three weeks later, the btal murr shocked Chileans and spurred the ernment there to fast-track LGBT antidiscrimatn legislatn. S., over the last 50 more than 70 untri prepare to observe the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia May 17, crimologists, activists, and survivors many ci have been discsg ways to al wh crim agast -- and ocsnally by -- LGBT folks. HOUSTON'S STONEWALLOn July 4, 1991, a 27-year-old Hoton banker was murred and his two iends jured by a group of 10 young men who attacked them wh nail-studd woon planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outsi Heaven, a gay bar the cy's heavily LGBT Montrose district.

" Wh days of Brosard's murr, all l5 members of Hoton's Cy Council (cludg on who had opposed gay rights ordanc prevly) voted for a rolutn askg then-ernor Ann Richards to put a hate-crim bill on the legislature's 10 men were nvicted of the killg. Acrdg to the Dallas Voice, there have been 35 people killed the neighborhood sce a pastor's gay teenage son was killed 1979, cludg Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was stabbed December 2010, ped his attacker and sought refuge a lol gay club, and was turned away only to be found aga by his attacker, who killed HAMPTON ROADS KILLERFrom 1987 to 1996, 12 gay or bisexual men were strangled to ath and dumped an area of Virgia lled Hampton Roads.

SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED

In June of 2004, the same month the jury Gwen's murr trial adlocked, the petn was granted and Gwen's name was HANDCUFF MANFor s, bartenrs, htlers, and gay clubgoers Atlanta's Ponce Leon rridor -- an area where gay sex tra was mon -- circulated mors about a myster man who mutilated and murred young gay and bisexual men. Jordan's attack galvanized lol lbian and gay lears, who then urged police to take the stori of the Handcuff Man serly, at one pot gettg police pta Ken Bol to adm that they activists had a pot, that the partment's sex crim un had been slow to rpond (a day later, flacks said Bol was misquoted).

McKney received two life terms whout possibily of Fred Phelps, lear of the Wtboro Baptist Church Kansas, picketed Shepard's funeral wh signs that read "Fag Matt Hell" and "No Tears for Queers, " the murr led to a sea change how the public -- om Hollywood to Peoria -- viewed gay people as well as the need for sexual orientatn and genr inty hate-crim protectns.

"Some lol activists also dicted the black muny of Newark, argug that homophobia kept the mayor and black polil lears om dog more to help LGBT youth and om payg attentn to a bias murr where both the victim and the perpetrator were black. "As wh Shepard, and Brandon Teena, Gunn's life was memorialized on film Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project, a powerful doc that dissects both the homophobia that ed this murr and qutns the lack of media verage of her, that police booth on the rner near where Gunn was killed is staffed 24 hours a day, a promise former Newark mayor Sharpe Jam ma 2002.

KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

After that Cunanan head to Miami, where he managed to eva police whout seemgly tryg, while gog to gay clubs, hangg out at the beach and lol tennis urts, and pickg up men for ocsnal, on July 15, 1997, Cunanan shot Gianni Versace outsi the wealthy fashn sign star's home South Beach and ran away as a wns tried but failed to tail him. After all, the polil climate Oregon had been volatile for years, and the women -- whom iends scribed as the ial lbian uple -- had been active the state's bter fights over two Oregon state ballot iativ: Measure 9, a nstutnal amendment that would have clared homosexualy "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse, " and Measure 19, which would have banned librari om rryg material about homosexualy.

The atmosphere the Medford area was rife wh tensn as gay groups battled wh relig groups fiercely through much of the ' the women, both their 50s and together 12 years, were many rpects, ordary: rpected lol bswomen who ran a property management pany and spent their spare time rtorg their Craftsman-style hoe, stayg by wh their lol church, and spoilg Ellis's young granddghter. The news shocked the town, and as police searched for the killer, numero anizatns issued ut prs releas about the slaygs, cludg the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, which said that "the women's outspoken stance on gay rights has spired speculatn that they might have fallen victim to a hate crime. " The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force asked then-attorney general Ja Reno to have the Department of Jtice work wh Medford police bee the killgs should be nsired hate yet many the gay muny and on the police force said activists were too quick to ll the murrs hate crim.

His attorney blamed his explible rage on the uple's lbianism as well as two rap he had suffered, as a child and later a Florida judge, though, refed to allow the women's sexual relatnship to be brought up urt -- a rare and surprisg move at the time when gay panic was still a valid fense -- and Carr ma a plea al for life prison almost exactly a year after Wright was killed. Brenner went on to bee a csar agast anti-LGBT vlence, and wrote a movg memoir of the events that killed her partner, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Survivg Anti-Gay JENNY JONES MURDERThe petn among televisn talk shows the 1990s was tense, each tryg to goose ratgs.

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

Schmz had assumed his secret admirer was a woman, and though he handled the tapg of the show wh what appeared to producers a natural aplomb, three days later he drove to Amre's home and shot him to ath, then lled 911 to was plenty of speculatn the media, some suggtg Amre's sexual advanc ed Schmz to fly to a gay panic rage; others thought Schmz acted out of ternalized poted the blame at Jon and her producers, and 1999, Amre's fay won a $25 ln judgment agast The Jenny Jon Show as well as Warner Bros. Sadly, a far longer list, of more than 34, 400 terrorist killgs sce 9/11 mted by adherents to the relign of peace the name of Allah, is available over at and a shockg number of the high-profile crim that helped to tear Ameri apart were mted by potheads as documented at But here we prent KGOV's list of homosexual mass murrers. Gay Jefey Dahmer: raped, murred, and ate 17 young men and Adam Lanza: murred 28 cludg 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School Luis Garavo: rapist, torturer, and murrer of more than 147 of Columbia's young Omar Mateen: murred 49 Orlando wh terrible llateral John Wayne Gacy: Chigo, killed 33 boys and buried them his hoe and yard.

He was charged wh six aths but is believed to have murred 60 Charl Manson: a prostute's illegimate son, spent most of his early life stutns for offenc cludg theft, pimpg, multiple homosexual offens while rcerated, and homosexual rape. Serial Killers, who molted and murred 27 young men and boys Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: homosexual nnibal Bar-Jonah sexually molted boys Massachetts and Montana and butchered at least one, a ten year old Great Falls named Zachary Corll, Henley & Brooks: Dean Arnold Corll's sex rg wh Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks murred and tortured 29 men and boys Juan Corona: murred 25 migrant workers and even molted their Richard Speck: murred 8 nursg stunts, bragged about on viotape showg him havg sex wh an mate and braggg about the many mat he had sodomized. Acrdg to transvte Ottis Toole, they were homosexual partners, as reported by Amerin Jtice, "Myth of a Serial killer: The Henry Lee Lus Story", episo Ottis Toole: a transvte acrdg to Amerin Jtice (episo 150) and he was a partner of Henry Lee Lus, and bragged about murrs terviews.

SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED / QUEERTY

" Of urse, homosexual men reproduce by moltg Stephen Port killed at least four young men rapg them as they were dyg and sexually asslted at least seven other Jürgen Bartsch: this German homosexual murred four boys between ag 8 and 13 and tried to kill Gary Ray Bowl: preyed on olr men and murred six, homosexuals like himself, and was executed Florida Robert Berlla: kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murred at least six men Kansas Cy, Randy Kraft: raped, tortured, mutilated and murred at least 16 young men, mostly Dennis Nilsen: Sttish serial killer and necrophiliac who murred at least 12 young men London, Stephen Port: Grdr homosexual app serial killer dgged and murred four young men Ronald Domique: raped and murred at least 23 men, many of whom he found Louisiana's "gay" Larry Eyler: murred 22 young men and boys cludg a 15-year-old whom he then Arthur Bishop: this child molter and nsumer of child pornography (the distributn of which the ACLU has supported) murred five young Daniel Conahan: this serial killer was nvicted of one and lked to more than a dozen murrs of homosexual Herb Bmeister: murred at least 20 men wh 11 of their rps found buried on his Indiana Joseph Dunn: nvicted of murrg five, nfsed to two others and to rapg many young Vghn Greenwood: this homosexual serial killer, known as the Skid Row Slasher, murred 11 William MacDonald: As Atralia's first serial killer and yet only one of the lns of homosexual Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who were kidnapped and raped to the liftyle, MacDonald murred five Michael Lupo: the sadistic Italian homosexual murred four men London and mutilated their David Villarreal: btally murred five men Texas om ag 18 to Carl Panzram: serial rapist executed at Leavenworth nfsed to sodomizg and murrg many boys and Aileen Wuornos: the prostute who murred seven Black Doodler: murred five and possibly 11 more, homosexuals he picked up San Francis John Joubert: former Boy Sut lear said he enjoyed the "power and domatn" of killg.

- Gay Aaron McKney was beg pimped alongsi Matthew Shephard, wh whom he ocsnally had unnatural physil relatns, before he and Rsell Henrson murred Shepherd over dgs, a crime that was not the homophobic attack that McKney played as and was then recklsly promoted worldwi by the media. " As naturally as uld be, this verse om the time of the begng of creatn very naturally affirms the two sex (male and female, father and mother) ditg that a man has both a mother and father, not two fathers or two mothers, providg the natural, healthy ntext for the Scripture's future disgt wh and nmnatn of homosexualy.

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

He eventually rigned om the Senate after Mt Romney's 2008 printial mpaign threw him unr the b (and then "backed up and ran over me aga") and Washgton watchdog groups began to qutn whether he'd vlated the Senate Rul of the GOP's culture wars ragg more tensely than ever unr Print Tmp's learship, would be fascatg to take another look at this polil sndal and how gay policians are perceived Washgton. This ma him Ameri's first openly gay ernor, but also ed him to rign his post was hardly the only sndal that beiged his ernorship, however -- he was also lked to Jared Khner's father Charl Khner, who took revenge on his brother--law by payg a prostute $10, 000 to lure him to a hotel room and have sex wh him, then sent the tape om a hidn mera to his sister. "WARNING: This feature ntas language that some rears may fd nights earlier, on Tuday 6 October 1998, Matthew Shepard walked alone to a dive bar ptn, Judy and Dennis Shepard at the Matthew Shepard Foundatn Denver last weekThe openly gay Universy of Wyomg hman had jt met up wh iends to plan LGBT awarens week on the town's he uldn't persua them to jo him for a beer the Firi Lounge, the 21-year-old somehow end up chattg to two roofg workers, Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney, both the same age as pair saw an easy mark the 5ft 2, slightly built County Sheriff Dave O'Malley, who was lead vtigator the se, says: "McKney's own statement said he and Rsell went to the bathroom at the Firi bar and they planned to act like they were gay to try to ga Matthew's nfince.

It is a momento honour not even acrd to another proment gay martyr, Harvey Milk, the San Francis polician assassated the Denver cy centre offic of the LGBT rights foundatn named after her son, Judy Shepard, 66, is fightg back predicted Friday's ceremony would probably be more emotnal for her than the funeral bee she felt so "numb" immediately after her son's source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A vigil for Shepard New York Cy 1998The origal service, amid snow flurri the fay's hometown of Casper, Wyomg, on 16 October 1998, was picketed by an anti-gay preacher om Kansas. Reverend Fred Phelps of Wtboro Baptist Church and his flock, who clud children, held plards dbed wh homophobic slurs and shouted to mourners that the ad stunt was burng Shepard, 69, remembers law enforcement makg him wear a bullet-proof vt to step outsi the Epispal church, which had been sured by bomb-sniffg dogs. Shepard's murr stoked the perceptn of Cowboy Country and flyover stat general as a danger zone for gay at his office the cy of Cheyenne, McKney trial lawyer Dn Ctis matas was a robbery gone bad, even while he accepts sexual orientatn was a factor.

MATTHEW SHEPARD IS THE WORLD'S MOST FAMO GAY HATE CRIME VICTIM. BUT WAS HE REALLY KILLED FOR BEG GAY?

"However, McKney's own gay-bashg rhetoric damns him the ey of source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Thoands gathered outsi the US Capol for a vigil after Shepard's athDurg a police nfsn, he said he began to attack Shepard bee the stunt had put his hand on his leg durg the r ri. " Yet another statement to police, he said Shepard simply looked like he was about to grope the jailhoe after his arrt, McKney reportedly wrote to another mate's wife: "Beg a verry [sic] dnk homofobick [sic] I flipped out and began to pistol whip the fag wh my gun, ready at hand. "At trial, McKney's lawyers argued that Shepard had ma their client fly to a rage by touchg his the judge dismissed this "gay panic" a legal strategy - where crimal fendants s of vlent asslt argue they were provoked by an unwanted same-sex sexual advance - is still admissible all but three US stat, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law.

The moment was re-enacted as a climactic scene 2002 HBO movie The Laramie the angel actn, was replited two years ago Orlando, Florida, when Wtboro Baptist Church tried to dispt the funerals of gay people killed a mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub. However, Sheriff O'Malley mak clear that theory is not supported by the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Judy Shepard (L) at the Whe Hoe 2009 for the passage of the anti-hate crim bill named after her son and a black man killed by whe supremacistsThe Old Buckhorn Bar & Parlor Laramie has a mirror pocked by a bullet hole, and walls that bristle wh mounted antelope, buffalo and patron, Jt Bmmet - who proudly scrib himself as "third class whe trash" - says US progrs on gay rights sce Shepard's ath is to be mend.

" Back at the end of the last lennium, many Wyomg apparently thought gay people were as rare on the high plas as jackalop, the state's mythil antlered ptn, (L-R) Universy of Wyomg LGBT stunts Js Fahlsg, Carlos Gonzal and Rihanna KelverShepard's murr - together wh the 2005 gay wboy love story Brokeback Mounta - helped dispel that Connolly, a Universy of Wyomg genr and women's studi lecturer, explas. "Why there are discrepanciWhether due to nonexistent laws or nsistent reportg, lol law enforcement agenci rarely report LGBTQ aths to feral thori that track hate crim — even if the killer ed slurs, rpond vlently to rmatn that a person was gay or transgenr, or showed signs of overkill.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

Many of the aths noted earlier reports didn’t clu nam, but we were able to gather nam for most victims by piecg together intifyg rmatn om other reports, cludg media reportg advocy studi and police, we searched through several reports and onle listgs of LGBTQ murr victims, cludg Gay History Wiki, Internatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance, In Memoriam: Lbian Murr Victims, Unerased: Countg Transgenr Liv, the Genr Public Advocy Coaln’s 50 Unr 30 report and a Human Rights Campaign report documentg hate crim between 1998 and 2002. The followg article by my good iend and AFTAH wrer Allyson Smh is adapted om her five 2002 article on the horrific and gome murr of a 13-year-old Arkansas boy, Jse Dirkhisg — who died om asphyfixiatn and dggg after beg btally and sadistilly sodomized by a homosexual man, unr the twisted guidance of another (his much olr “gay” lover).