Homicis of gay men won’t be reported as hate crim - Philalphia Gay News

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• PHILALPHIA GAY COUPLE ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY 'WELL-DRSED' STRAIGHT MOB IN HATE CRIME
• DO KATHRYN KNOTT, SPECT IN ALLEGED PHILALPHIA ANTI-GAY ATTACK, HAVE A HOMOPHOBIC HISTORY?
• SPECTS CHARGED CENTER CY BEATG OF PHILALPHIA GAY COUPLE
• HOMICIS OF GAY MEN WON’T BE REPORTED AS HATE CRIM
• ​2 MEN WHO BEAT GAY UPLE PHILALPHIA TAKE PLEA
• GAY-BASHG VICTIMS SETTLE CIVIL SU CENTER CY ATTACK
• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

PHILALPHIA GAY COUPLE ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY 'WELL-DRSED' STRAIGHT MOB IN HATE CRIME

Skip to Ma ContentA Philalphia gay uple are still reelg after allegedly beg attacked and beaten what's been scribed as a possible hate crime last week. “The fact that we fear gog to police when we are asslted speaks to how hard is for to believe the police will really help , ” said *Tony Rso, a gay man livg South Philalphia and teachg at a lol private school. The spects a vlent gang asslt on two gay men Philalphia have apparently been loted by an anonymo Twter slth om Jersey.

Someone the group asked if the men were "boyiends, " acrdg to police, and ma "disparagg remarks" about gay people before attackg the victims, kickg them the head, cht and face. If you're gog to gay bash don't fill your FB profile wh gay slurs and also lete that rturant check om earlier— FanSce09 (@FanSce09) September 17, 2014. The social media prence of one of three Pennsylvania-based spects an alleged anti-gay attack has e unr tense scty after the woman turned herself this week.

11 beatg of two gay men, ag 27 and 28, downtown Philalphia. The men, who have reportedly asked to rema anonymo, told CBS Philalphia that they were attacked by a "well-drsed" and toxited mob that began tntg them wh anti-gay ephets while they were on their way to of the two victims suffered a bone acture his face that will require surgery, acrdg to the Philalphia the many Tweets that have sce e to qutn sce Knott's surrenr: Jt found this on my phone this explas a lot lol @mbtemp @Dolge_C @chise1524 @jmal3688 @eeki #bayftdiddirty — Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) April 28, 2013@g0_nads he's gonna rip me today for my wa. — Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) April 24, 2012@krisssstenxoxo the ppl we were jt dancg wh jt turned and mafe out wh eatch other #gay #ew— Kathryn Knott (@kathryn_knott) March 18, 2012Meanwhile, Knott's attorney, Louis Bi, told WPVI-TV that the cint was not motivated by homophobia, and that his client "played no role this other than gog out to dner wh iends the night this happened.

DO KATHRYN KNOTT, SPECT IN ALLEGED PHILALPHIA ANTI-GAY ATTACK, HAVE A HOMOPHOBIC HISTORY?

Philalphia's District Attorney's Office announced charg Tuday afternoon agast three Bucks County rints -- cludg the dghter of an area police chief --  a Center Cy beatg of two gay men. 11 vlent attack on two gay men Center Cy that left one of those men the hospal wh multiple actur. Another wns, who asked to rema anonymo, says he heard the group screamg homophobic slurs.

Defense lawyer Louis Bi, who reprents Knott, nied that the dispute was motivated by anti-gay bias. Philalphia Police Commissner Charl Ramsey, along wh openly gay state Rep. Inially, Philalphia police reported Johnson’s homici as an anti-Gay hate crime to the Pennsylvania State Police, which pil such statistics and shar them wh the FBI for cln the FBI’s Annual Hate Crim Report.

Inially, Philalphia police reported Pope’s homici to the state police as an anti-Gay hate crime. “In the se of Naasire Johnson, jt bee the fendant had a relatnship wh the victim don’t exclu the possibily that the homici uld have been motivated, at least part, by the fendant’s hatred of gay people. Gay and bi men n hate other gay people, and they n hate themselv.

SPECTS CHARGED CENTER CY BEATG OF PHILALPHIA GAY COUPLE

PHILADELPHIA -- Two men acced of beatg a gay uple a se partly solved by social media slths will avoid prison time unr a plea agreement announced Thursday that outraged members of the gay muny. Prosecutors say Williams and Harrigan, om the suburban muni of Warmster and Warrgton, were part of a group that hurled gay slurs and profany and beat Hse and Hght near Philalphia's rzy Rtenhoe Square on Sept.

"This affected the sense of secury for all people Center Cy, particularly people who are gay and lbian, " Assistant District Attorney Michael Barry said. The fendants, he said, damaged Philalphia's reputatn as a safe, gay iendly cy. #LGBT" a tweet, gay wrer and activist Dan Savage lled the sentence "appallg.

HOMICIS OF GAY MEN WON’T BE REPORTED AS HATE CRIM

""I'm very aware of the need for people who are gay, lbian, or different any way to be able to e to our cy and feel safe and that like they n be left alone. The beatg of a gay uple three years ago Center Cy, which rulted the high-profile trial of fendant Kathryn Knott, settled a civil su agast their attackers this week.

The pair later ttified urt that they also were subjected to a slew of homophobic slurs.

​2 MEN WHO BEAT GAY UPLE PHILALPHIA TAKE PLEA

“We are glad to see that LGBT victims are beg looked at, [and that] the DA is champng the victims of any crime, cludg those LGBT members, ” said a reprentative om the Greater Philalphia chapter of the Gay Officer’s Actn League. In the send half of the twentieth century, a growg number of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins claimed polil rights as people whose same-sex sire or genr prentatn challenged prevailg social mor. Displays of homosexual affectn and cross-drsg had been part of public life ci like Philalphia gog back to the lonial perd.

Durg the 1950s and 1960s, the first gay and lbian civil rights protts Philalphia reflected the growg polil nscns of homophile activists. On April 25, 1965, Dewey’s, a der near Rtenhoe Square wh a large clientele of gay youth, drag queens, and sex workers, began refg to serve ctomers who appeared to be gay or lbian, as well as those wearg clothg that did not match their genr.

GAY-BASHG VICTIMS SETTLE CIVIL SU CENTER CY ATTACK

Over the next five days, members of the Jan Society, a lol gay and lbian polil group, protted outsi of Dewey’s, and distributed their lerature to passersby.

Although the Dewey’s s-s showed that some gay and lbian activists were willg to stand up for those who publicly drsed and acted unnventnal ways, most hewed to a polics of rpectabily.

They scribed themselv as “homophil” rather than “homosexuals” orr to distance themselv om sexual acts, a strategy that many saw as a necsary step toward cln Amerin society. As they protted anti-sodomy laws, the firg of gay men and lbians om feral employment, and their excln om ary service, Annual Remr marchers drsed profsnally and ways that nformed to genr expectatns, wh men sus, jackets, and slacks, and women drs. In the early 1970s, homophile activism gave way to gay liberatn, although the more radil goals and tactics of gay liberatn groups did not preclu their volvement nventnal polics.

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

The Homophile Actn League and the Gay Activists Alliance, which staked out more ant posns than their Annual Remr precsors, prsed lol lawmakers to extend Philalphia’s anti-discrimatn protectns to gay men and lbians. In 1974 the Cy Council held heargs on a bill to add sexual orientatn to the cy’s Fair Practic Ordance, to outlaw anti-gay discrimatn employment, hog, and public acmodatns.

Opponents of the measure ntend that race and sexual orientatn were fundamentally different, and qutned gay and lbian activists’ attempts to claim protectns as an aggrieved mory alongsi Ain Amerins, Jews, and other historilly persecuted groups. Men and women celebrate the passage of a bill that add sexual orientatn to the cy’s Fair Practic Ordance, outlawg anti-gay discrimatn employment, hog, and public acmodatns.