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gay hate crimes 2016

The mass murr at a gay nightclub Orlando is both the adlit terror attack si the U.S. sce 9/11 — and the adlit hate crime agast a gay target Amerin history.

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GAY-BASHG VICTIMS SETTLE CIVIL SU CENTER CY ATTACK

The shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando last week put homophobic vlence the spotlight. On a regular basis, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr… * gay hate crimes 2016 *

Even before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were already the most likely targets of hate crim Ameri, acrdg to an analysis of data llected by the Feral Bure of Invtigatn. Senator Mch McConnell of Kentucky, the majory lear, has omted any mentn of gays when talkg about the massacre, and Reprentative Pete Ssns of Texas has said the se of the shootg was not a gay club.

And the nightclub, Pulse, on s Twter acunt, billed self as “Orlando’s premier gay ultra lounge, nightclub and bar. People might have to do wh a more acceptg attu toward gays and lbians recent s, say people who study hate crim.

Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is an expert on anti-gay vlence. Last summer, ls than two months after the Uned Stat Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriage, a New York Cy man was arrted and charged wh a hate crime for attackg Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, the first gay uple to be married at Wt Pot Milary Amy. A few months later Palm Sprgs, Calif., a gay married uple, Gee and Chris Zanr, who were also L.

A gay uple beaten three years ago Center Cy, which led to the high-profile trial of Kathryn Knott, settled their civil su agast their attackers this week. * gay hate crimes 2016 *

In March of this year, Ellt Moral was nvicted of murr as a hate crime for killg Mark Carson, a gay black man, Manhattan three years earlier. Moral had shouted anti-gay slurs at Mr.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY HATE CRIMES 2016

Anti-gay hate crim on the rise, FBI says, and they likely unrunt .

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