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Contents:

• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY MURRS REMA UNSOLVED

”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. Back that benighted era, gay bars were often “the one refuge om the perils of everyday life”, said Green. At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se.

As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.

HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

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

Here are six notor gay-related (or, some s, gay-speculated) murrs that ntue to fascate . The head and feet of gay porn mol Billy London (who also worked as a producer unr the name Bill E.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

Police pursued all kds of leads but assumed the crime to be the rult of some sort of “homosexual motivatn. To celebrate their victory, the pair cid to go for a drk at The Mug, a gay bar Garn Grove.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Was the director secretly gay? Was his openly gay valet, Henry Peavey — on whose behalf Taylor was schled to appear urt on a sexual misnduct allegatn the followg day — rponsible for procurg men for the handsome director?

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

”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified all five victims at a news nference Monday is what we know about Aston, an undated photo, was one of five people killed late Saturday when a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs.

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2017 was close behd wh 53 died acts of gome vlence, like Frank Yazzie, a gay Navajo man who was cut half and stuffed two trash bags 2009.