A Maryland man was arrted Thursday for allegedly assltg men he believed were gay over a three-year perd a Washgton, DC, park, officials said.
Contents:
- HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?
- MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’
- MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK
- WILLIAM ZACHARY ZULOCK GAY UPLE GEIA MOLT ADOPTED SONS
- ARRT MA ROBBERI AND MURRS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED
- MAN ARRTED TURKEY AND LOCKED UP FOR 20 DAYS 'BEE HE LOOKED GAY AND WAS WEARG A CROP TOP'
HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?
The men are acced of agreeg to have sex a park wh other men — who were actually unrver puti. Experts and advot say rells an era of anti-gay policg. * gay man arrest *
Was the Sheriff’s Office crimalizg gay sex?
Crics ask if the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is crimalizg gay sex.
MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’
A gay Portugue man claims he was arrted Istanbul, Turkey and held for 20 days jail, jt bee he “looked gay”. * gay man arrest *
[ Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]Sheriff’s spokwoman Crystal Clark fend the operatn as way of protectg children and said accatns that the stg was prejudiced agast gay men “are absurd, and que ankly, offensive. Defense attorney Jam Amarosa, who has reprented several men acced such s, put bluntly: “I believe they’re targetg homosexual men. To her, appears that the Sheriff’s Office is targetg certa lotns, regardls of who’s havg sex there, rather than gay ncerns her that the operatns were nducted whout any plats om the public.
”• • •It has been more than six s sce Florida’s famo Johns Commtee targeted Black people, munists and gay men a McCarthye asslt on the civil rights movement om 1956-65. Havg officers go unrver to target cisg — which men pick each other up for sex public — was a major aspect of those anti-gay efforts, cludg those by the Johns and raids targetg the LGBTQ muny cled the late 20th century, Stewart-Wter said — particular, police stopped raidg gay bars the face of public cricism.
”Durg the mid-century heyday of anti-gay policg, Stewart-Wter said, teachers and profsors arrted the stgs were often sgled out for particularly harsh public shamg, due to the myth that gay men pose a particular threat to said Chronister’s foc on the safety of children furthers that false and pernic stereotype. Neher of the parks targeted “Operatn Park Cleanup” has said she saw the sheriff’s language as fuelg prejudice agast gay men. Miguel Alvaro was locked up for nearly three weeks after beg arrted by Turkish police bee he “looked gay”.
MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK
* gay man arrest *
A gay Portugue man claims he was arrted Istanbul, Turkey and jailed for 20 days, jt bee he “looked gay”.
“They thought I would participate an unthorised LGBTI+ march that was gog to take place nearby bee I looked gay, ” he said. It isn’t illegal to be gay Turkey, but the untry has bee an creasgly hostile place for queer people wh senr policians, relig lears and retailers lnchg attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny. A nvictn of an “unnatural and lasciv act” is nsired a send-gree mismeanor and is punishable by up to 60 days jail and a $500 discsg the circumstanc surroundg the Operatn Park Hopper arrts laid out the statement, Lambda Legal Director of Constutnal Ligatn San Sommer told NBC Out “entrapment is fely a law enforcement tool ed agast gay men.
“They round up gay men and then do this really horrendo public shamg where they prt their mug shots and their nam and their ag and the towns where they live, ” Sommer said.
WILLIAM ZACHARY ZULOCK GAY UPLE GEIA MOLT ADOPTED SONS
”“The ernment n certaly outlaw public sex, but mt take re to enforce such bans wh nstutnal lims, ” said Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, a gay journalist who has wrten on gay sex stgs the past. “When law enforcement officers target gay men for no apparent reason other than their sexual orientatn, they n the risk of nng afoul of basic equal protectn prcipl. ”Stern poted to a prev se Long Beach, Calif., where a urt threw out the nvictn of a gay man who had been arrted for cisg, bee was led that the police partment had acted on unnstutnal “anim toward homosexuals.
”“Put simply, is not at all clear that the Volia County Sheriff remaed wh nstutnal boundari his zeal to arrt, imprison and huiate the men, ” Stern of the men arrted Operatn Park Hopper were middle-aged or olr, which Sommer speculated uld be ditive of generatnal differenc between olr and younger gay men.
A Maryland man was arrted Thursday for allegedly assltg men he believed were gay over a three-year perd a Washgton, DC, park, officials said.
ARRT MA ROBBERI AND MURRS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: William Dale Zulock and Zachary Jaby Zulock, a gay Geia uple, are acced of moltg their two adopted boys and g them to rerd child porn. " This other person wrote, "I'm a gay man and this is beyond appallg. I’m a gay man and this is beyond appallg.
MAN ARRTED TURKEY AND LOCKED UP FOR 20 DAYS 'BEE HE LOOKED GAY AND WAS WEARG A CROP TOP'
Portugue man arrted Turkey for 19 days jt bee he "looked gay".