Gay History - March 9, 1969: The Tragic Death of Howard Efland By Police At The Dover Hotel

Contents:

• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR
• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
• VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME
• FLORIDA FAY ALLEGEDLY BEAT GAY MAN SO SEVERELY, HE WAS LEFT BLD
• 3 FAY MEMBERS FACE HATE CRIM CHARG ATTACK THAT LEFT GAY MAN BLD POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA
• POLICE SAY CONNECTICUT MAN BEATEN TO DEATH BEE ATTACKER THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
• FAY ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED AND BLD MAN, CLAIMG HE ‘MA’ SON GAY
• THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
• GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• GAY HISTORY – MARCH 9, 1969: THE TRAGIC DEATH OF HOWARD EFLAND BY POLICE AT THE DOVER HOTEL
• ANTI-GAY ATTACK: 22-YEAR-OLD MAN VICLY BEATEN ON SUBWAY TRA
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day. The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime. They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said.

(MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town. Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR

"Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said.

THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said. "The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy. A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct.

Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred. McKney went to trial, and fense attorneys argued his vlent actns were "gay panic" -- a reactn to Shepard makg a sexual advance. "When the fense gets out there and starts talkg out of, the victim's flt, you know, 'gay panic, '...

VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS

"The "gay panic" fense is still legal most stat but has been outlawed a few. McKney has cled to speak to ABC News while Henrson did not immediately rpond to a requt for WashgtonShepard's murr shed a light on the spe of feral hate crime laws, which at the time did not clu sexual orientatn or genr gay activists monstrate the streets of North Hollywood to prott agast the ath of Wyomg Universy stunt Mathew Shepard, Oct.

GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME

13, Mata/AFP via Getty Imag FILEDemonstrators prott the hate killg of gay stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct.

Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns. "Beyond the feral hate crime law, the years sce Matthew Shepard's ath, among the most substantive legislative ws for the LGBTQ muny were the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell 2010, so gay ary members n serve openly whout fear of beg dismissed, and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the untry 2015.

Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools.

FLORIDA FAY ALLEGEDLY BEAT GAY MAN SO SEVERELY, HE WAS LEFT BLD

In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc. But Breinbach poted to recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn and rhetoric as embolng homophob and creasg the risk of vlence agast LGBTQ+ people.

Florida ernor and Republin printial ndidate Ron DeSantis has signed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ laws recent years, cludg the state’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law and several laws specifilly targetg transgenr youth. The Taliban raped and beat a gay man Kabul after lurg him to meetg them through social media.

Afghan LGBTQ activists told Insir that prev ernments ed siar tactics to trap gay men. The Taliban raped and beat a gay man after dupg him to meetg them, a report om ITV outlet said that Hanan, a psdonym given to protect his inty, had been speakg to a man on social media who promised to help him fd a safe way out of LGBTQ people have been sperately tryg to flee the untry followg the Taliban agreed to meet the man Kabul after speakg for three weeks onle, who unbeknownst to him were actually Taliban men.

3 FAY MEMBERS FACE HATE CRIM CHARG ATTACK THAT LEFT GAY MAN BLD POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA

Insir recently spoke to men om Afghanistan's secret gay muny, who said they are livg through a "nightmare" and fear of their futur unr Taliban le. Durg their prev le, the ant group executed gay men.

In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a Taliban judge vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or beg cshed by a ne-foot activists told Insir that gay men would be lured to their aths through social media even durg the prev ernments. "Social media was basilly ed by the ernment to create honey traps to ba gay and bisexual men, " LGBTQ activist Nemat Sadat told Insir.

This was unr Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, " he Zaher, an Afghan thor and gay rights activist, told Insir that gay people would often vanish after meetg up wh men they met on social media, who turned out to be ernment officials warned that the Taliban were likely to e the same tactics. A gay weddg planner was beaten unnsc by bouncers at a Texas nightclub last weekend, and vio of the cint has sce gone viral. He said such anti-gay bias is beg more monplace among bouncers at LGBTQ+ events the area.

POLICE SAY CONNECTICUT MAN BEATEN TO DEATH BEE ATTACKER THOUGHT HE WAS GAY

“This is what happens when you take a anchise rtrant and turn to a ne club and after hours and then hire homophobic secury officers, ” Hoton-Pickett wrote a post to social media about the cint. Authori New York Cy are lookg for a spect after a man was beaten and screamed at what police say was an antigay hate June 12, police say a 21-year-old man was walkg along First Avenue the Upper East Si of Manhattan when a stranger me up to him, Patch stranger, who was olr, yelled homophobic slurs at the young man and began htg him. It after a number of queer men the cy were victims of robberi — not thought to be antigay nature — and two of whom died after beg dgged and robbed.

FAY ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED AND BLD MAN, CLAIMG HE ‘MA’ SON GAY

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THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

Prosecutors said those charged — mother, father and son — knew the victim and targeted him bee he is gay.

GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE

Inna Makarenko is acced, along wh her fay, of beatg a gay man until he was left bld.

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

Prosecutors allege that Oleh Makarenko and his fay broke to the victim’s apartment and targeted him bee they knew he was gay. Hate crim charg attack on gay man. Prosecutors: 3 face hate crim charg attack on gay man Florida.

All three face possible life three fay members broke to a Pompano Beach home last Augt and beat a 31-year-old gay man so badly that he has bee permanently bld and staed other ser juri, prosecutors said. ”But the weekend attack would bee the quickly blacked out, but rells the attackers, two men, g a homophobic slur as they beat him. Humphrey reportedly told police he attacked Engeldm a f of rage after the homels man had “looked him the ey and…ma the sound ‘’”The affidav claimed Humphrey saw this as a sign that Engeldm was gay and solicg sex, and that he turned vlent as a rult.

’”In 2018 Humphrey plead guilty to third-gree asslt and send-gree timidatn due to bias charg for a 2017 attack on a man he also thought was gay. A Florida man was btally beaten and bld by members of his boyiend’s fay bee they believed the man “ma” their son gay, acrdg to urt documents.

GAY HISTORY – MARCH 9, 1969: THE TRAGIC DEATH OF HOWARD EFLAND BY POLICE AT THE DOVER HOTEL

“Unfortunately, your son’s gay, ” the man reportedly told Inna as the fay was allegedly attackg him. ”“He stated that the reason for this attack was bee he was a homosexual, was datg Oleh and that the fay felt that he ma Oleh a homosexual, ” the warrant said. Ron DeSantis (R) earlier this month signed to law the Parental Rights Edutn bill, which crics have labeled the “don’t say gay” law.

The measure bans stctn or classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty issu krgarten through third gra and also empowers parents to sue a school district over teachgs they don’t advot say the measure furthers efforts the state to pat the LGBTQ muny as “other, ” or even dangero, and gay rights groups have sued Florida over the law, argug that vlat the nstutnally protected rights of ee speech, equal protectn and due procs of stunts and fai.

Their relatnship shifted the summer of 2021, when Yevhen, Oleh’s father, “found out that he was homosexual, ” acrdg to the warrant.

ANTI-GAY ATTACK: 22-YEAR-OLD MAN VICLY BEATEN ON SUBWAY TRA

All four fay members “ntued holdg [the victim] and began punchg, kickg and htg [him] all over his face, head and body, ” acrdg to the the man told Inna that Oleh was gay, the victim stated, “one of them grabbed an unknown object, and stck him the face. She told WPLG she do not believe Oleh, who also go by Alex, is gay. “This crime was a sensels and unprovoked attack done onto a homosexual man, jt due to the mere fact that he was homosexual, ” Ryan is schled to appear for a bond hearg on Monday afternoon, McMahon said.

Spanish police have arrted three people nnectn wh the killg of a young gay man whose ath a possible homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the untry and sparked natnwi Luiz, a 24-year-old nursg assistant, was out wh iends the Galician cy of A Coña the early hours of Saturday when an argument started outsi a iends told El Mundo that Luiz had stepped out of the club to make a vio ll when two passersby acced him of tryg to film them on his phone.

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

Demonstrators rried signs wh slogans cludg “Your homophobia is killg ”.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

”José Miñon, the central ernment’s legate Galicia, said police were examg whether the attack was motivated by homophobia, addg that the vtigatn was at a ccial stage. “We are beg abed and murred for beg LGBTI, ” the State Feratn of Lbians, Gays and Bisexuals said a statement on Twter.

Ryan Williams was subjected to a homophobic attack while on his way home om work near Manchter's Gay Village. (SWNS)A gay man who was knocked unnsc a homophobic attack has spoken out after his attacker was spared jail and hand a spend Williams was wh a group of iends when he was acsted by a group of thugs and told “gay is wrong” and “you all need to die” 24-year-old was beaten until he lost nscns and was left unable to sleep for months after the attack, which happened as he walked home om work near Manchter’s Gay Village July 2019. (SWNS)He urged people to speak out if they had been through siar cints, addg: “People thk homophobia isn’t an issue anymore, but thgs like this are still happeng to people jt bee of who they are.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

”The urt heard that Williams was wh a iend when they were acsted and subjected to a barrage of sults and homophobic slurs before beg was left unnsc and said he only remembers wakg up the hospal to the sound of his mother speakg to was left wh srs to his face, lips and eyebrows and said doctors told him if he had been punched jt two ch higher he may have died om his juri. The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history. They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia.

As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny.

Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights. Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe. When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed.