Murrs of gays, lbians U.S. creased last year, group says | Rters

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• MURRS OF GAYS, LBIANS U.S. CREASED LAST YEAR, GROUP SAYS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

MURRS OF GAYS, LBIANS U.S. CREASED LAST YEAR, GROUP SAYS

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. It was a factor dozens of murrs the last 20 vlence claimed the life of Michael Stt Goucher, a 21-year-old whe gay man who met one of his assailants onle. 357 Magnum pistol, cludg three fal, and fatal, skull-cshg an tercepted jail letter McKney wrote to Shepard's other attacker, Rsell Henrson, while the two were awag trial, McKney ed a gay slur to scribe Shepard.

"Why there are discrepanciWhether due to nonexistent laws or nsistent reportg, lol law enforcement agenci rarely report LGBTQ aths to feral thori that track hate crim — even if the killer ed slurs, rpond vlently to rmatn that a person was gay or transgenr, or showed signs of overkill. Many of the aths noted earlier reports didn’t clu nam, but we were able to gather nam for most victims by piecg together intifyg rmatn om other reports, cludg media reportg advocy studi and police, we searched through several reports and onle listgs of LGBTQ murr victims, cludg Gay History Wiki, Internatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance, In Memoriam: Lbian Murr Victims, Unerased: Countg Transgenr Liv, the Genr Public Advocy Coaln’s 50 Unr 30 report and a Human Rights Campaign report documentg hate crim between 1998 and 2002.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Siarly, we didn’t clu victims whose attackers ed the gay panic fense or people victimized at gay clubs unls we found other ditns that they intified as members of the LGBTQ muny.

NEW YORK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The number of murrs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people jumped 20 percent the Uned Stat last year, activists said on Monday, releasg their fdgs a day after a mass shootg at a Florida gay nightclub left 49 people ad. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The vlence 2015 was the hight sce 2012, acrdg to the report by the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs (NCAVP) said 24 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and people wh HIV were murred the Uned Stat, a 20 percent crease om advocy group released s fdgs a day ahead of their schled publitn after the Orlando, Florida shootg, the worst mass murr U. So, while was and probably still is impolic to view 9/11 and the aftermath through the lens of my inty as a gay man, that’s a necsarily a part of the ntext of that day for me.

As equently as we are wrten out of history, there has to be some effort to remember gays & lbians affected by the 9/11 attacks. Most of the 22 gay widows and widowers would soon face a tangle of legal obstacl over herance rights and a first-of-s-kd victim pensatn program offered by the feral ernment that would plite their liv and, many s, add to their grief. Like I said, I was sure as I watched the events unfold that somewhere there was another gay man or lbian watchg and wonrg – or perhaps knowg wh certaty – that a partner wasn’t gog to be g back home.

By that time I’d already heard about Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who, many people believe, was among the passengers who brought down flight 93 before reached s statn that day. And perhaps the most well-known gay 9/11 victim, public relatns executive and gby player Mark Bgham, helped fight back agast terrorists on Uned Airl Flight 93, g to crash a ral Pennsylvania field stead of reachg s target Washgton, D. When nied pensatn by Virgia’s Crimal Injuri Compensatn Fund, she meet wh reprentativ of natnal gay and lbian rights anizatns, and is now negotiatg wh Kenh Feberg, an appotee of Attorney General John Ashcroft who is admisterg the feral September 11 Victim Compensatn Fund.

Mychal Judge, a gay Catholic prit who served as a chapla for the New York Cy Fire Department, was givg last r to an jured firefighter when the Tw Towers llapsed, killg them both and many others. 11 World Tra Center attacks, Randolph said he has had to stggle to fend the relatnship, to prove he was Mercer’s life partner and that, as a gay uple, their mment was equal to that of married straight people. I did post at an onle fom I vised equently at the time (and where I went, like many other Amerins on that day, to get rmatn on people I knew), and at least some of the rpons I got clud accatns of “spreadg divisivens” by acknowledgg specific gay & lbian Amerins among the people killed on 9/11 and among their survivg fai.

” One or two suggted was ls than patrtic to refer to myself as a gay Amerin or an Ain Amerin, or anythg else but jt an Amerin. Yet, five years later, we aren’t all “jt Amerins, ” particularly when to gay & lbian Amerins facg state nstutnal amendments that might jt fe their fai out of legal existence. Five years later, many gay & lbian Amerins are nsirably ls safe terms their legal stat, the fact of another potential terrorist attack.

” However, January 2003, “the feral ernment’s 9-11 Compensatn Fund approved what is said to be the first payment to [Neff], a person a gay relatnship whose partner was killed the Sept. LGBT advocy groups cludg the Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pri Agenda (ESPA), and Lambda Legal created the September 11 Gay & Lbian Fay Fund to provi some relief to survivg partners who were eligible for help om the feral relief fund program.

Due to limed rearch fundg, the high ath rate of gay men the mps, and the stigma attached to homosexualy, the victims are often fotten by the world. This clud more than 100 gay and lbian bars and f, songs and films, and Magn Hirschfeld’s Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (the Instute for Sexual Science), which ntaed thoands of books and journals on sexualy and genr.

Dpe Paragraph 175, which crimalised male homosexualy the German crimal , LGBTQ+ people tend to be observed and monored rather than persecuted.

Some Nazis believed that the majory of, if not all, homosexuals were Jewish bee many of the proment advot of gay rights and equaly were (cludg Hirschfeld as well as progrsive psychiatrists, physicians, lawyers and jurists). More than 100, 000 men intified as homosexual were arrted and many sent to ncentratn mps at Buchenwald, Dach, Sachsenhsen, Mthsen and Achwz, where between 5, 000 and 15, 000 of them died. They were, acrdg to ttimoni by straight and gay survivors, treated worse than other groups (except Jews) bee they were nsired viant.

This was bee many Nazis believed that hard labour – work gravel ps, cement plants and brickworks – uld “turn” gay men straight. Ttimony om Hez Heger, a gay Atrian ncentratn mp survivor (whose real name was Josef Kohout), provis sights to homosexual experienc the mps. Heger relled that gay men had to sleep wh their hands above their blankets, and if they didn’t they were taken outsi and had buckets of water thrown at them.

Homosexualy was not crimalised Germany until 1967 East Germany and 1969 Wt Germany, and so a number of survivors end up back prison. While Jews, children, and polil prisoners uld apply for fancial and moral support om the new German ernments, homosexual men uld not. Though the opprsn of gay men durg the Holot may have fad om public memory, hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people around the world are still rife.

Origally intified as a “gay disease” bee gay men were one of the primary groups afflicted, HIV and the syndrome , Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, were unknown 1981 but had bee hoehold terms and the number one threat to public health by the late 1980s. For several years after the Center for Disease Control first realized that the illns croppg up muni around the untry were all the work of the same vis, the Amerin ernment did ltle to addrs the epimic, a failure to act that many attribute to the fact that HIV/AIDS was primarily affectg gay men, traveno dg ers, immigrants and racial activists, medil profsnals, artists and a number of people wh AIDS who went public wh their diagnos spe the stigma surroundg the disease eventually spurred a massive rponse om the U. A Gay Men's Crisis1980April 24 – The CDC receiv a report on Ken Horne, a gay man livg San Francis who is sufferg om Kaposi’s Sara, a rare and unually aggrsive ncer lked wh weakened immuny.

1981May 18 – Lawrence Mass, a gay doctor New York Cy, wr an article for The New York Native, an LGBT newspaper, tled “Disease Rumors Largely Unfound.