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POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
Last March, when gay 24-year-old Daniel Zamud was beaten so severely, after havg swastikas rved to his sk, that he died the hospal three weeks later, the btal murr shocked Chileans and spurred the ernment there to fast-track LGBT antidiscrimatn legislatn. S., over the last 50 more than 70 untri prepare to observe the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia May 17, crimologists, activists, and survivors many ci have been discsg ways to al wh crim agast -- and ocsnally by -- LGBT folks. HOUSTON'S STONEWALLOn July 4, 1991, a 27-year-old Hoton banker was murred and his two iends jured by a group of 10 young men who attacked them wh nail-studd woon planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outsi Heaven, a gay bar the cy's heavily LGBT Montrose district.
Pl Brosard died several hours after the attack, and his ath led to a flurry of gay protts ont of the home of Mayor Kathy Whmire (at 2 a. " Wh days of Brosard's murr, all l5 members of Hoton's Cy Council (cludg on who had opposed gay rights ordanc prevly) voted for a rolutn askg then-ernor Ann Richards to put a hate-crim bill on the legislature's 10 men were nvicted of the killg.
Acrdg to the Dallas Voice, there have been 35 people killed the neighborhood sce a pastor's gay teenage son was killed 1979, cludg Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was stabbed December 2010, ped his attacker and sought refuge a lol gay club, and was turned away only to be found aga by his attacker, who killed HAMPTON ROADS KILLERFrom 1987 to 1996, 12 gay or bisexual men were strangled to ath and dumped an area of Virgia lled Hampton Roads.