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• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• DETRO MAN CHARGED TRIPLE HOMICI TARGETG LGBTQ MUNY: 2 GAY MEN, 1 TRANSGENR WOMAN MURRED
• LIFE WHOUT PAROLE FOR DETRO MAN WHO KILLED 2 GAY MEN AND A TRANSGENR WOMAN
• QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN
• 2 DETRO MEN CHARGED MURR OF GAY MAN
• MURRS OF GAYS, LBIANS U.S. CREASED LAST YEAR, GROUP SAYS
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

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

— Gary Ray Bowl, a serial killer who preyed on olr gay men durg an eight-month spree that left six ad, was executed by lethal jectn Thursday at Florida State sentence was rried out at 10:58 p.

DETRO MAN CHARGED TRIPLE HOMICI TARGETG LGBTQ MUNY: 2 GAY MEN, 1 TRANSGENR WOMAN MURRED

Invtigators say Bowl survived by lettg gay men perform sex acts on him for money, though he has said he was straight. "I had a qutn about him beg gay.

Worthy's office said Davis and Blancher were gay men.

LIFE WHOUT PAROLE FOR DETRO MAN WHO KILLED 2 GAY MEN AND A TRANSGENR WOMAN

The jtice project helps Michigan law enforcement officers and prosecutors solve ser crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. A Detro man who was nvicted of killg two gay men and a transgenr woman at a party last year was sentenced on Tuday to three terms of life prison whout parole. He left the party on May 25, 2019, on Detro’s East Si, and returned about an hour later, wearg a ski mask and holdg a handgun, prosecutors Robson opened fire immediately upon enterg the hoe, killg Alunte Davis, 21, and Timothy Blancher, 20, who were gay, and Paris Cameron, 20, a transgenr woman, the thori said.

Robson was gay, Ms.

QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN

Robson was prosecuted wh the help of the Fair Michigan Jtice Project, a nonprof program that helps law enforcement officials vtigate and prosecute ser crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Acrdg to Polch, a cultural historian and profsor of global liberal studi at New York Universy, the victim blamg evint acunts of Ivar’s murr was typil of the way the prs vered crim agast gay or prumed-gay men between World War I and the Stonewall uprisg 1969.

In the early and mid-20th century, gay and bisexual men were pecially vulnerable to vlence.

2 DETRO MEN CHARGED MURR OF GAY MAN

But crim agast gay men were rarely reported as such the prs. What he found was a trove of what he lls queer te crime stori — some ont-page news at the time, some buried and long fotten — that chart a history of vlence agast gay men and of society’s attus toward that vlence.

Crime stori, he told me, n reveal “a set of cultural anxieti and uncertati” — and the stori he read for Incent Advanc reveal Amerin society’s evolvg but ever-prent anxieti about gay men and their liv the s before Stonewall. ” We see their echo, he says, the murrs of trans women of lor, often unrreported by the mastream prs, and “the ntued e of gay nversn therapy, which replays post–World War II arguments that homosexualy is a ndn that n be (and should be) cured.

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

Are we lookg at targeted crim agast gay men, or are we lookg at somethg else? It’s clear, I thk, that gay men were targets bee [perpetrators] knew they uld be robbed or asslted wh ltle nsequenc. Mostly bee homosexualy was crimalized.

It’s unclear whether they were themselv kd of nformg to standards of the time and had some homosexual hookups ocsnally, or whether they were bisexual, or some kd of fluid sexualy. But what do show, I thk, is how crimalizg homosexual acts, you don’t jt target men who are livg their liv as gay men, but you affect a whole range of sexual practic. When you talk about gay men beg vulnerable, is that bee many would be aaid of gog to the police after a robbery or asslt bee they themselv would be crimalized?

At that time, sodomy laws crimalized homosexual behavr, so you uldn’t really fd any reurse the jtice system. It’s clear he was livg his life as a gay man. Once they were arrted and they went to urt, the victim’s fay didn’t want to go to trial bee they were fearful of the publicy that would e wh , makg known their son’s homosexualy.

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

In the 1950s, and the postwar, Cold War perd, you have the fluenc of [sexologist Aled] Ksey, and other newer theori of homosexualy that saw more as an visible threat. You see the ias of homosexuals and munism: “You never know who might be a homosexual.

For me, lookg at te crime stori the prs, I me at thkg, “What n the stori help unrstand about homosexualy, queer sexualy, this perd? A Michigan man was charged Monday the killg of a 25-year-old gay hairstylist who was last seen Christmas Latunski. Michigan State Police officer Dave Kaiser cled to release any addnal Ban, a Schwartz Creek stunt, told his roommate on Christmas Eve that he was leavg to meet a man he found on Grdr, the popular gay datg that night, the roommate received a text om Ban sayg he was havg fun and might not make home that night.