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Contents:

• ATRALIAN MAN NVICTED S-OLD GAY HATE MURR OF AMERIN
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• MAN WHO KILLED GAY SECRET ADMIRER OM ‘JENNY JON SHOW’ GETS PAROLE
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• GAY MAN BTALLY MURRED AND BEHEAD BY FAY 'HONOUR KILLG'
• KILLER ‘JENNY JON’ GAY CSH MURR RELEASED OM PRISON
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• 1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

ATRALIAN MAN NVICTED S-OLD GAY HATE MURR OF AMERIN

SYDNEY — An Atralian man has plead guilty to murrg an Amerin mathematician who fell om a Sydney cliff 1988 a gay hate crime that was dismissed by police at the time as Whe was charged 2020 wh murrg 27-year-old Los Angel-born Stt Johnson, whose naked body was found at the base of North Head cliff on Dec. A ronial qut — a urt-like proceedg held after unual aths — led 1989 that the openly gay man had taken his own life, while a send roner 2012 uld not expla how he died. Johnson’s fay sought a third qut, and State Coroner Michael Barn led 2017 that Johnson “fell om the cliff top as a rult of actual or threatened vlence by unintified persons who attacked him bee they perceived him to be homosexual.

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.

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

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. But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly.

It was fairly well known the Laramie muny that McKney wouldn’t be one that was strikg out of a sense of homophobia. So why has he put such time and effort to attemptg to prove that Matthew’s murr was not a hate crime, pecially as has seen him acced of beg an ally to the rightwg Christian fundamentalists who ny the realy of homophobia? “The view was that homophobic rednecks walked to a bar and saw an obvly gay man wh money and targeted him and beat him to ath for that reason, ” says Jimenez.

MAN WHO KILLED GAY SECRET ADMIRER OM ‘JENNY JON SHOW’ GETS PAROLE

That plit the origal story of two strangers walkg to a bar and targetg Matthew – someone they did not know – bee he was gay. ”Wypijewski thks the reason some sectns of the gay muny are so angry about the Jimenez book is obv: “Jimenez has taken away their angel, and there is the reflexive sense that as a muny s sufferg was beg at last regnised.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

“Keepg Matthew as the poster boy of gay-hate crime and ignorg the full tragedy of his story has been the agenda of many gay-movement lears, ” he says. Henson told me he believ that The Book of Matt is “nothg more than the tth” and that he was “never certa” that the murr was an anti-gay hate crime.

Photograph: Evan Agosti/Getty Imag Photograph: Evan Agosti/Getty ImagOn 16 September the Casper Star Tribune, the lol paper Matthew’s home town, published an edorial claimg that an award Jimenez had recently received for his book “serv rejectn”, sayg: “From the begng there have been those who want to ignore the sadistic homophobic motiv of Shepard’s attackers and stead sist the matter was a dg al gone bad. Matthew Shepard’s murr will always be, for some, a symbol of the hatred many lbians and gay men face the US and beyond. But the mystery remas – not so much why Matthew died, but why the gay muny, after almost five s of mpaigng for equal rights, reli so fundamentally on the image of the perfect martyr to reprent the e.

A gay mate Texas who died prison was murred and did not die by ath of Jt Levi Galloway, was a "homici" rultg om "ligature/asphyxiatn" acrdg to lol KJAS which obtaed a py of the topsy report. A young gay man was tortured, burned, and killed Mexi after he revealed at a party that he was livg wh HIV, activists say.

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

READ NEXTJapane Pop Star Com Out as GayActor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks ControversyChechen Pop Star Was Tortured and ExecutedPope Tells Transgenr Catholic: “God Lov Us As We Are”. — 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.

GAY MAN BTALLY MURRED AND BEHEAD BY FAY 'HONOUR KILLG'

Invtigators say Bowl survived by lettg gay men perform sex acts on him for money, though he has said he was straight.

The Sixth Commandment9pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall stars this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifyg real-life se of Peter Farquhar, an elrly, eply closeted gay amic who was sced, exploed and eventually murred by too-good-to-be-te stunt Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke). A Gay Iranian man was btally murred by his brother and s after they found the Iranian ary exempted him om service bee of 'sexual pravi'. 'Alireza’s killg as a rult of his sexual orientatn beg stated on his ary service [exemptn] rd has once aga provid proof for our warng several years ago about the risks ed by the ary service exemptn procs for gay Iranian men and unrl the need for legislatn to prevent the safety risks, ' 6rang said a statement shared on Instagram, which was translated by Iran Internatnal.

The LGBT+ work had prevly warned that the exemptn procs allows law enforcement officials, the judiciary, employers and tnal stutns to 'intify gay men wh only one glance at the ary service exemptn rd'. A Michigan man who murred a gay admirer three days after the victim revealed his same-sex csh on the “Jenny Jon” talk show has been set ee after 22 years prison. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.

KILLER ‘JENNY JON’ GAY CSH MURR RELEASED OM PRISON

In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them. Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed. Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer. Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock.

”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se.

As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were. While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay.

ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year old Iranian man, was behead what an Iranian human-rights group says was an "honor killg" by fay members after they learned he was gay. "The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia' is g up on Monday (May 17), " Okan Sengun, the executive director and founr of the LGBT Asylum Project, said. Homosexualy is nsired a psychologil disease IranWhile beg gay is forbidn Iran and punishable by ath, the law allows gay men to fo ary service.

"Homosexualy is also nsired a psychologil disease Iran, and the ary's ary board n exempt a gay man om service if they are emed homosexual after an examatn, " she add. "I thk their hate of homosexualy was so huge that they cid to kill him, " she May 4, Monfared ma the fal preparatns for his parture. The activist hop the vios rm people of queer people's liv Iran, where punishments for beg gay range om 100 lash of the whip to, the munitns director for the Center for Human Rights Iran, said homophobia was wispread the untry.

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

"In the days followg the killg, Okan Sengun of the LGBT Asylum Project said he received many emails om gay Iranians who were heartbroken by Monfared's ath. Who is a former manr of Bronx homici for the New York Cy Police Department stated 1995 regardg homosexual murrs that homosexual murrs are relatively mon and the murrs may volve male victims murred by other mal or may volve female victims who are some type of lbian relatnship and they are murred by another female. Dhattarwal reported the Journal of Indian Amy of Forensic Medice that homosexual murrs are que mon and that the murrs may volve both sex eher as victims or as assailants.

Eckert wrote regardg homosexual murrs the followg: "Equally high is the number of homicis, many probably related to transient attachments, which often lead to spicn, jealoy, and murr. The ement pathologists Bernard Knight and Pekka Skko stated that is a fact that some of the most vlent homicis seen by pathologists are among male homosexuals. Homosexual activy, however, may be a parallel event; is a fact that some of the most vlent homicis seen by pathologists are among male homosexuals.

1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)

The "Lovers' quarrels" between male homosexuals manift an creased level of vlence due to the fact that the parti volved the emotnal nflict are both sexual aggrsors... Homosexual slayers clearly have no monopoly on vlence, but is te that their crim often display extrem of "overkill" and mutilatn...

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

On balance, seems fair to say that while homosexuals sometim fall prey to "gay bashg" vlence by bigoted "straights, " they are far more likely to be murred by another homosexual than a random hate crime.

THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

The prevly ced pathology textbook by Knight and Skko stated the followg: "In addn, que a number of fatal altertns arise bee a heterosexual man be vlent when importuned by a homosexual. In 1996, the forensic journal The Amerin Journal of Forensic Medice and Pathology published an article entled Homici homosexual victims: a study of 67 s om the Broward County, Florida, Medil Examer's office (1982-1992), wh special emphasis on "overkill". We quantified the number and extent of juri between homosexual and heterosexual homici victims to terme whether one group suffered more vlence than the other...