Maryland man arrted after asslts on men he thought were gay: DOJ

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• HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
• MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK
• MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER YEARS OF ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY DC PARK, DOJ SAYS
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
• LOUISIANA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPG GAY TEEN HE MET ON GRDR ATTEMPTED MURR SCHEME
• ARRTED AT STONEWALL, GAY MAN SE PROGRS

HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.

Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg. ’ ”The teenager began to tell the officers the story he would repeat at least three tim that night, cludg at the sexual asslt treatment center where he was taken after his parents were ’d met Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men that requir ers to be 18. The man who had jt driven away was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights the natn’s pal, Parson built an award-wng liaison un that vtigated hate crim, beiend advot and marched Pri paras, slowly revolutnizg the relatnship between the police and the cy’s LGBTQ muny.

”Endg ‘fairy shakg’Parson’s reputatn as a gay hero began wh a sndal. Officer was statng himself outsi a gay club Southeast Washgton. ”The chief stalled after the sndal, Charl Ramsey, saw a solutn to that problem: bolsterg and broang a newly formed Gay and Lbian Liaison, then his early 30s, had been openly gay sce he joed the force.

“I was really, really aaid that my reputatn was gog to change om beg a good p who happened to be gay, to beg a gay p that ed to be a good p. Rather than raid gay clubs, Parson and the five to 15 members of his un would announce themselv over the loudspeaker, then walk around, troduce themselv and pass out reigerator mags wh their phone number on . The number was the workaround for those the muny who need help, but worried about the repercsns of llg 911: a gay man experiencg domtic abe om his partner or a transgenr woman wantg to report a hate crime.

MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK

(Carol Guzy/The Washgton Post) Wh three years of Parson’s beg put charge, the un won a distguished service award om the cy’s Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance, an anizatn formed part to prott discrimatn by law enforcement. Parson boasted that, on a police force wh few openly gay ps, his imposg figure earned him rpect. ” The term is sometim ed by adults the gay muny who intify or prent as and the teenager unlocked the app’s “private media” feature, allowg them to see revealg pictur of each other.

Advot who work wh gay youth say ’s mon for teenagers to explore on datg apps that allow them to meet strangers, pecially if they don’t feel safe exprsg themselv at home or vulnerable kids also e datg apps to seek out adults who will pay them, though mors nnot legally nsent to beg purchased for sex. “I don’t thk a life should be stroyed over one foolish event late one night, pecially when the ntact was ma on a se where everyone is supposed to be a mimum of 18, ” said Rick Rosendall, former print of the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance. Dubbed the “don’t say gay” law by opponents, s supporters bandied about terms like “groomg” to create false lks between homosexualy and child abe, which is mted by people of all sexual orientatns.

“Somethg like this jt plays right to their narrative, ” said John Guggenmos, owner of several gay nightclubs D. A Maryland man was arrted Thursday for allegedly assltg men he believed were gay over a three-year perd a Washgton, DC, park, officials said. A Maryland man was arrted Thursday after thori say he pretend to be a police officer and attacked men he believed to be gay  a Washgton, D.

MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER YEARS OF ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY DC PARK, DOJ SAYS

Michael Thomas Pn, 48, was arrted Virgia after a grand jury dictment charged him wh five unts of asslt on feral land, two unts of impersonatg an officer and a hate crim enhancement allegg Pn asslted four of the men bee he thought they were gay. In 2020, the most recent year that data is available, the FBI reported receivg nearly 700 reports of hate crim targetg gay men, the majory of which volved asslt or ATTACKS:Woman charged wh hate crim after police say she pepper-sprayed 4 people, ma anti-Asian remarks40 YEARS AFTER VINCENT CHIN:Asian Amerins ntue fightg agast hate Detro and beyondIf nvicted, Pn would face up to 10 years prison on each asslt charge. A spect was bted Tuday the strg of attacks on a Hell’s Kchen gay bar — and allegedly told ps he was jt “exactg revenge” on behalf of a gal pal fdg wh the club, police said.

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

“I’m gay myself, ” Kuilan said as he was led out of a police vehicle and rted to urt handcuffs on Tuday eveng. The ctomers were not jured, thanks to the shatterproof pane stalled by owner David DeParola — who said was a preutn agast anti-gay attacks. “Even sce then, there was a Zoom meetg wh lol gay bar owners and the precct clost to that was tend to help crease munitn between .

More than 40 men have reportedly been arrted Nigeria over the weekend for performg homosexual acts, acrdg to men were arrted a raid on a hotel Lagos State on Saturday afternoon, reports Nigerian newspaper Actn: When Com to Genr Equaly, #WeSeeEqualThe group of men are due to appear urt later today, acrdg to the a leadg gay rights activist says the arrts threaten progrs the fight agast the spread of HIV Alimi, a Nigerian LGBT activist who left Nigeria for the UK after receivg ath threats, told the Thomson Rters Foundatn the men were arrted at a private party, where atten were offered unsellg and ttg for the vis which More: Gay Men Are Beg Abducted and Murred by the Chechen Government: Reports“The men were tryg to save their liv and make their untry better by preventg the spread of HIV, ” Alimi relatnships are crimalized Nigeria, along wh a ban on gay marriage, same-sex “amoro relatnships, ” and membership of gay rights groups, wh penalti of up to 14 years is one of 72 untri and terrori worldwi that ntu to crimalize same-sex relatnships, cludg 45 which sexual relatnships between women are outlawed, acrdg to an annual report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). Homosexualy is still punishable by ath, unr sharia law, Iran, Sudan, Sdi Arabia and Yemen, as well as parts of Somalia and northern Matt Buck/ More: The 6 Countri Execute People for Beg GayWhile more than 120 untri have crimalised homosexualy, a -thor of the ILGA report said there was still “no untry the world where LGBT people are safe om discrimatn, stigmatisatn or vlence.

“I’m outraged that 2021 that we have what is sentially a registry of gay sex, ” Stgar said. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) dividuals are disproportnately rcerated, mistreated and sexually victimized U. Rabow whistl are shown hangg at the San Francis Gay Pri Para San Francis, California June 30, 2013.

SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT

Their analysis found that rat of rceratn for lbian, gay and bisexual people were 1, 882 per 100, 000. “Not everyone who has had a same-sex experience intifi as gay, and we were able to look at several measur. Gay or bisexual men were also more likely than straight men to have sentenc longer than 10 years prison.

A Louisiana man admted to kidnappg a gay teenager he met on the LGBTQ datg app Grdr wh the tentn of murrg him and dismemberg his part of a plea agreement, Chance Sene, 21, plead guilty to one unt of kidnappg related to the June 2020 cint, the Department of Jtice announced Thursday. They add that Sene fac addnal crimal exposure if the sentencg urt term that he tentnally selected Whe bee he is gay.

In 2018, Egyptian thori and rints were wily reported to have ed Grdr and other datg apps to entrap and persecute gay men. The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar New York Cy, was no different than many others before s, before and after the rts, some law enforcement officers and agenci targeted known LGBTQ-iendly tablishments an effort to shut them down, btalize patrons, and arrt people who vlated the homophobic and transphobic polici of the time, acrdg to the Natnal Park Foundatn, an anizatn that foc on U.

LOUISIANA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPG GAY TEEN HE MET ON GRDR ATTEMPTED MURR SCHEME

History and Stonewall Uprisg of 1969, the culmatn of days of protts and clash wh police, was the talyst for the morn gay rights movement and is what NYC Pri memorat each year. Reported police misnduct, cludg unjtified arrt, e of excsive force and Samuel, of the Gay Officers Actn League, a nonprof LGBTQIA law enforcement advocy group, said that s members were upset by anizers’ cisn to remove law enforcement groups om the lp.

“Unrver flirtg, engagg whatever the s were that gay men ed to flag each other, to attract each other. “Gay sex was still illegal , like, 15 Stat until 2003, ” Mann said.

“That was the jtifitn for so much blackmailg and harassment of gay people and trans people by the police bee they uld still charge you wh sodomy and you would actually go to jail for havg nsensual sex wh another adult. “Beg a feme man or mascule woman was a signal that you might be gay, ” Mann said.

ARRTED AT STONEWALL, GAY MAN SE PROGRS

Acrdg to the Prison Policy Iniative (PPI), a crimal jtice rearch and advocy group, LGBTQ people, of every age group, are overreprented the crimal jtice 2019, a PPI study found that gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals were 2. Historians say the dispari are long-standg and are part of the ongog movement for gay rights.