Where the world stands on gay rights - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• FBI VTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER HAD GAY LOVERS
• THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
• WHERE THE WORLD STANDS ON GAY RIGHTS
• MAN WH WEAPONS WAS HEAD TO L.A. GAY PRI PARA

FBI VTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER HAD GAY LOVERS

Gayety | Snapchat. Gay Erotic Stori. Sce the shootg at an Orlando nightclub last week that left 49 people ad, reports have emerged that gunman Omar Mateen equented the gay club, ed gay datg apps and had gay the FBI has found no evince so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or munited on gay datg apps, several law enforcement officials said.

Several Pulse regulars have e forward the days sce the shootg, claimg to have seen Mateen at the club or to have been ntacted by him on the gay datg apps Grdr, Jack’d and Tuday, Univisn aired a report which “Miguel, ” a man wearg a disguise to nceal his inty, alleged he had sex wh Mateen after meetg him on the gay datg app, Grdr. He said Mateen had sex wh other men too, cludg a threome wh a Puerto Rin who allegedly told Mateen, after havg had unprotected sex wh him, that he was HIV vtigators do not nsir the man’s acunt credible, acrdg to one senr law enforcement official wh accs to the seekg to verify the reports, feral agents have culled Mateen’s electronic vic, cludg a laptop puter and cellphone, as well as electronic munitns of those who ma the claims, law enforcement officials far, they have found no photographs, no text msag, no smartphone apps, no gay pornography and no cell-tower lotn data to suggt that Mateen — who was twice married to women and had a young son — nducted a secret gay life, the officials FBI is ntug to explore Mateen’s past, but vtigators now believe the men who ma the claims are not credible, or nfed Mateen wh someone FBI has not said whether has unvered any evince that Mateen vised the Pulse nightclub prr to the law enforcement sourc did say that vtigators have not unvered any direct lks between Mateen and members of Islamic State.

“No one is lyg about him beg on there, ” Wt said of the gay apps, addg that “once you have the app and lete your profile, ’s gone. “People died by that man’s hands and [the] only thg this untry is ncerned about is if he is gay or not, ” Wt Ceno, 23, another Pulse regular, sisted he saw Mateen at Pulse months before the shootg and msaged wh him on Grdr for a short time, but eventually blocked him bee he would only send photos and say “Hi.

THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?

“The FBI obvly is tryg to ver up their rmatn, ” he said of gay men who reported beg ntacted by Mateen. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list. But the unrver operatn, which was sharply cricized recently by a judge, also exemplifi a ntroversial, age-old police tactic that many of California’s largt law enforcement agenci have quietly abandoned recent years amid mountg cricism and changg sexual the most-read stori this hour >>In Los Angel, Long Beach and other areas where unrver lewd nduct stgs endure, police fend them as an important tool for tchg people who are vlatg the law and for terrg others om tryg to have sex parks and other public areas ed by fai and activists do not ndone public sex but have long nmned the bts as a form of entrapment, sayg they unfairly sgle out gay men, wh sometim vastatg nsequenc.

But recent years, crics of the stgs have gaed tractn as public attus about homosexualy and gay rights have shifted. “Nobody is gog to fend lewd nduct, but there is a qualative difference between sexual predators and people who engage boorish behavr, ” said Los Angel County Asssor Jefey Prang, who is gay and a former special assistant the Sheriff’s Department who worked wh s LGBT advisory uncil.

Last month, a Los Angel County judge threw out the charg one se stemmg om Long Beach’s 2014 operatn, sayg police were discrimatg agast gay law enforcement agenci have stopped rponse to lawsus or after polil backlash. While lewd nduct plats have dropped dramatilly recent years, Neiman said stgs have been ed to shut down persistent hotspots for gay cisg and lewd acts 11 tim sce 2014.

WHERE THE WORLD STANDS ON GAY RIGHTS

“You still have to enforce the law when you get plats, ” he e of unrver ps to target gay men Southern California stretch back to the early 20th century, when gay sex was illegal, said Lillian Farman, a historian and thor of “Gay L. Brown, “vice specialists” who loered public rtrooms and other areas while rryg out so-lled “pury mpaigns” aimed at gay men Long Beach and Los Angel, Farman wrote, addg that their methods served as a mol for stgs throughout Southern pair had no prr police trag but were given police badg both ci.

They were paid for each arrt and offered their servic to other major ci, she 1914, The Tim reported on an operatn which the two helped arrt 31 men acced of engagg gay sex at private clubs Long Beach.

”Wt Hollywood Councilman John Duran, an attorney who has reprented men cisg s for 30 years, said a typil client was a “eply closeted gay or bisexual man who had hidn renzvo public plac. ” Many, he said, had low self-teem and turned to cisg bee they thought they were unservg of the LGBT movement, said Duran, who is gay, “has produced new generatns of out and proud people who believe they n have healthy sexual enunters.

MAN WH WEAPONS WAS HEAD TO L.A. GAY PRI PARA

” Growg public support of gay rights and the prence of openly gay officers police partments has put prsure on agenci to stop g stgs, he y operatns have drawn fierce Sprgs police sparked outrage 2009 when officers arrted 19 men an unrver stg a neighborhood known for gay rorts.