Gay Man Btally Beaten by Stranger on Manhattan Street Hate Crime

Contents:

• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE
• SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT
• GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME
• VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
• GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG
• FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME
• AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER
• GAY SOWETO MAN BEATEN AND ROBBED BY 'GRDR GANG'
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

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

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day.

GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR

The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime.

They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said. (MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town.

Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE

"Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said.

Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said. "The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy. A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct.

SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT

Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred.

GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE

McKney went to trial, and fense attorneys argued his vlent actns were "gay panic" -- a reactn to Shepard makg a sexual advance.

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

"When the fense gets out there and starts talkg out of, the victim's flt, you know, 'gay panic, '...

GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY STRANGER ON MANHATTAN STREET HATE CRIME

"The "gay panic" fense is still legal most stat but has been outlawed a few. McKney has cled to speak to ABC News while Henrson did not immediately rpond to a requt for WashgtonShepard's murr shed a light on the spe of feral hate crime laws, which at the time did not clu sexual orientatn or genr gay activists monstrate the streets of North Hollywood to prott agast the ath of Wyomg Universy stunt Mathew Shepard, Oct.

VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS

13, Mata/AFP via Getty Imag FILEDemonstrators prott the hate killg of gay stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct.

Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns. "Beyond the feral hate crime law, the years sce Matthew Shepard's ath, among the most substantive legislative ws for the LGBTQ muny were the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell 2010, so gay ary members n serve openly whout fear of beg dismissed, and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the untry 2015. Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools.

GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG

In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc. A gay uple was beaten and bloodied ont of the Connecticut gay bar they own.

A gay uple cuddlg agast the ld the U. Was attacked by three young men yellg homophobic slurs earlier this month, and now the pair are aaid to leave their own home bee one of their alleged attackers liv Miedzwiecki, 30, and Lee Cameron Tssler, 28, of Southhampton were attacked early on the morng of May 2 as they waed for a taxi wh a third iend after visg the Edge nightclub. Miedzwiecki told the Daily Echo he and Tssler were holdg hands and cuddlg agast the ld when a group of young men approached om across the street yellg homophobic slurs.

FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

O’Shae Sibley, who was gay, was attacked outsi a gas statn the Midwood sectn of Brooklyn on Saturday night. “They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Otis Pena, one of Sibley’s iends, said a Facebook vio posted after the killg.

Many Republins have sought to monize drag shows, and events have equently been targeted by rightwg New York state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is gay, said he was “heartbroken and enraged to learn about O’Shae Sibley’s ath”. “Dpe homophob’ bt efforts, gay joy is not crime, ” Hoylman-Sigal said a tweet. — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has joed an vtigatn to an alleged Monday asslt of a gay uple who n a cholate shop a cy along the state’s eastern uple, who both live and operate the Wm.

AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER

Poole Confectns shop out of the same buildg Somersworth, reported they were jured an attack by a group of juvenil who shouted homophobic a post on Facebook, William Poole said he was stck on the eye wh a blunt stment and suffered laceratns, bis and stch om the asslt by young people tryg to enter the uple’s send-floor rince.

GAY SOWETO MAN BEATEN AND ROBBED BY 'GRDR GANG'

When nonted on the siwalk, the group shouted homophobic slurs at them, Poole wrote. The ath of O’Shae Sibley, a gay man who was attacked at a Brooklyn gas statn Saturday night, is beg vtigated as a “possible biased cint, ” acrdg to police.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

I was vered his blood, and I’m holdg his stab wound, and O’Shae was jt tryg to tell people, like, ‘Yo, we may be gay, but we’re not, ’s not llg for all of that. “They murred him bee he was gay. Lettg people know that, yeah, we might be gay, but we’re jt celebratg my brother’s birthday, ” Pena said, addg, “Happy birthday to me, right?

Ryan Williams was subjected to a homophobic attack while on his way home om work near Manchter's Gay Village.