black gay aths still need answers | AFROPUNK

Contents:

• KILLG OF BLACK, GAY OLE MISS STUNT HAS SCHOOL'S LGBTQ MUNY 'TERRIFIED,' HIS FORMER ROOMMATE SAYS
• A BLACK, GAY MAN IS CRIL CONDN AFTER BEG SHOT BY POLICE
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• WEDNESDAY: FAY OF BLACK GAY MAN KILLED BY NYPD RALLY WH ELECTED OFFICIALS & GROUPS TO FIRE COPS
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS
• FLORIDA TEEN KILLED BY MAN WHO FEARED BEG OUTED AS GAY, POLICE SAY
• BLACK GAY ATHS STILL NEED ANSWERS
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• BLACK, GAY AND SHOT AD HIS OWN R: THIS IS ANOTHER MISSOURI KILLG WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT

KILLG OF BLACK, GAY OLE MISS STUNT HAS SCHOOL'S LGBTQ MUNY 'TERRIFIED,' HIS FORMER ROOMMATE SAYS

The LGBTQ muny at the Universy of Mississippi is "terrified" followg what prosecutors say was the July murr of Jimmie "Jay" Lee, a 20-year-old gay, Black stunt, his former roommate told Insir. "There are people who don't want to e back to school ls that two weeks bee of how sred they are, " she the fear Lee's killg has ed, his ath has h particularly hard bee as a "Black, gay man Mississippi" who equently performed drag unr the name Jay Divaa, he was an spiratn to other queer people Oxford, where the Universy of Mississippi is loted, Johnson said — rememberg her iend as always drsed to the n a full face of makp.

"He wanted to make Oxford his home, and for him to do that, was gog to take him to be that advote and to be that change to make fortable, not tolerated, for gay people to live here, fortable for to live here, " Johson said. 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. 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.

(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. 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.

A BLACK, GAY MAN IS CRIL CONDN AFTER BEG SHOT BY POLICE

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. "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. – Followg a meetg wh the Civilian Complat Review Board (CCRB) and jt days before the four-year anniversary of the NYPD killg of Kawaski Trawick – fay members, elected officials and muny anizatns across New York Cy will jo together to mand the firg of the two officers who killed the Black gay New Yorker his own home.

"WARNING: This feature ntas language that some rears may fd nights earlier, on Tuday 6 October 1998, Matthew Shepard walked alone to a dive bar ptn, Judy and Dennis Shepard at the Matthew Shepard Foundatn Denver last weekThe openly gay Universy of Wyomg hman had jt met up wh iends to plan LGBT awarens week on the town's he uldn't persua them to jo him for a beer the Firi Lounge, the 21-year-old somehow end up chattg to two roofg workers, Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney, both the same age as pair saw an easy mark the 5ft 2, slightly built County Sheriff Dave O'Malley, who was lead vtigator the se, says: "McKney's own statement said he and Rsell went to the bathroom at the Firi bar and they planned to act like they were gay to try to ga Matthew's nfince. It is a momento honour not even acrd to another proment gay martyr, Harvey Milk, the San Francis polician assassated the Denver cy centre offic of the LGBT rights foundatn named after her son, Judy Shepard, 66, is fightg back predicted Friday's ceremony would probably be more emotnal for her than the funeral bee she felt so "numb" immediately after her son's source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A vigil for Shepard New York Cy 1998The origal service, amid snow flurri the fay's hometown of Casper, Wyomg, on 16 October 1998, was picketed by an anti-gay preacher om Kansas.

Reverend Fred Phelps of Wtboro Baptist Church and his flock, who clud children, held plards dbed wh homophobic slurs and shouted to mourners that the ad stunt was burng Shepard, 69, remembers law enforcement makg him wear a bullet-proof vt to step outsi the Epispal church, which had been sured by bomb-sniffg dogs.

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

Shepard's murr stoked the perceptn of Cowboy Country and flyover stat general as a danger zone for gay at his office the cy of Cheyenne, McKney trial lawyer Dn Ctis matas was a robbery gone bad, even while he accepts sexual orientatn was a factor. "However, McKney's own gay-bashg rhetoric damns him the ey of source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Thoands gathered outsi the US Capol for a vigil after Shepard's athDurg a police nfsn, he said he began to attack Shepard bee the stunt had put his hand on his leg durg the r ri.

" Yet another statement to police, he said Shepard simply looked like he was about to grope the jailhoe after his arrt, McKney reportedly wrote to another mate's wife: "Beg a verry [sic] dnk homofobick [sic] I flipped out and began to pistol whip the fag wh my gun, ready at hand. "At trial, McKney's lawyers argued that Shepard had ma their client fly to a rage by touchg his the judge dismissed this "gay panic" a legal strategy - where crimal fendants s of vlent asslt argue they were provoked by an unwanted same-sex sexual advance - is still admissible all but three US stat, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law. Sheriff O'Malley rejects any attempt to downplay the anti-gay element the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Rev Fred Phelps and his flock prott Laramie 1999"We have never disunted ever that the ial motivatn was robbery, " he says.

The moment was re-enacted as a climactic scene 2002 HBO movie The Laramie the angel actn, was replited two years ago Orlando, Florida, when Wtboro Baptist Church tried to dispt the funerals of gay people killed a mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub. However, Sheriff O'Malley mak clear that theory is not supported by the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Judy Shepard (L) at the Whe Hoe 2009 for the passage of the anti-hate crim bill named after her son and a black man killed by whe supremacistsThe Old Buckhorn Bar & Parlor Laramie has a mirror pocked by a bullet hole, and walls that bristle wh mounted antelope, buffalo and patron, Jt Bmmet - who proudly scrib himself as "third class whe trash" - says US progrs on gay rights sce Shepard's ath is to be mend. " Back at the end of the last lennium, many Wyomg apparently thought gay people were as rare on the high plas as jackalop, the state's mythil antlered ptn, (L-R) Universy of Wyomg LGBT stunts Js Fahlsg, Carlos Gonzal and Rihanna KelverShepard's murr - together wh the 2005 gay wboy love story Brokeback Mounta - helped dispel that Connolly, a Universy of Wyomg genr and women's studi lecturer, explas.

WEDNESDAY: FAY OF BLACK GAY MAN KILLED BY NYPD RALLY WH ELECTED OFFICIALS & GROUPS TO FIRE COPS

She reunts facg a "horrific" backlash last year om angry voters when she troduced a gay rights source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A dirt road near where Shepard was left to dieA Democrat, she is one of a handful of female lawmakers Wyomg. Sadly, a far longer list, of more than 34, 400 terrorist killgs sce 9/11 mted by adherents to the relign of peace the name of Allah, is available over at and a shockg number of the high-profile crim that helped to tear Ameri apart were mted by potheads as documented at But here we prent KGOV's list of homosexual mass murrers.

Gay Jefey Dahmer: raped, murred, and ate 17 young men and Adam Lanza: murred 28 cludg 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School Luis Garavo: rapist, torturer, and murrer of more than 147 of Columbia's young Omar Mateen: murred 49 Orlando wh terrible llateral John Wayne Gacy: Chigo, killed 33 boys and buried them his hoe and yard.

KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

He was charged wh six aths but is believed to have murred 60 Charl Manson: a prostute's illegimate son, spent most of his early life stutns for offenc cludg theft, pimpg, multiple homosexual offens while rcerated, and homosexual rape. Serial Killers, who molted and murred 27 young men and boys Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: homosexual nnibal Bar-Jonah sexually molted boys Massachetts and Montana and butchered at least one, a ten year old Great Falls named Zachary Corll, Henley & Brooks: Dean Arnold Corll's sex rg wh Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks murred and tortured 29 men and boys Juan Corona: murred 25 migrant workers and even molted their Richard Speck: murred 8 nursg stunts, bragged about on viotape showg him havg sex wh an mate and braggg about the many mat he had sodomized. Acrdg to transvte Ottis Toole, they were homosexual partners, as reported by Amerin Jtice, "Myth of a Serial killer: The Henry Lee Lus Story", episo Ottis Toole: a transvte acrdg to Amerin Jtice (episo 150) and he was a partner of Henry Lee Lus, and bragged about murrs terviews.

" Of urse, homosexual men reproduce by moltg Stephen Port killed at least four young men rapg them as they were dyg and sexually asslted at least seven other Jürgen Bartsch: this German homosexual murred four boys between ag 8 and 13 and tried to kill Gary Ray Bowl: preyed on olr men and murred six, homosexuals like himself, and was executed Florida Robert Berlla: kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murred at least six men Kansas Cy, Randy Kraft: raped, tortured, mutilated and murred at least 16 young men, mostly Dennis Nilsen: Sttish serial killer and necrophiliac who murred at least 12 young men London, Stephen Port: Grdr homosexual app serial killer dgged and murred four young men Ronald Domique: raped and murred at least 23 men, many of whom he found Louisiana's "gay" Larry Eyler: murred 22 young men and boys cludg a 15-year-old whom he then Arthur Bishop: this child molter and nsumer of child pornography (the distributn of which the ACLU has supported) murred five young Daniel Conahan: this serial killer was nvicted of one and lked to more than a dozen murrs of homosexual Herb Bmeister: murred at least 20 men wh 11 of their rps found buried on his Indiana Joseph Dunn: nvicted of murrg five, nfsed to two others and to rapg many young Vghn Greenwood: this homosexual serial killer, known as the Skid Row Slasher, murred 11 William MacDonald: As Atralia's first serial killer and yet only one of the lns of homosexual Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who were kidnapped and raped to the liftyle, MacDonald murred five Michael Lupo: the sadistic Italian homosexual murred four men London and mutilated their David Villarreal: btally murred five men Texas om ag 18 to Carl Panzram: serial rapist executed at Leavenworth nfsed to sodomizg and murrg many boys and Aileen Wuornos: the prostute who murred seven Black Doodler: murred five and possibly 11 more, homosexuals he picked up San Francis John Joubert: former Boy Sut lear said he enjoyed the "power and domatn" of killg. That rearch-driven book provis extensive, refully documented evince om many primary sourc and mastream sendary historil sourc that many of those nng Nazi Germany, cludg Hler, were homosexuals. Instead, even though the German Natnal Socialists tried to take Christ out of Christmas, unbelievers who reject the Darwist and homosexual fluence on the NAZIs stead sist that they were Christians.

- Gay Aaron McKney was beg pimped alongsi Matthew Shephard, wh whom he ocsnally had unnatural physil relatns, before he and Rsell Henrson murred Shepherd over dgs, a crime that was not the homophobic attack that McKney played as and was then recklsly promoted worldwi by the media. - The Doodler: Five San Francis homosexuals were murred and others asslted 1974 by a man known as "The Doodler" who will, wh high likelihood, turn out to be himself a homosexual.

FLORIDA TEEN KILLED BY MAN WHO FEARED BEG OUTED AS GAY, POLICE SAY

" As naturally as uld be, this verse om the time of the begng of creatn very naturally affirms the two sex (male and female, father and mother) ditg that a man has both a mother and father, not two fathers or two mothers, providg the natural, healthy ntext for the Scripture's future disgt wh and nmnatn of homosexualy. Ed Buck, the Los Angel polil activist acced of preyg on gay black men and forcibly jectg them wh fatal dos of dgs, had at least 10 victims, would dg them while they were unnsc and was known lolly as “Doctor Kevorkian”, acrdg to new urt wealthy Democratic donor, 65, was arrted this week and charged wh nng a dg n more than two years after 26-year-old Gemmel Moore fatally overdosed Buck’s Wt Hollywood home.

”Gyamfi noted that the victims ced Wednday’s urt filgs were only the on who were willg to e forward and talk to police, addg: “Gemmel was a victim, but so were sr of so many other black gay men. A Florida teenager fatally shot another teen bee he feared beg outed as gay, police Daytona Beach Webb, 19, was arrted Wednday nnectn wh the shootg ath of Telan Mann, also 19, the early hours of June 23, police said.

BLACK GAY ATHS STILL NEED ANSWERS

The gay inti of the Black men force them to fail rpectable standards of who n be mourned publicly both the media and the larger cis-heterosexual Black muny, and whose ath n be policized as a tool for change. Jt 22 years after clash wh police outsi the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village opened a promisg new ont the ongog fight for LGBTQ+ rights, AIDS was cimatg the queer muny and hate crim were on the rise, no small part due to the tragilly wispread misperceptn of the vis as a gay disease and lack of unrstandg about how was transmted.

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

Last Call: When a Killer Stalked Queer New York, a four-part HBO seri premierg July 9, lv to the grisly murrs and a not-so-distant past when blatant homophobia was still the norm and queer bars, as one activist puts the show, "were one of the few plac the muny where we uld e and feel safe. "And even then, adds Bea Hanson, who served as a liaison between the NYC Gay & Lbian Anti-Vlence Project and police, "There was always this sort of 'you've got to watch your back at the same time too' sort of feelg. Tony Brooks, a 26-year-old ndidate for cy uncil at the time, told police he and Anrson had gone to Manhattan together the night of May 3 to attend a fundraiser at the Central Park Wt home of Robert Browne, a proment gay rights activist.

"Sometim he went for male pannship, " rells former New Jersey State Police Detective Nick Theodos, who not the seri that Mulhy's murr was the first se that brought him to close ntact wh the gay muny. — 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. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A feral jury on Tuday nvicted a wealthy California polil donor on charg he jected gay men wh methamphetame exchange for sex, leadg to two aths and other overdos.

BLACK, GAY AND SHOT AD HIS OWN R: THIS IS ANOTHER MISSOURI KILLG WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT

Those are the qutns beg whispered at gay bars, asked behd tears fay livg rooms, and maybe even beg answered by the police force here – on the other si of Missouri om Fergon – after the shockg and plited ath of 22-year-old Dnte Greene, who was shot and killed on the morng of Halloween his still-nng r, possibly by a “straight” man who may have agreed to meet him for the mds of Greene’s fay and iends, there is no doubt that he was murred bee he was gay – probably, they say, by the man he cid to meet. ”Greene’s mother and many of the other people I terviewed Kansas Cy fear that sce Greene’s body was disvered a low-e, high-crime area that is predomantly black, his se will merely be classified as another crime agast a black person by a black person – rather than a morn kd of te crime agast a gay man who was also black, by a man who may have been aaid of the they should be worried, bee jtice vanish too often wh s that force police partments and even the most progrsive muni to nsir victims who lived at the tersectn of multiple sexual and genr inti – the plex people who are at a much higher risk of facg hate-motivated vlence, or even perpetratg .

Several of the iends have been terviewed by the ps, too, but the ps still won’t – n’t – ll Greene’s killg a hate the most visibly gay p Missouri’s biggt cy is not allowed to put this se the class of crim that, when acknowledged as they were wh Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd Jr 1998, n actually help addrs the root of the very real vlence that people are facg based on their inti, pecially when they’re black and gay.

When the ps vtigate and lawyers prosecute somethg as a hate crime, teach que the oppose: that we nnot afford to ignore systems like racism and homophobia – that we will not, crim and bias-motivated crim are some of the most unrreported to police, right up there wh sexual and domtic asslt, even though they are so clearly based on the sheer hatred of someone for who they are – even though they should be reported the most. ”Greene’s mother knew what the world thought of gay men – what still thks of – and she knew that her son already had so much stacked agast him as a black man tryg to stay off the streets.