KGOV's List of Gay Mass Murrers |

Contents:

• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS
• MY SON WAS MURRED BY GAY SERIAL KILLER – I SHOULD HAVE SAVED HIS OTHER VICTIMS, SAYS MUM WHO SPIRED ‘FOUR LIV’
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• 'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL
• STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV

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

Image ptn, Stephen Port's victims (L-R): Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whworth and Jack TaylorHomophobia has been led out as an issue the quts for the victims of serial killer Stephen gave four men fatal dos of "date rape" dg GHB and left their bodi near his flat Barkg, east London.

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KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

Port ed datg apps like Grdr to seek out young gay men, before brgg them back to his apartment for sex.

The Grdr killer murred four young, gay men before beg ught by police.

MY SON WAS MURRED BY GAY SERIAL KILLER – I SHOULD HAVE SAVED HIS OTHER VICTIMS, SAYS MUM WHO SPIRED ‘FOUR LIV’

Police have been acced of bunglg the vtigatn bee the victims were gay. “Yet they’ve always wonred about whether there would have been a different oute if the police had vtigated Port properly and taken their ncerns serly, and if their boys hadn’t been gay.

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. 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.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

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. “Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green.

'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

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. ’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then. 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.

STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV

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.