Anti-gay hate crim fell slightly 2020, while anti-trans crim rose, FBI says

Contents:

• QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• THE WORST CRIME AGAST THE GAY MUNY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF -- UNTIL NOW
• TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• WHERE 'S A CRIME TO BE GAY: A VISUAL GUI TO WHERE LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ARE REPRSED
• ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS

QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN

PHOENIX (AP) — The first study of s kd found that people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer or genr non-nfirmg are nearly four tim as likely to be victims of vlent crime than those outsi such muni.

Supreme Court as hears arguments a major LGBT rights se on whether a feral anti-discrimatn law that prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex vers gay and transgenr employe Washgton, U.

Acrdg to Polch, a cultural historian and profsor of global liberal studi at New York Universy, the victim blamg evint acunts of Ivar’s murr was typil of the way the prs vered crim agast gay or prumed-gay men between World War I and the Stonewall uprisg 1969. In the early and mid-20th century, gay and bisexual men were pecially vulnerable to vlence. But crim agast gay men were rarely reported as such the prs.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

What he found was a trove of what he lls queer te crime stori — some ont-page news at the time, some buried and long fotten — that chart a history of vlence agast gay men and of society’s attus toward that vlence. Crime stori, he told me, n reveal “a set of cultural anxieti and uncertati” — and the stori he read for Incent Advanc reveal Amerin society’s evolvg but ever-prent anxieti about gay men and their liv the s before Stonewall. ” We see their echo, he says, the murrs of trans women of lor, often unrreported by the mastream prs, and “the ntued e of gay nversn therapy, which replays post–World War II arguments that homosexualy is a ndn that n be (and should be) cured.

Are we lookg at targeted crim agast gay men, or are we lookg at somethg else? It’s clear, I thk, that gay men were targets bee [perpetrators] knew they uld be robbed or asslted wh ltle nsequenc.

Mostly bee homosexualy was crimalized. It’s unclear whether they were themselv kd of nformg to standards of the time and had some homosexual hookups ocsnally, or whether they were bisexual, or some kd of fluid sexualy.

THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

But what do show, I thk, is how crimalizg homosexual acts, you don’t jt target men who are livg their liv as gay men, but you affect a whole range of sexual practic. When you talk about gay men beg vulnerable, is that bee many would be aaid of gog to the police after a robbery or asslt bee they themselv would be crimalized? At that time, sodomy laws crimalized homosexual behavr, so you uldn’t really fd any reurse the jtice system.

THE WORST CRIME AGAST THE GAY MUNY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF -- UNTIL NOW

It’s clear he was livg his life as a gay man. Once they were arrted and they went to urt, the victim’s fay didn’t want to go to trial bee they were fearful of the publicy that would e wh , makg known their son’s homosexualy.

In the 1950s, and the postwar, Cold War perd, you have the fluenc of [sexologist Aled] Ksey, and other newer theori of homosexualy that saw more as an visible threat. You see the ias of homosexuals and munism: “You never know who might be a homosexual. For me, lookg at te crime stori the prs, I me at thkg, “What n the stori help unrstand about homosexualy, queer sexualy, this perd?

Forty-four percent of lbian women have experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner their lifetime, while 26% of gay men have as well (that number creas to 37% for bisexual men).

TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN

Across the board, LGBTQIA+ dividuals faced more barriers to accsg aid and re — particularly for transgenr people of lor and Black men who intify as gay.

In a 2014 survey, 97% of gay and bi men and 99% of lbians chose discrimatn as their greatt ncern when travellg. Havg to see an article about a homophobia-motivated murr or see transphobic ments a popular film n be hugely triggerg and trmatizg.

Moral stance towards gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2022.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Moral views on gay or lbian relatns the Uned Stat 2001-2022. Victims of anti-homosexualy hate crim U. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Botswana's High Court also led favour of crimalisg homosexualy 2019.

Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts.

WHERE 'S A CRIME TO BE GAY: A VISUAL GUI TO WHERE LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ARE REPRSED

In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn.

But strsed that gay sex remas illegal. Colonial legacyMany of the laws crimalisg homosexual relatns origate om lonial tim. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.

Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Activist groups say the abily of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) anisatns to rry out advocy work is beg rtricted.

ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS

Both victims — olr, whe-llar profsnal men, wh the heterosexual vtments of marriag and children — had last been seen at an upsle Midtown Manhattan gay piano bar lled the begs Elon Green’s terrific, harrowg, te-crime acunt of an elive serial killer who preyed upon gay men the 1990s, perfidly turng the safe havens of gay bars to huntg grounds, and semi-anonymo late-night hookups to an opportuny to kill wh impuny. The most prolific serial killers explo the vulnerabili of the social orr; the “Last Call Killer” took advantage of gay men’s need for discretn and the enmic homophobia of law enforcement.

Here was a generatn of men, more or ls, for whom was difficult to be visibly gay.

Closeted gay people do, of urse, lead rich, satisfyg existenc, even if they leave fewer trac. Gay men prsured to hi their sexualy at the height of the AIDS epimic are particularly sceptible to all-nsumg tragic seems to anticipate this journalistic nundm. Wh great passn, he wins his spe to explore the social value of gay bars to the queer muny and the val work of grass-roots groups like the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, which fought for fair treatment for gay crime victims durg a perd when they were often treated like reer crimals.