The second attack is still unsolved despite security camera footage of the suspect (see Figure 3). In 2014 and again in 2015 arsonists firebombed Neighbours nightclub. A man threatened to kill the lesbian bouncer at R Place, the same bar where a patron was the victim of racist and homophobic hate speech this year, Three gay men were threatened with a knife while walking between gay bars in Capitol Hill by Troy Deacon Burns, who shouted homophobic slurs. The influx of heterosexual “tech bros” into Seattle’s gay neighborhood was similarly cited in a string of hate crimes in 2014-2016. Those last two worlds collided in these attacks, culminating when Elliot Morales shot and killed Mark Carson. And there is the world of heterosexuals and the bars they go to. There is the world of gay men and lesbians and the bars they go to. A New York Times reporter attributed a string of hate crime assaults in Greenwich Village in 2013 to the collision of different worlds:
From 2015-2016, dozens of gay men were assaulted in Dallas’ gay bar district. Gay bashers have also used gay bars to locate targets, sometimes nakedly professing anti-gay prejudice as the motivation for their crimes.
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Next to the Stonewall Inn itself, the Fireside Lounge may be the most reproduced real-world gay bars in artistic representations, through its depiction in the award winning play The Laramie Project and the Emmy-winning movie starring Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston.
Matthew Shepard’s attackers met him in Laramie’s Fireside Lounge before killing him, shocking the nation and ultimately spurring passage of the first Federal Hate Crimes Act to cover sexual orientation. For those who wish to do harm, or to send a political message, gay bars have proved a ready target. If police are today expected to serve and protect patrons of gay bars, there is a steady stream of gay bashers and terrorists from whom they need protection. Then, wham! The rest of the squad would lay the poor soldier out, perhaps relieve him of his watch, hop into a Model A… It got so bad Scott Field had to station M.P.’s outside the tavern like doormen. He would lead his victim down the alley toward the Knights of Pythias park. Horsing around outside a Nash showroom recommissioned as the Idle Hour, one of our beefy tackles would wait to be picked up by a G.I. Our high-school football heroes beat them up. Teen culture back in my Illinois home town during World War II had a simple way of dealing with homosexuals. As a New York Times Reporter lamented as early as 1967, the political terrorism of LGBTQ people at gay bars was only recently part of mainstream American culture: It wasn’t so long ago that police were as likely to be agents of political terror in gay bars as public servants and protectors. And more than 15 Black transgender women were killed in Atlanta during a 9-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s after leaving gay bars or clubs, cases that went unsolved.
Two patrons outside Minneapolis’ Gay 90’s were shot in 2010. Three patrons of Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Massachussets were shot by Jacob Robida in 2006 after he received confirmation from the bartender that he had found the town’s gay bar. Danny Lee Overstreet was killed and six others wounded at Roanoake, Virginia’s Backstreet Café by Ronald Edward Gay in 2000. Eleven men were shot from a car outside San Francisco bars by three cousins with a BB gun in 2009. Dwone Anderson-Young and Ahmed Said were shot to death outside Seattle’s R Place in 2014 by Ali Muhammad Brown. And these are just the assaults at gay bars that made mainstream news headlines.Īttacks on gay bars include several mass shootings. Recording artist Kevin Aviance was severely beaten by four men in 2006 after leaving a bar in NYC’s East Village. Sean William Kenney was beaten to death in 2007 outside Brew’s Bar in Greenville, South Carolina by Stephen Andrew Moller. Activist Nathan Runkle was severely beaten outside Dayton’s Masque in 2008. Former Army Seargeant Tony Hunter was beaten to death in 2008 outside Be Bar in Washington, D. Lance Neve was beaten unconscious in 2008 outside Snuggery’s Bar in Spencerport, New York by Jesse D. In 2009, three cousins stormed Robert’s Lafitte in Galveston with rocks and chunks of concrete, sending two men to the hospital. In 2013, nine gay men were assaulted during a four-month period outside Cocktails Cleveland.
history, but it is not an aberration: the crime blotters of the gay press have always been punctuated by attacks on patrons at gay bars. The massacre at Pulse’s nightclub is the worst mass shooting in U.S. Gay bars have always been sites of danger, Terrorists and gay bashers have long used gay bars to find LGBTQ people- only last weekend, my boyfriend and I had “faggots” shouted at us from a speeding car outside a Columbus, Ohio gay bar.