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Originally Posted by NCB
Yeah, everyone remembers that. The MSM won't allow us to forget.
That's one person. Where is this gay bashing epidemic?
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Billy Jack Gaither, a gay textile worker in Alabama. Murdered for being gay.
Philip Walsted, was bludgeoned to death in a pitch-dark side street off Tucson's Fourth Avenue.
The severed head of Henry Edward Northington, 39, was left on a walkway leading to a popular meeting place for gays.
In 1997, more than 1,000 anti-gay hate crimes were reported to the FBI; 2,930 attacks on lesbians and gay men were documented by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
Attacks Upon Gays and Lesbians: 1999
Documented Incidents: 2,017
Victims: 2,375
Offenders: 3223
Assault Crimes: 705
Robbery/Burglary/Theft: 92
Vandalism: 138
Discrimination: 158
Required Hospital Treatment: 243
Minor Injury: 505
Murders: 29...+12% from 1998
Source:
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/orgs/avproject/1999%20bias%20report%20(final).pdf
This is not an isolated incident. And not just in the USA, in Canada too. But in order for there to be a solution to the problem, people need to realize that there IS a problem.