Anti-gay Violence: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session ... October 9, 1986, Volume 4 |
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Page 168 - ... became a different man. I became very ill, was unable to function, and lost my self-esteem. It's a terrible thing to have killed a man. I have spoken with his family and visited his grave, but this feeling continues. I cannot enjoy life again. The same guys came to my home again in March of 1986, just four months after the shooting. Again they hollered and threw objects In my apartment windows. I called the police. The cop told me, "Gravel, you'll have to understand that these guys will go out...
Page 147 - By definition. of course. we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination. through which we effectively. if often unthinkingly. reduce his life chances. We construct a stigma theory. an ideology to explain his inferiority and account for the danger he represents.
Page 221 - We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it. And we cherish our freedom here at home. But are we to say to the world — and much more importantly to each other — that this is...
Page 218 - And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, 'Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.
Page 50 - attacks against gay men were the most heinous and brutal I encountered. They frequently involved torture, cutting, mutilation, and beating, and showed the absolute intent to rub out the human being because of his [sexual] preference
Page 50 - An intense rage is present in nearly all homicide cases involving gay male victims. A striking feature ... is their gruesome, often vicious nature. Seldom is the homosexual victim simply shot. He is more apt to be stabbed a dozen or more times, mutilated and strangled.
Page 47 - PEOPLE IN THAT CITY WERE AT LEAST FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIMES THAN PERSONS IN THE GENERAL URBAN POPULATION. NEXT WEEK, NGLTF WILL RELEASE A REPORT ON VIOLENCE AND VICTIMIZATION IN 1986. THE REPORT DOCUMENTS NEARLY 5,000 INCIDENTS— INCLUDING HARASSMENT, THREATS, VANDALISM, ASSAULT, ARSON AND MURDER— DOCUMENTED BY 41 ORGANIZATIONS IN 27 STATES.
Page 167 - July I noticed this van on the street and left a note on the windshield: "We all live in the same neighborhood. You live your life. I'll live mine." I even called the mothers of two of the men and asked them to tell their sons to stop bothering me. It did no good. On August 14, the same guys stopped me while I was taking groceries out of my car. They chased me, knocked me down, and kicked me. One said, "I'm going to kill you, faggot.
Page 218 - Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?
Page 34 - CRIMINOLOGISTS. DR. WOLFGANG PRAISED THE NGLTF STUDY AS "ADMIRABLY CAUTIOUS IN THE ANALYSIS OF DATA AND IN THE STYLE OF WRITING. THERE IS NO HYPERBOLE.... I APPLAUD THE EFFORT AND ENCOURAGE FURTHER RESEARCH SO THAT THE DIMENSIONS OF THE PROBLEM MAY BE KNOWN AND EFFORTS CAN BE MADE TO REDUCE THE PROBLEM.