John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, was hanged for sodomy under a law that he had helped to institute. His lover was John Childe, his steward and tithe proctor, also hanged. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641.

Violence against nonheterosexuals sometimes called a subset of hate crimes, can occur either at the hands of individuals or groups, or as part of governmental enforcement of laws targeting people who are seen to violate heteronormative rules. People who are merely perceived to be LGBT (but who are actually not) may also be targeted. Derogatory words such as "Fag," and "Dyke" are also frequently used to victimize an LGBT. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Queer studies is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. ... Image File history File links Gay_flag. ... Gender often refers to the distinctions between males and females in common usage. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... LGBT history refers to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cultures around the world, dating back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality within ancient civilizations. ... LGBT rights Around the world · By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Persecution Violence This timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history details notable events in the Common Era West. ... The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... LGBT rights Around the world · By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Persecution Violence LGBT social movements share related goals of social acceptance of homosexuality or transgenderism. ... Christopher Street Parade Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures concern the culture, knowledge, and references shared by members of sexual minorities or transgendered people by virtue of their membership in those minorities or their state of being transgendered. ... The idea of a gay community is complex and can be very controversial. ... The gay pride or simply pride campaign has three main premises: that people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender identity are inherent and cannot be intentionally altered. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Gay slang in linguistics refers to a form of English slang used predominantly among LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. ... A gay village (sometimes called a gay ghetto and increasingly gayborhood) is usually an urban geographic location with generally recognized boundaries where a large number of gay and lesbian people, as well as bisexual and transgender people live. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... World laws on homosexuality US laws on homosexuality Legality of same-sex unions in Western Europe. ...   CA, CT, MD, NY, NJ, OR, RI, VT, WA See also Civil union Registered partnership Domestic partnership Timeline of same-sex marriage Listings by country This box:      Same-sex marriage is a term for a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage in which two people of the same sex live... A civil union is a recognized union similar to marriage. ... LGBT adoption refers to the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people. ... A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as sex crimes. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, was hanged for sodomy under a law that he had helped to institute. ... François Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le pot pourri de Loth (1781). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A hate crime (bias crime), loosely defined, is a crime committed because of the perpetrators prejudices. ... Heteronormativity is a term used in the discussion of sexual behavior, gender, and society, primarily within the fields of queer theory and gender theory. ...

Anti-LGBT violence can include threats, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, rape, torture, attempted murder, or murder. These actions may be caused by cultural, religious, or political mores and biases, though the extent to which these groups influence violence against LGBT individuals is an ongoing matter of debate. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sexual assault is any physical contact of a sexual nature without voluntary consent. ... Torture is defined by the United Nations Convention Against Torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mores are strongly held norms or customs. ... Homophobia is the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ...

Statistics

In the United States, the FBI reported that 15.6% of hate crimes reported to police in 2004 were based on perceived sexual orientation. 61% of these attacks were against gay men, 14% against lesbians, 2% against heterosexuals and 1% against bisexuals, while attacks against GLBT people at large made up 20%.^[1] Violence based on perceived gender identity was not recorded in the report. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

State-sponsored violence

Main article: Homosexuality laws of the world

Sexual relations between individuals of the same sex have frequently been repressed by the state under pain of mutilation and death. Such events (represented as buggery or sodomy) took place in Europe from the fifth to the twentieth centuries, and in Muslim countries from the beginning of the Muslim era up to and including the present day. Among the states that have historically punished homosexuality with death are: World laws on homosexuality US laws on homosexuality Legality of same-sex unions in Western Europe. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

The knight von Hohenberg and his squire, being burned at the stake for sodomy, Zurich 1482 (Zurich Central Library)

• The Roman Empire starting under Constantine around 400.
• Abbasid Baghdad under the Caliph Al-Hadi (785-786)
• The City of Florence during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  • Illustrative victims: Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365?), Florentine boy, castrated and "burned between the thighs with a red-hot iron" by court order;
• The Swiss canton of Zürich in the Renaissance
  • Illustrative victims: Knight von Hohenberg d. 1482, Swiss knight, burned at the stake together with his lover, his young squire;
• The kingdom of France during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  • Illustrative victims: Jacques Chausson (1618 – 1661), French minor writer, burned alive for attempting to seduce the son of a nobleman;
• England from the Middle Ages until 1861;
  • Illustrative victims: William Hamilton Maxwell, 1829; King Edward II
• Nazi Germany; see History of homosexual people in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban (1996-2001)

Iranian youths Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni executed in 2005 reportedly because they had been caught having sex with each other.

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Individual violence

Individuals, singly or in groups, have at times taken it upon themselves (usually flouting the law) to repress those alleged to manifest variant sexual behavior. In some legal jurisdictions in the United States, these acts may be legally classified as hate crimes, which increases the resulting penalty if convicted. A Jewish cemetery in France after being defaced by Neo-Nazis. ...

Some notable incidents of hate-related assaults include:

• Tennessee Williams was the victim of an assault in January 1979 in Key West, being beaten by five teenage boys, but he was not seriously injured. The episode was part of a spate of anti-gay violence inspired by an anti-gay newspaper ad run by a local Baptist minister.
• The fatal stabbing of James Zappalorti, a gay Vietnam veteran (1945 – 1990)
• The rape and later murder of Brandon Teena, a transsexual woman (1972 – 1993)
• The bombing of the Otherside Lounge, a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta, by Eric Robert Rudolph, the "Olympic Park Bomber," on February 21, 1997; five bar patrons were injured.
• The beating death of Matthew Shepard, a gay student (1976 – 1998)
• The murder of Pfc Barry Winchell on July 6, 1999. He was dating Calpernia Addams, a transgendered author.
• The bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub by David Copeland in 1999
• The gang-rape and murder of Fannyann Eddy in 2004, shortly after giving a speech about the threats of violence faced by lesbians and gays in Sierra Leone.
• The fatal beating of gay teenager Jeff Whittington in Wellington, New Zealand on May 8, 1999.
• One notorious incident of gay-bashing occurred on September 22, 2000. Ronald Gay entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia and opened fire on the patrons, killing Danny Overstreet and injuring six others. Ronald said he was angry over what his name now meant, and deeply upset that three of his sons had changed their surname. He claimed that he had been told by God to find and kill lesbians and gay men, describing himself as a "Christian Soldier working for my Lord".^[2]
• The non-fatal stabbing of Bertrand Delanoë, a gay politician, Mayor of Paris, France, in 2002
• The killing of Gwen Araujo (née Edward Araujo, Jr.), a transsexual woman (1985 – 2002)
• The killing of Paul Broussard, a Houston-area banker (1968-1991)
• The beating death of Charlie Howard in Bangor, Maine in 1984.
• Aaron Webster, a gay man in Vancouver, British Columbia, was beaten to death in Stanley Park in 2001.
• On June 30, 2001, Hundreds of soccer hooligans attacked participants of the first Serbian Pride Parade in Belgrade.
• On June 30, 2005, Yishai Shlisel, an ultra-orthodox Jew stabbed three marchers in a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, Israel, claiming he acted on behalf of God.^[3]
• Jody Dobrowski, murdered in 2005 in London.
• On February 2, 2006, 18 year-old Jacob D. Robida allegedly entered a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, confirmed that it was a gay bar, and then attacked patrons with a gun and a hatchet, wounding at least three.^[4]
• On April 6, 2006, two American television producers, CBS Evening News senior producer Richard Jefferson and 48 Hours producer-researcher Ryan Smith, were beaten with a tire iron outside the Sunset Beach Bar on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten by a group of four men and two women. The attack left Smith unable to speak properly, having suffered a skull fracture and brain damage.^[5]
• On July 30, 2006, six men were brutally beaten after leaving the San Diego, California Gay Pride festival. One of the gay men was beaten so badly that he had to undergo extensive facial reconstructive surgery. The attackers were all adults, except for a 15-year-old and were charged with hate crimes.^[6]

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See also

• Pink Pistols
• Homophobia
• Biphobia
• Transphobia
• Gay panic defense
• Hate speech
• Anti-gay slogan
• Murder Music
• Hate Crimes

The Pink Pistols are a gay gun rights organization in the United States. ... Homophobia is the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ... Biphobia is the fear of, discrimination against, or hatred of bisexuals (although in practice it extends to pansexual people too). ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Hate groups Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution · Gay bashing Pedophobia · Ephebiphobia Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Supremacism Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights LGBT rights Womens/Universal suffrage · Feminism Mens/Fathers rights · Masculinism Children... Gay panic defense is a term used to describe a rare but high-profile legal defense against charges of assault or murder. ... Hate speech is a controversial term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic class, occupation or appearance... Anti-gay slogans are catchphrases or slogans which express opposition to homosexuality in ways which gay rights activists consider to be irrationally hostile or fearful (see homophobia and also anti-gay). ... A hate crime (bias crime), loosely defined, is a crime committed because of the perpetrators prejudices. ...

External links

• Remembering our Dead, a site which memorializes transgender victims of violence.
• Barry Yeoman, Murder on the Mountain, Out Magazine
• Gay Bashings In Schools- A survey released in 2006 shows that gay teens still experience homophobic attacks in their schools
• Pictures from Belgrade (Serbian) Pride Parade 30 June 2001

References