Lgbtq killer
Killer given two life sentences for 'unspeakable' murders
In his victim impact statement, Mr Burke, who survived Palani’s attack, said due to the sight loss from being stabbed in the eye, he is limited in his job opportunities as he can no longer hold a HGV license.
He has suicidal thoughts and has gone through “a very dramatic change in my quality of life”.
“I have change into an introvert and detect it hard to be in large groups,” he said.
“I spent 49 years suppressing my sexuality, but had no choice when I was attacked due to my sexuality.”
Mr Burke said the manner in which his sexuality was revealed had a vast impact and strain on his family and friendships.
A victim impact remark from Mr Moffit's family heard that he had a “smile and traits that lit up the world”.
“Family was so essential to him, he was the best son he could be,” the remark said.
“Our family is defeated in grief and forever heartbroken and empty, taken in his prime, we miss Aidan every hour of every day.”
One of the victim impact statements for Mr Snee came from Shannon McManus, his niece who found his body.
“Michael was a second dad, a best ally and amazing person,” her stateme
Bruce McArthur: Toronto serial killer destroyed lgbtq+ safe space
BBC News, Toronto
In a small park in the heart of Toronto's Gay Village, about 200 people assembled in the snow to mourn the victims of an alleged serial killer.
Many wore armbands painted with the words "love", "heal", "rise", "grieve". The words were later used in a call-and-response between organisers and the huge crowd.
"Today we grieve," they said, and the word echoed back from the crowd.
"Today we resist. Today we heal. Today we rise. Today, of all days, we love."
A year later, those names were read aloud in a different caring of call-and-response, as Bruce McArthur, 67, pled guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder.
Who is the accused?
McArthur had grown up in rural Ontario and married a woman in the 1980s.
He knew he was lgbtq+ from a new age, but tried to ignore it, court documents for an assault ask for would later reveal.
The grandfather and father of two came out in his 40s after abruptly leaving his family in Oshawa and moving to Toronto, where he became a regula
QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Gay Serial Killers Continue To Kill
These prolific serial killers could possess been caught sooner if police weren’t so rapid to brush off their victims…
By Courtney Hardwick
If you’re a true crime fan, you know there’s no shortage of books, documentaries, podcasts and original reporting dedicated to the victims of violent crimes and the people who commit those crimes. At the same time, we comprehend that cases that obtain the most attention are usually ones that are committed against white, middle class, cisgender people. From serial killers like Ted Bundy, the Golden Articulate Killer and Paul Bernardo to victims of the most talked-about unsolved cases like JonBenet Ramsey, the media is busy covering a certain (very small) selection of cases. Meanwhile hate crimes, including murders of gay, trans and non-binary people are on the rise. Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on true crime with an LGBTQ+ spin whether it’s the victim or the perpetrator.
This month, we’re taking a glance at some of the most infamous gay serial killers—and how their victims were treated, by the police, the media, and the public. Due to deeply ingrained biases, ign
Professor Elizabeth Yardley, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology, explores what the Stephen Port case tells us about gender, sexuality and hierarchies of victimisation in the Twenty-First Century.
In November 2016, 41-year-old Stephen Port was convicted of the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. He is one of only 50 people in England and Wales to receive a whole being sentence, meaning that he will never be released from custody and will die in prison.
Port was named ‘The Grindr Killer’ by the tabloid compress because he accessed many of his victims through the Grindr dating app. Much of the media coverage of the story and the subsequent widespread interest in the case focused upon this modern way that killers and sexual predators could access their victims.
Indeed, I include researched the use of social media by killers for several years now, exploring how homicide perpetrators use Facebook[i] and exploring the meaning of homicide confessions posted on social networking sites[ii]. However, focusing upon these elements can sometimes distract us from some of the bigger and more pressing issues – issues that a
The Cold Case of an LGBTQ Pioneer Marsha P. Johnson
The Stonewall riots were a pivotal act of resistance for the LGBTQ community — and right in the thick of it was Marsha P. Johnson, “The Rosa Parks of the LGBTQ Movement.”
While some reports signal that Johnson threw the first brick that led to the uprising, there’s no disputing her role in the fight for equality. But outside of the LGBTQ collective, the stories of Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, a fellow LGBTQ pioneer and transgender woman of color, are rarely told. The pair were among a small group of people who started meeting while the ashes of Stonewall were still sizzling. They both founded Street Transvestites Deed Revolutionaries and later created the S.T.A.R. House, which provided food and shelter for LGBTQ youth. They were among founders of the Gay Liberation Front.
They marched for justice, they organized, they resisted. Both died far too little — Johnson in 1992, under mysterious circumstances, and Rivera a decade later, of complications from liver cancer.
Their stories are being told today, in The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a new documentary by director David France (