Earlier this week, a 30-year-old gay man was lured to a house where he was beaten and gruesomely tortured for hours. The police have just released information on the case and the NYT now has an article with horrific details.
This man was sodomized, burned, and whipped because he is gay. There are also two 17-year-old victims.
This was done by nine other males ages 16-23 (our age group).
I really have a lot of trouble understanding this disturbing new trend. A string of suicides topped off with this. What is going on? Why now? I am used to hearing about isolated cases here and there, but I am genuinely caught off-guard by this situation. I guess I thought more progress had been made than it actually has.
When you put it this way... it really does seem like a trend. Suddenly, people are becoming more up-in-arms in both the gay rights and anti-gay movements. There seems to be a lot of negativity circulating right now, in particular. Is there something happening to cause this? A historical event or the full moon? It's tragic and it needs to stop.
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ReplyDeleteIts so sad to see something like this happen. It's incredible that human beings can capable of such heinous crimes, even more so when they're founded on intolerance. Also, the stupidity on which these bigoted people act on is incredible. So apparently it's wrong to be gay and that's punishable by torture and death; but torturing and killing a person isn't wrong? I would like to think that in this day and age people are more open-minded about these kinds of issues but acts like this sadly remind me that that's not so true. The only thing left to do is hope that more information about LGBT issues will educate ignorant people so they won't act like savages.