The assailants were arrested, and one was later charged with hate crimes.
Two men attacked another man in the restroom in 2010 after he informed them that they were in a gay bar. The Stonewall Inn played a central role in the modern gay rights movement, but it has also seen antigay and anti-transgender violence in recent years. He told the court that he could not remember setting the fire because he had blacked out after drinking an entire bottle of whiskey. Masmari pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2014. More than 700 people were in the club at the time, including much of the city’s gay and transgender leadership, but no one was hurt. Musab Mohammed Masmari, 30, poured gasoline on the stairs of a gay club and set it alight shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve. He was sentenced to four life terms in 2001. Gay, who told the police he was on a mission to kill gay people, said he was upset that his last name had made him the target of anti-gay jokes. I wasn’t out to anybody except my very close friends.” “When it happened, I was not out to my family,” Joel Tucker, who was shot in the back during the rampage, told The Washington Post last year. A second, unexploded, bomb was later found outside. Atlanta, 1997įive people were injured when a bomb exploded at a lesbian bar, the Otherside Lounge, in February 1997. The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote in 2013 that the lounge was “not just any bar, but as a gay community hangout where locals could gather without fear of social persecution” at a time of intense anti-gay stigma.
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