Description: A review of the efforts to identify and eliminate violence against gays.
“What is the most important thing our society needs to know about antigay violence?” - Stephen Grant
“That it’s happening.” - Shelby Chestnut, New York Anti-Violence Project
In Greenwich Village, a gay man is shot in the head at point-blank range. Outside an abandoned apartment building, a lesbian is assaulted and gang raped. At a house party, a transgender woman is beaten and strangled by four men. After repeated bullying in his local school, a 15-year-old boy hangs himself. Three Iowa Supreme Court judges are voted off the bench after ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. A lawyer in California submits a ballot initiative, "The Sodomite Supression Act," which calls for shooti