Today,
the seven nations that openly execute Gay men because they are Gay men are:
Iran, Mauritania, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan.
These executions are broadcast live, usually death by beheading to cheering crowds.
In the United States, me and my husband are denied an estimated 1100 Federal and State rights and privileges freely practiced by my heterosexual family and friends, such as being able to visit my husband if he is hospitalized.
Why do the GLBT community since Stonewall continue to be concerned about hate crimes?
Here are 66 reasons:

Acts of violence alleged or proven to have been inspired by hatred of LGBT victims

The beating by Los Angeles police in 1969 of J. McCann, a gay man. McCann later died of his injuries. A panel of coroners found his death an "excusable homicide".
The arson of the The Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans on June 24, 1973, killing 32 people.
The stabbing death of Robert Hillsborough in San Francisco on June 21, 1977 by a man shouting "faggot".
On November 27, 1978, openly gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, along with Mayor George Moscone, was assassinated by political rival Dan White at San Francisco City Hall. Outrage over the assassinations and the short sentence given to White (seven years) prompted the White Night Riots.[20]
Tennessee Williams was the victim of an assault in January 1979 in Key West, being beaten by five teenage boys. He escaped serious injury. The episode was part of a spate of anti-gay violence inspired by an anti-gay newspaper ad run by a local Baptist minister.[21]
The beating death of Terry Knudsen by three men in Loring Park in Minneapolis on June 5, 1979.
The beating death of Les Benscoter on June 15, 1979 in his St. Paul, Minnesota, apartment with the words, "fags will die" written in toothpaste on his furniture.
Robert Opel, the man who streaked at the 46th Academy Awards, owned a gallery of gay male art in San Francisco. On July 7, 1979, Opel was murdered in an attempted robbery of the gallery.
The stabbing death of Robert Allen Taylor on September 7, 1979, near Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A local reporter interviewed the murderer from jail and was told, "I don't like gays. Okay?"
The beating death in New York City on October 7, 1979, of Steven Charles of Newark by a gang of four men. Costabile "Gus" Farace, the leader of the attack, was paroled after 7 years.
The beating of Rick Hunter and John Hanson by Minneapolis police outside the Y'all Come Back Saloon on January 1, 1982. Hennepin County Hospital emergency room staff employees testified in court that the police called the two men queers and sissies while the men were being treated for their injuries.
The beating to death of Declan Flynn in Fairview Park, Dublin, in 1983. The murder and subsequent suspended sentences of the perpetrators who pleaded guilty to murder saw the emergence of a more vocal gay community in the aftermath.[22]
The drowning death of Charlie Howard in Bangor, Maine, in 1984.
On May 13, 1988, Rebecca Wight was killed when she and her partner, Claudia Brenner, were shot by Stephen Roy Carr while hiking and camping along the Appalachian Trail. Carr later claimed that he became enraged by the couple's lesbianism when he saw them having sex.
The fatal stabbing of James Zappalorti (1945 – 1990), a gay Vietnam veteran.
The murder of Julio Rivera in New York City on July 2, 1990, by two men who beat him with a hammer and stabbed him with a knife because he was gay.
The killing of Paul Broussard (1968–1991), a Houston-area banker.
The killing of an unknown homosexual man in Lillehammer, on August 21, 1992. The police investigation took about a year before Bård Faust, the drummer of the band Emperor, was tried and convicted of the killing. He was released from prison in 2002.[23] Apparently the man had suggested gay sex to Faust and after they arrived at a nearby forest, Faust stabbed the man 14 times.[citation needed]
The murder of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen Schindler by a shipmate who stomped him to death in a public restroom in Japan on October 27, 1992. Schindler had complained repeatedly about anti-gay harassment aboard ship.
The rape and later murder of Brandon Teena, a transsexual man (1972 – 1993). The events leading to Mr. Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry.
On March 9, 1995, Scott Amedure was murdered after revealing his homosexual attraction to his friend Jonathan Schmitz on The Jenny Jones Show.
The murders of Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill, a lesbian couple in Medford, Oregon, in 1995, by a man who said he thought their "lifestyle" was "sick".
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 October 7, 1998, fatal attack on Matthew Shepard (1976 – 1998), a gay student, in Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard was tortured, beaten severely, tied to a fence, and abandoned; he was found 18 hours after the attack and succumbed to his injuries less than a week later, on October 12. His attackers are serving life sentences in prison.
The fatal beating of supposedly gay teenager Jeff Whittington in Wellington, New Zealand, on May 8, 1999.
In May 1999, Admiral Duncan pub, a gay bar in Soho was bombed by David Copeland, killing at least two people and wounding 73.[24]
The murder of Pfc Barry Winchell on July 6, 1999. He was dating Calpernia Addams, a transgendered author.

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.The July 1, 1999, murders of gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder by white supremacist brothers Matthew and Tyler Williams. Matthew Williams claimed that by killing the couple he was "obeying the law of God" because he believed homosexuality violated God's laws. Williams said he hoped his actions would inspire further violence against homosexuals and ethnic minorities.
The September 1999 murder of Steen Fenrich, apparently by his stepfather, in Queens, New York. His dismembered remains were found in March 2001, with the phrase "gay nigger number one" scrawled on his skull along with his social security number. His stepfather fled from police while being interviewed, then committed suicide.
In November 1999, Blah Bar, a gay bar in Cape Town, South Africa, was bombed, injuring two people.[25]
The murder of Arthur "J.R." Warren on July 3, 2000, by three teenage boys who believed Warren spread a rumor that he and one of the boys had a sexual relationship. Warren's killers ran over his body to disguise the murder as a hit-and-run.
On September 22, 2000, Ronald Gay entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia and opened fire on the patrons, killing Danny Overstreet, 43 years old, and severely 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;" Gay testified in court that "he wished he could have killed more fags," before several of the shooting victims as well as Danny Overstreet's family and friends.[26]
Aaron Webster, a gay man in Vancouver, British Columbia, was beaten to death in Stanley Park on November 17, 2001.
On June 16, 2001, Fred Martinez, a transgender student was attacked and beaten to death near Cortez, Colorado by 18-year-old Shaun Murphy.
On June 30, 2001, hundreds of Serbian nationalists, skinheads, and soccer hooligans attacked participants of the first Serbian Pride Parade in Belgrade.[27]
The December 2002 homicide of Nizah Morris, a transwoman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the mishandling of the case by the Philadelphia Police Department.
The non-fatal stabbing of Bertrand Delanoë, the openly gay mayor of Paris, in October 2002.
The killing of Gwen Araujo(1985 – 2002), a transsexual woman, by at least three men who were charged with committing a hate crime. Two were convicted of murder, the third manslaughter; however, the jury rejected the hate crime enhancement.
Sakia Gunn (May 26, 1987-May 11, 2003) was a 15-year-old African American lesbian who was murdered in a hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. While waiting for a bus, Gunn and her friends were propositioned by two men. When the girls rejected their advances, declaring themselves to be lesbians, the men attacked them. One of the men, Richard McCullough, fatally stabbed Gunn.
On June 17, 2003, Richie Phillips of Elizabethtown, Kentucky was murdered by Joseph Cottrell. His body was later found in a suitcase in Rough River Lake. During his trial, Cottrell's relatives testified that he lured Phillips to his death, and killed him because he was gay.
On July 23, 2003, Nireah Johnson and Brandie Coleman were murdered by Paul Moore, when Moore learned after a sexual encounter that Johnson was transgender.
On July 31, 2003, 37-year-old Glenn Kopitske was killed by 17-year-old Gary Hirte in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Hirte pleaded insanity, claiming he killed Kopitske in a murderous rage after a consensual sexual encounter with the victim, because he felt a homosexual act was "worse than murder". The jury disagreed, and Hirte received a life sentence.
On June 5, 2004, Jamaican gay rights activist Brian Williamson was murdered in Kingston. His killer, Dwight Hayden, who used a machete to stab and chop him some 70 times, received a life sentence.
On September 28, 2004, Sierra Leonean gay and lesbian rights activist FannyAnn Eddy was raped and murdered while working in her Freetown office. Police ruled the attack unrelated to Eddy's activism. Her alleged attacker escaped from police custody and has not been prosecuted.
On October 2, 2004, multiple assailants in Waverly, Ohio, attacked Daniel Fetty, a gay man who was hearing-impaired and homeless. Fetty was beaten, stomped, shoved nude into a garbage bin, impaled with a stick, and left for dead; he succumbed to his injuries the next day. Prosecuters alleged a hate crime. Three men received sentences ranging from seven years to life.
On January 28, 2005, Ronnie Antonio Paris, a three-year-old boy living in Tampa, Florida, died due to brain injuries inflicted by his father, Ronnie Paris, Jr. According to his mother and other relatives, Ronnie Paris, Jr., repeatedly slammed his son into walls, slapped the child's head head, and "boxed" him because he was concerned the child was gay and feared his son would grow up a sissy. Paris, Jr., was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
On February 27, 2005, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21-year-old James Maestas was was assaulted outside a restaurant, then followed to a hotel and beaten unconscious by men who called him "faggot" during the attack. Although all of his attackers were charged with committing a hate crime, none was sentenced to prison.
On March 11, 2005, Jason Gage, an openly gay man, was murdered in his Waterloo, Iowa, apartment by an assailant, Joseph Lawrence, who claimed Gage had made sexual advance to him. Gage was bludgeoned to death with a bottle, and stabbed in the neck, probably post-mortem, with a shard of glass. Lawrence was sentenced to fifty years in prison.
On June 30, 2005, Yishai Shlisel, a Haredi Jew stabbed three marchers in a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, Israel, claiming he acted on behalf of God.[28]
Jody Dobrowski, murdered in 2005 in London, the two murderers were later sentenced to life in prison.
In September 2005, Lauren Harries, a former child antiques expert who had gender realignment surgery to become a woman, her father and brother were attacked by 8 young men in their home in Cardiff. According to court, the youths were shouting and swearing and were heard to shout out the word "tranny" - a term of abuse associated with hate crime.[29]
In December 2005, a Jamaican mob chased an alleged gay man who, fearful of the crowd, jumped into the water and drowned.[30]
In February 2006, Gisberta Salce Júnior, a homeless Brazilian transsexual living in extreme social exclusion in the Portuguese city of Oporto, was tortured and anally raped with sticks over a period of three days and then thrown into a pit and left to die in an abandoned construction site. A group of twelve to fourteen adolescent boys between the age of 12 and 16 admitted to committing this crime.[31]
On February 2, 2006, 18 year-old Jacob D. Robida 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.[32]
In April 2006, students rioted at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and attacked an alleged gay student.[30]
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.[33]
On June 10, 2006, Kevin Aviance was robbed and beaten by a group of men who yelled anti-gay slurs at him
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. All but one of the attackers were adults the exception being a 15-year-old. The attackers were charged with hate crimes.[34]
On October 8, 2006, Michael Sandy was attacked by four heterosexual young men who lured him into meeting after chatting with him online, while they were looking for gay men to rob. Sandy was hit by a car while trying to escape his attackers. He died five days later, never having regained consciousness.
On February 14, 2007, three gay men and the gay activist Gareth Williams were stoned by a huge mob in a homophobic attack in Kingston, Jamaica. International human rights organisations have described Jamaica as one of the most homophobic places in the world[35][36]
On February 27, 2007 in Detroit, Michigan Andrew Anthos, a 72-year-old disabled gay man was beaten with a lead pipe by a man who was shouting anti-gay names at him. Anthos died 10 days later in the hospital.[37]
On March 15, 2007 in Wahneta, Florida, Ryan Keith Skipper, a 25 year old gay man was stabbed to death. Four suspects were arrested for the crime. The Sheriff is calling it a hate crime.[38]
On April 8, 2007, approximately 100 men gathered outside a church where 150 people were attending the funeral of a gay man in Mandeville, Jamaica. According to mourners, the crowd broke the windows with bottles and shouted, “We want no battyman [gay] funeral here. Leave or else we’re going to kill you. We don’t want no battyman buried here in Mandeville.” [30]
On May 12, 2007, Roberto Duncanson was murdered in Brooklyn, New York. He was stabbed to death by Omar Willock, who claimed Duncanson had flirted with him.
May 16, 2007, Sean William Kennedy, 20, was walking to his car from Brew's Bar in Greenville, SC when Andrew Moller, 18, got out of another car and approached Kennedy. Investigators said that Moller made a comment about Kennedy's sexual orientation, and threw a fatal punch because he didn't like another man's sexual preference.[39]
On May 29, 2007, Michael Marcil, better known as drag queen Dixie Landers was beaten outside of an Ottawa, Ontario gay pub. Andrew Lefebvre and Sheri-Lee Rand have been charged for the attack.[40]
On July 7, 2007, 30 participants at a gay pride event in Croatia were attacked by multiple assailants. The attackers had also prepared Molotov cocktails but were stopped by the police before using them. Many people taking part in Gay Pride marches in Eastern Europe (e.g: Romania, Russia, Serbia) have been beaten after leaving the marches.[41][42]
In September 2007, Osvan Inacio dos Santos, 19, was attacked and murdered in a street near a bar where he had just won the local "Miss Gay" competition in the town of Batingas in northeast Brazil. dos Santos' naked body was found on Sunday morning and forensic examination found his skull had been fractured and indicated sexual assault.[43]
On December 3, 2007, Craig Gee was attacked by four men whilst holding his boyfriend's hand walking down Crown Street in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia. Part of his skull was reduced to powder and his leg was broken during the attack. [44] This incident prompted a vigil against the rising level of homophobia in the city and alleged apathy from police [45], and despite the attack, Gee and his boyfriend joined the Chief of Parade Margaret Cho to lead the 2008 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. [46]
On December 8, 2007 25 year old gay man Nathaniel Salerno was attacked by four men on a Metro train in Washington, DC. The men called him faggot while they beat him.[47]
In January, 2008, three gay men were attacked in the privacy of their dwelling by an angry mob who had days before threatened them if they did not leave the community in Mandeville, Jamaica. According to reports, two men were hospitalised, one with serious injuries, while another man is still missing and feared dead.[36][30]
In February 2008, Brazilian gay rights activist Alexandre Peixe dos Santos was attacked and beaten at the Sao Paulo's Gay Pride Association offices in Brazil. Activists estimate that more than 2,680 gay people were murdered in Brazil between 1980 and 2006[48]
In February 2008, transsexual Duanna Johnson was beaten by a police officer while she was held in the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center. Johnson said the officers reportedly called her a “faggot” and “he-she,” before and during the incident.[49][50]. In November 2008, she was found dead in the street, reportedly gunned down by three unknown individuals.[51]
On February 12, 2008, Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15 year old junior highschool student was shot by a classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California. He was taken off life support after doctors declared him brain dead on February 15. According to Associated Press reports, "prosecutors have charged a 14-year-old classmate with premeditated murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements".[52][53][54]
In Rochester, New York on March 16, 2008 police say Lance Neve was beaten unconscious because Neve was gay. A man attacked Neve at a bar leaving him with a fractured skull, and a broken nose.[55]
In Baltimore County, Maryland on May 29, 2008 eighteen year old Steven Parrish—a member of the Young Swans subgroup of the Bloods—was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone. They felt having a gay member would make their gang appear weak and that by killing Parrish they could prevent that perception.[56]
25 July 2008, 18 year old Michael Causer was attacked by a group of men at a party in Liverpool, England[57] He later died from his injuries. It is alleged that he was killed because he was gay. The case continues.
September 7, 2008 - Tony Randolph Hunter, 27, and his partner were attacked and beaten near a gay bar in Washington DC. Hunter later died from his injuries on September 18th. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.[1][2]
September 13, 2008 in Denver, Colorado 26 year old Nima Daivari was attacked by a man who called him faggot. The police that arrived on the scene refused to make a report of the attack.[58]
November 3, 2008 - Anji Dimitriou and Jane Currie were physically assaulted at an Oshawa, Ontario public school, while waiting to pick up their children. Mark Scott, the attacker, punched both women in the face, referring to them as "men," "fucking dyke bitches" and spitting in Dimitriou's face. He is in court in Jan. 2009, for two counts of assault causing bodily harm. [3][4]
On November 7, 2008 in Newton, NC the home of openly gay Melvin Whistlehunt was destroyed by arsonists. Investigators found homophobic graffiti spray painted on the back of the house. [59]
On November 14, 2008, transwoman Lateisha Green was shot and killed in Syracuse, NY because the alleged perpetrator thought she was gay.[60] Local news media reported the incident with her legal name, Moses "Teish" Cannon.[61]
On December 7, 2008 Romel Sucuzhanya, a 31 year old straight Equadorean and his brother Jose, were attacked on a Brooklyn, New York street for appearing to be gay and for being Hispanic; they were walking arm-in-arm, which is normal for brothers in their culture. Romel later died from his injuries.[62]
On December 12, 2008 in Richmond, California a 28 year old lesbian was kidnapped and gang raped by four men who made homophobic remarks during the attack.[63]
On December 16, 2008 in Washington, DC Durval Martins, 35, was shot in the head and killed while walking home from a local gay bar. Police said Martins’ cell phone, cash, credit cards and jewelry were still in his possession.[64]
on December 26, 2008 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Avery Elzy and Michael Hunt, a gay couple, were killed in their home along with one of their three dogs. A twenty year old man, Christopher Conwell, was arrested on 31 December and admitted to the murders two weeks later. [65]
On December 27, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio 24 year old Nathan Runkle was brutally assaulted outside a gay nightclub.[66]

My two cents, Sizzle:

You said:
no one said all christians are the same... the are as varied as any of us ...
it is just the ones - of any deep rooted organized belief system-
that wish to force their views and "morals" out onto the rest of us that i take GREAT offence to...
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I think it crucially important to always take a step back when experiencing people hyped-up against some entire group.

When one takes a step back, sometimes they can then see the backroom leaders hyping them up. That is, the "leaders" that the "followers" uncritically trust.

That whole survey wreaks of some seeking to mobilize a mass towards attack. The usual tactic of *every* institution that, in order to survive, HAS TO be so organized. The usual tactic of *every* institution, subordinated to "our" war society, which HAS TO do some sort of cynical "service" to the State, that martial-stuck bastion of severe alienation...which most cannot imagine beyond.

The true "enemy" is thought control and the beliefs that such methods are "the only way" to proceed (in the context of one group--knowing it can be attacked, in turn, at any time--stuck in subordinating to the biggest bully). The biggest enemy is how institutions in this reality utilize masses of people to carry out their perceived "interests".

Masses of people who merely want some kind of meaning, some kind of community. And in the absence of something truly meaningful (i.e. informal villages of the pre-colonized days), they cannot help but to adhere themselves to these kinds of traps.

So there you have it, my two cents. I'm open to discussing this phenomenon further with anyone, including those who think this is pure horseshit! (heh)