#Winfield Mowder

[whiteterrorists]

July 1, 1999

A gay couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder, are shot to death in bed at their home near Redding, Calif. Days later, after tracking purchases made on Mowder's stolen credit card, police arrest brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams. At least one of the pair, Matthew Williams (both use their middle names), is an adherent of the anti-Semitic Christian Identity theology. Police soon learn that the brothers two weeks earlier carried out arson attacks against three synagogues and an abortion clinic in Sacramento. Both brothers, whose mother at one point refers in a conversation to her sons' victims as "two homos," eventually admit their guilt — in Matthew's case, in a newspaper interview. Matthew, who at one point badly injures a guard in a surprise attack, commits suicide in 2002. Tyler, who pleads guilty to an array of charges in the case, is given two sentences amounting to 50 years to be served consecutively.

https://www.splcenter.org/20180723/terror-right

[brittanyroars]

So this is all in America: Harvey Milk. Assassinated 1978 San Fran Lesbian Bar. Women attacked by off duty police. 1979 Tennessee William. Beaten by teenagers, 1979 Charlie Howard. Drowned to death 1984 Rebecca Wight. Straight guy saw her have sex with partner. Shot to death. 1988 James Zappalorti. Gay Vietnam War vet. Stabbed to death. 1990 Paul Broussard. Murdered. 1991 Allen Schindler. Stomped to death by fellow US navy officer. 1992 Brandon Teena. Trans, was raped and murdered when birth gender revealed. 1993 Scott Amedure. Admitted attraction to friend. Murdered. 1995 Roxanne Ellis & Michelle Abdill. Lesbian couple, murdered, 1995 Ali Forney. Trans, Shot to death. 1997 The Otherside Lounge. Lesbian club, Bombed. 1997 Matthew Shepard. Gay student, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die. 1998 Gary Matson & Winfield Mowder. Gay couple. Murdered. 1999 Barry Winchell. US Army Pfc. Beaten to death with Baseball bat. 1999 Steen Fenrich. Murdered by stepfather. 1999 Arthur Warren. Beaten to death. 2000 Danny Overstreet. Shot to death & 7 injured when a man entered a gay bar to "Do Gods work". 2000 Nizah Morris. Trans. Homicide. 2002 Gwen Araujo. Trans. Murdered 2002 Sakia Gun. 15 years old lesbian. Murdered when two guys propositioned her and her friend. When they said they were lesbians, they attacked. 2003 Richie Phillips. Murdered. 2003 Glenn Kopitske. Shot and Stabbed. 2003 Scotty Weaver. Beaten, strangled, stabbed partially decapitated, and doused in gas. 2004 Ronnie Paris. THREE YEAR OLD BOY MURDERED BY HIS FATHER BECAUSE HE WAS CONCERNED HIS BOY WAS GOING TO BE GAY AND GROW UP A SISSY. (if you still reading this and still think Boston should have a straight parade GO FUCK YOURSELF.) 2005 Jason Gage. Murdered with a bottle, and stabbed in the neck. 2005 Six men were attacked with baseball bats and knives leaving a gay pride festival. 2006 Michael Sandy. Lured by four men into meeting after chatting online. He was struck by a car trying to escape. Died. 2006 Andrew Anthos. 72, disabled gay. Beaten with a lead pipe. 2007 Sean William Kennedy. Punched to death. 2007 Duanna Johnson. Trans, beaten by a police officer. Several months later, found gun down by three unknown individuals. 2008 Lawrence King. 15,  shot twice by classmate. 2008 Angie Zapata. Beaten to death. 2008 Nima Daivari. Attacked by a man who called him faggot. Police came, refused to report it. 2008 Illinois elementary school bus driver lead a homophobic attack on a 10 year old, with the other passengers. (Again, still reading? Still want that parade? Go fuck yourself.) 2008  Lateisha Green. Trans, shot, 2008 Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover.  11 years old.  Hung himself with an extension cord because of  his peers who said he acted feminine and gay. (Do I really have to say it?) 2009 Seaman August Provost. Shot, and burned at his guard post. Another victim of "don't ask, dont tell.". 2009 CeCe McDonald. Trans, stabbed to death with scissors. Attacker only got 19 months. 2011 Mark Carson. Shot to death by a man who trailed and taunted him. 2013. 49 killed. 53 injured. Orlando Nightclub. 2016.

Bonus round: Here are some articles for ones within the last few months not just in the states but also around the world.

https://www.apnews.com/7120d51cef74406fbb4f070327951190

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/us/austin-texas-hate-crime/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gay-couple-beaten-southbank-london-hate-crime-met-police-a8716851.html

https://centerforblackequity.org/neighbors-refused-to-call-police-as-gay-couple-beaten-and-stabbed-outside-home/

https://www.outsports.com/2018/6/14/17464374/gay-world-cup-russia-attack

https://www.kmov.com/news/video-captures-brutal-beating-of-gay-couple-at-miami-pride/article_2b1ed709-ae98-5abf-80de-7bb5a48323cc.html Go ahead. Tell me how many straight hate crimes happen in America. I will be sitting here waiting.

[raleigh-in-the-garden]

On July 1, 1999, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder were shot and killed in their Happy Valley home. The motive was clear: The attackers believed that, because Matson and Mowder were gay, they had to die.