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| • Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky;
• John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them
under his house and in his yard;
• Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small
pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles
freeways;
• Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois;
• A gay sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men
and boys to their grave; and
• Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he "made
love" with their corpses).
Violence and Homosexuality By Paul Cameron, Ph. D.
Dr. Cameron is Chariman of the Family Research Institute of Colorado
Springs, Colorado USA. Click here for more information about this
organization. You may contact him at: Family Research Institute, PO Box
62640, Colorado Springs, CO 80962 USA. Phone number: (303) 681-3113.
In 1992 two Jeffersonville, Indiana lesbians, aged 17 and 16, abducted
a 12-year-old girl whom they accused of trying to "steal a girlfriend."
The little girl was pushed into the trunk of a car, stabbed repeatedly,
and beaten with a heavy metal bar. While still struggling, they poured
gasoline on her and set her ablaze. Later that year a Fort Lauderdale,
Florida 14-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder for helping to
kill his 40-year-old father. The father "was stabbed 45 times and
beaten so badly with an iron skillet that the skillet shattered." The
boy confessed that he helped his father’s former homosexual lover and
roommate kill him so he and the 31-year-old "could live together."
These murders fit traditional psychiatric opinion: excessive violence
is naturally associated with other forms of social pathology. From this
perspective, those who rebel against society’s norms – homosexuals,
prostitutes, alcoholics, etc. – are more apt to be violent also. Gay
leaders reply that they are not pathological, rebellious, or sexually
deviant. They contend that gays are gentle, loving people and that the
violence they experience proves that they need special ‘hate crime’
laws to protect them from non-homosexual ‘gay bashers.’
Who’s right? Does the excess of violence naturally well up from within
a pathological gay subculture or do outsiders direct it toward
homosexuals? Keeping in mind that only about 2%—3% of adults are
homosexual or bisexual, (1) let's examine varieties of violence.
Murder and Mass Murder
Although the total number of victims dispatched by a given killer is
often in doubt, (e.g., homosexual Henry Lucas claimed that he killed
350), it appears that the modern world record for serial killing is
held by a Russian homosexual, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in
1992 of raping, murdering and eating parts of at least 21 boys, 17
women and 14 girls. The pathology of eating one’s sexual victims also
characterized Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer in 1992. He not only killed 17
young men and boys, but cooked and ate their body parts. The top six
U.S. male serial killers were all gay:
• Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky;
• John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them
under his house and in his yard;
• Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small
pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles
freeways;
• Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois;
• A gay sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men
and boys to their grave; and
• Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he "made
love" with their corpses).
Lesbian Aileen Wuornos laid claim in 1992 to "worst female killer" with
at least 7 middle-aged male victims. She singlehandedly topped the
lesbian nurse team of Catherine Wood and Gwen Graham, who had killed 6
convalescent patients in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The association between serial murder and homosexuality isn’t recent.
Two gays compete for the spot of "world’s worst murderer." During the
Nazi reign of terror, Auschwitz executioner Ludwig Tiene strangled,
crushed, and gnawed boys and young men to death while he raped them.
Though his grand total is uncertain, he often murdered as many as 100 a
day. Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) brutally destroyed the lives of 800
boys. Each lad was lured to his home, bathed and fed. Just as the poor
boy thought "this is my lucky day," he was raped, then killed by being
ripped or cut apart and either burned or eaten.
A study of 518 sexually-tinged mass murders in the U.S. from 1966 to
1983 determined that 350 (68%) of the victims were killed by those who
practiced homosexuality and that 19 (44%) of the 43 murderers were
bisexuals or homosexuals.(2)
Though probably less than a majority of mass murderers are homosexual,
given that no more than 3% of the populace is gay, homosexual murderers
show up much more frequently than one would expect (even Richard Speck
engaged in homosexuality). Along with serial murder, there appears to
be a connection between homosexuality and murder. Evidence from before
the gay rights movement is limited. Of 444 homicides in one
jurisdiction from 1955-1973, investigators noted 5 clear "sexual
motivation" murders. Three of the 5 involved homosexuality and 2
involved heterosexuality. (3)
Probing more deeply into the connection between murder and
homosexuality, Jim Warren, who worked as a counselor at the Washington
State Corrections Center, did the intake interview for almost all the
younger murderers (i.e., under age 36) in the state of Washington from
1971-82 (during the growth of the gay rights movement). He was
"probably the only one who examined the entirety of each of their case
files." Warren testified (4) that he was struck with how frequently
homosexuality turned up in the cases.
Starting with a trickle of 2 or 3 murders/year in 1972 until
dozens/year by the 1980s, he noted a recurrent pattern: Although the
motive listed in the report was often robbery or theft, "about 50% of
the time" it was also associated with homosexuality. Typically, a
homosexual would meet someone at a bar or park and invite him to his
home. Before the morning, an argument would ensue and he or his visitor
would be dead.
Violent Sexual Practices
A substantial minority of homosexuals (between 22% (5) to 37% (6,7) )
indulge in painful or violent sex (e.g., bondage and discipline [B/D],
where the partner is physically restrained and mildly tortured, or
sadomasochism [S/M], where partners are tortured or hurt during sex).
Even in the 1940s, psychiatrist David Abrahamsen (8) noted, "It is well
known that homosexual inclinations may be accompanied by sadistic or
masochistic tendencies.... These perversions play a great part in many
sexual offenses and in many cases of murder." In a national survey of
random samples of homosexuals and heterosexuals, (7) 32% of those males
who called themselves homosexual or bisexual versus 5% of heterosexual
males reported having engaged in sadomasochism; 17% of lesbians versus
4% of heterosexual women also admitted to S/M. Likewise, gays and
lesbians were about four times more apt to engage in bondage than were
heterosexuals.
• Homosexual books and magazines celebrate the "fun" of violent sex.
For instance, a Denver gay columnist (the "leathersex fairy"), told
his readers how to strangle and flog one’s partner during sex. He
also extolled the practice of "hanging from a tree by meat hooks
through the pectoral muscles" and described "guys who like to have
burning cigars, cigarettes, or matches held near or pressed into
their skin." (9) Likewise, national and international gay tour books
matter-of-factly list places where sadomasochistic sex can be
obtained. (10)
• In 1993, London gays raised £100,000 to appeal a conviction in which
the judge ruled that "sex is no excuse for violence.... Pleasure
derived from the infliction of pain is an evil thing." The crime?
"Nailing a foreskin and scrotum to a board" and "pouring hot wax in a
urethra." (11)
• The 1980 CBS-TV documentary, Gay Power, Gay Politics reported that
about 10% of the accidental deaths among young men in San Francisco
resulted from sadomasochistic sex gone awry.
Deliberately Infecting Others During Sex
Gay activists often argue that what consenting adults do in private is
nobody else’s business. However, gays have sex with so many different
partners (5,6,7) that they increase their risk of getting or
transmitting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Indeed, homosexuals
are considerably more apt to get STDs than are non-homosexuals. (12)
Most who get an STD decide that they will do all in their power not to
infect others. But others – an important minority – decide that they
will make their partners suffer as much as they have. As Mirko Grmek
(13) noted "every historian of disease knows that such an attitude of
vengeance, or at least of recklessness, had contributed in other times
to the spread of tuberculosis and syphilis." Limited evidence suggests
that, compared to heterosexuals, homosexuals are more apt to harm their
sexual partners deliberately. The only comparative study (5,9) on this
issue found that about 1% of male and female heterosexuals compared to
7% of gays and 3% of lesbians admitted to deliberately passing on STDs
that they had acquired.
When the disease is AIDS, the personal and social costs of deliberate
infection are exceptionally high. Several examples of homosexuals who
were deliberate spreaders of AIDS have been documented, (13) but the
most notorious is that of "patient zero," the Canadian flight attendant
who, until his death at age 32, shared his body and infection with 250
men every year. From the late 1970s through the early 1980s he was
personally responsible for at least 40 of the first 248 American cases
of AIDS and told public health officials in San Francisco it "was
nobody else’s business but his own."
There also appears to be a connection between the practice of violent
sex and one’s willingness to deliberately infect someone else. Dividing
our random national sample (7,12) into those with no interest in
homosexual activity (non-H) and those with at least some homosexual
interest (H) – and combining males and females – we found that 4.0% of
the non-Hs vs 21.8% of those with at least some homosexual interest
said that they had participated in sadomasochism (S/M); 7.8% of the
non-Hs admitted to bondage (B/D) vs 27.5% of the Hs. Further, those who
had engaged in violent sex of either type were twice as likely to have
deliberately attempted to infect a partner than those without such
violent experience (see Figure).
In 1992 three London STD clinics reported that almost half of their
homosexual patients who knew they were infected with HIV had then
gotten rectal gonorrhoea. (14) These gays were not permitting their
deadly infection to spoil their sexual fun. By 1993 over 100,000 U.S.
gays had died of AIDS and tens of thousands had died of hepatitis B.
Most of these had been infected, many deliberately or carelessly, by
other homosexuals.
Homosexual Rape
The National Crime Survey (15) reported that about 1 of every 10,000
males over the age of 11 is raped each year (vs 13 of every 10,000
females) – that is, about 7% of rapes are homosexual. In two
jurisdictions, Columbia, SC (16) and Memphis, TN, (17) males accounted
for 5.7% of the victims of rape reported to authorities – in only one
instance was the assailant a woman.
Along with the rise of the gay rights movement, homosexual rape of men
appears to have increased in the past few decades. (5,15,16) Homosexual
rape is twice as common in urban areas where gays congregate than in
suburban or rural areas. (15) It may also be more common where the gay
subculture is accepted: a 1970 study in San Francisco found that 9% of
male heterosexuals and 24% of gays; 2% of female heterosexuals and 11%
of lesbians reported having been homosexually raped. (18) In our 1983
national urban survey (which did not include San Francisco), 1.3% of
heterosexual men vs 12.5% of gay men and 0.6% of heterosexual women vs
8.6% of lesbians reported having been homosexually raped. (5,10)
More alarmingly, between 15% to 40% of statutory rape (child
molestation) involves homosexuality. (19) In one study, 25% of white
gays (18) admitted to sex with boys 16 or younger when they were aged
21 or older.
Rape at any age is violent and emotionally devastating. But it can also
edge victims toward homosexuality. In our national study, almost half
the lesbians said they had been heterosexually raped – perhaps
gravitating to homosexuality because of the experience. Males often
react differently. Thus the Masters and Johnson Institute reported that
a "25-year-old man had had his first sexual experience when he was 13
years old. It was arranged by his lesbian mother with an older gay man.
After that episode, his imagery and interpersonal sexual experience
were exclusively homosexual." (20) Likewise, "Mr. K, age 22, felt that
his change in sexual preference was related to his having been raped by
two men.... After the assault he experienced sexual identity confusion
and began engaging voluntarily in homosexual activity. When he was seen
for evaluation he labeled himself as openly homosexual." (21)
Impact of Violence On The Homosexual Lifespan
A study of 6,714 obituaries (22) in gay newspapers across the U.S.
revealed that 3% of 6,574 gays and 20% of 140 lesbians had died
violently:
• 1.4% of gays and 7% of lesbians were murdered (rates over a hundred
times those of non-gays);
• 0.6% of gays and 5.7% of lesbians committed suicide (rates dozens of
times those of non-gays); and
• 0.6% of gays and 4.3% of lesbians died in motor vehicle accidents
(over 17 times the rate of non-gays)
These events, coupled with various STDs (especially AIDS) gotten from
other gays, resulted in a median age of death of 40 among gays and a
median age of death of 45 among lesbians. In the same study, comparison
samples of married men had a median age of death of 75 and married
women a median age of death of 79. For divorced or single persons the
median age of death was 57 for men and 71 for women.
Conclusion
The ‘hate crimes’ gays complain about are infrequent and seldom involve
more than name-calling or snide remarks. The FBI reported 431 hate
crimes against homosexuals for the U.S. in all of 1991. Only one was
"confirmed" for Washington, D.C. – yet D.C. gay activists claimed 397
incidents! When pressed, they admitted that at least 366 of these
"crimes" consisted of "verbal harassment." (23)
In line with traditional psychiatric opinion, violence goes
hand-in-hand with the ‘gay’ lifestyle. Almost all the exposure by
homosexuals to violence and disease is encountered in the gay
subculture. Most of the murderers in the lifespan study whose sexual
orientation could be determined were also homosexual. While violence
toward homosexuals is deplorable, most violence involving gays is
self-induced (and the gay subculture may export more violence than it
absorbs from without).
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