You each have a fine point, and well expressed. Thank you.

To do otherwise is to give legitimacy to the imperialism of the American looter class.

@jack, straight trans people don’t transition to continue to have relations with gay people… They actually consider themselves to be straight and therefore go after straight partners… That being said, if the person is not physicaly matching their presentation then yes caution is high priority. Most straight men would not want to undress a girl to find a penis, that is just reality. SO be careful people, but don’t stop being who you are..

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/mother-of-slain-teen-jorge-steven-lopez-mercado-speaks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Daily++%23gay+news%29

What you are doing is called “blaming the victim”. Are you sure that is an attitude you want to develop?

Gay panic is going to be when this puke lands in prison and is the new piece of arse on the cell block.

Thank you so much for this link. I read every word and saw all the footage.

At the end of her article, Barbara J. Rosa Figueroa says:

“…a white ribbon as a sign of the anger felt by the loss of George Steven, emblem also hang next Wednesday when starting at 6:00 pm participate in a vigil that will leave the Justice Department to the Peace Pavilion in the Parque Luis Munoz Rivera in San Juan. The message at the event will be one clear and forceful: no more hate crime, living diversity.”

I hope thousands of people show up, especially the drag queens like the ones who had the balls to trigger the historic Stonewall Riots in New York City in June ’69. And let’s not forget Harvey Milk.

To me, this vigil can be the event that will tell the “world” where to get off, and affirm our equal civil rights.

Enough is enough!!

Basta! Basta! And that goes especially to the Roman Catholic Church whose pathological sexual theology is causing nothing but misery to countless millions of human beings while B16 struts around in drag.

http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html

I like porn as much as the next guy, but there’s a big difference between gay news and gay trivia.

I’m not it the Island right now but I have been reading every news article from the Island, surprisingly a couple of papers are following this case very closely (Primera Hora and El Vocero) to the dislike of many…not the case of the main paper (El Nuevo Día). The Gay Right Groups in PR are trying to get as much attention to the case as they can and I know that authorities would be more careful if they know people from outside the Island are paying attention, no word from any government official and the FBI seems way to shy when expressing opinions. I hope human rights groups in the USA and in the rest of the world keep and eye on this case. I’m surprise this case hasn’t get much attention in the US news, this could be the first case to be treated as a Hate Crime under the new law president Obama signed last month. A lot of information and support can also be found in facebook @ “Jorge Steven López – End Hate Crimes”. Dorianramirez@comcast.net

And I thought I was upset! Good for you and Bravo!

Yes, the UN has to be taken seriously; it simply cannot be ignored if we want a better world, and I do.

You seem to be living on the island. Please keep us informed. Give us an e-mail address where we can write and support you.

The ugly truth is that Puerto Rican society, like US Society, is infested with bigot cults and with police, judges and politicians who cater to them and they don’t worry about what he that.

They worry about how to get the killer off. One cop already exonerated the murder by saying that people ‘like that’ should expect to be treated ‘like that’. That will make trying and punishing his murderer much more difficult.

Another important question is whether or not leaders of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party and political leaders in the US like Obama and McCain denounce the murder and the use of the anti-GLBT ‘gay panic’ defense.

Given that many in Puerto Rico think that it’s a colonial possession of the US we want to be careful about demanding the application of US laws there.

The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and resolutions of the UN and world judicial groups cover the question of our rights pretty well, at least on paper.

GLBT folks and our allies in the US can help by demanding that the authorities there not permit the use of the ‘gay panic’. We should also demand that the roman catholic cult, whose bigotry promotes violence, be fined the equivalent of $100 million dollars a year for the next 10 years to compensate his family, fund anti-violence and anti-bigotry programs, fund a massive distribution of condoms and fund programs to help GLBT youth who end up being forced out of their homes or into prostitution.

That’s what a decent government would do.