Hate crimes committed against gay family show how intolerance for sexual diversity can lead to assassinate Murkier.

Hate crimes committed against gay family show how intolerance for sexual diversity can lead to assassinate Murkier, however, are stories of gay the community who kill: How might larger antigay conditions shape their violence? In 1986 journalist Dan Siminoski wrote an in-depth Advocate article about Robert Rosenkrantz, a gay teenager who killed another male child who had exposed his homosexuality.

The basic facts were undisputed: Rosenkrantz, 18 and another lad had been at the family beach house when Rosenkrantz's younger brother and his friend Steve Redman break suddenly in. The two taunted the young gay men and later told Rosenkrantz's father that they had caught the lads "with their pants down." A not many days later, on June 28 1985 Rosenkrantz waited for four hours outside Redman's house. When Redman appeared, he refused to take back his story, calling Rosenkrantz a "fucking faggot." Rosenkrantz then missile Rodman 10 times with an Uzi.

Rosenkrantz was convicted of second-degree massacre and sentenced to 17 years to life. He is publicly incarcerated at a California state prison in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

In a note to the judge at sentencing, Rosenkrantz wrote "Steve could not deal with a hatred [of homosexuality] which all moreover consumed him.... My inability to deal with myself, to face up to the reality of my identity, and my failure to administration myself in a rational way after the involuntary disclosure of my unrevealed all combined to [cause his] death."

Find this 1986 Advocate guard story on Robert Rosenkrantz in its entirety at going to www.advocate.com

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