Gay Veteran In Critical Condition From Burn Attack

[theHandpuppet]

The Advocate
Gay Veteran In Critical Condition From Burn Attack
A man is in police custody after inflicting life-threatening burns upon a gay man in Greensboro, N.C., over the weekend.
BY Michelle Garcia
November 12 2014

A gay veteran in North Carolina is in critical condition after being attacked November 9 by a man who allegedly intended to kill a gay man that evening.

Garry Joseph Gupton, of Greensboro, N.C., is being held by police for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill, and his bail has been set for $150,000 QNotes reports.

Gupton reportedly met the victim, Stephen Patrick White, at local bar Chemistry Nightclub the evening of November 8. Hours later, the two are reported to have gone to a room at The Battleground Inn, where White was found naked, robbed, beaten, and intensely injured from fire when authorities responded to a fire alarm and a 911 call from the hotel regarding a screaming man at 4:30 a.m. Sunday...

...At press time, none of the reporting on the attack suggested any intent to investigate the assault as a hate crime. In fact, as the National LGBTQ Task Force notes, North Carolina's hate crimes legislation does not protect victims attacked on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity....

MORE at http://www.advocate.com/crime/2014/11/12/gay-veteran-critical-condition-burn-attack

[shenmue]

1. :(

Evil.

[nightscanner59]

2. That is just ungodly brutal.

As a victim of an anti-gay hate crime myself, it wasn't only the injuries that I sustained but the cold insensitivity of some "good christians" towards me afterwards that was surely enough to show their true colors.
I wish the link included an address I'd send a get-well card or other support.