I remember being in High School in 1963 go 1965 before I went to a private school for my senior year in Santa Fe, New Mexico I went to a public school in Los Angeles county. And I knew there were a few football players who went out with baseball bats then to maim or kill any gay men or black men or both then on Friday and Saturday nights. Of course, these also were the types of guys that might beat you up or kill you then in school as well. So, even though some knew what they were doing it wasn't wise to say anything about it in those times because often the police were like this too and also the military. So, talking about something like this might get you killed or maimed for life from a variety of different directions then.
My position which was liberal then was that I thought gay men shouldn't be killed because they were gay. This is still my position all these years later now. This doesn't mean I think being gay is a great or desirable thing to be. It's just that I think being killed just because that is how you are is stupid. And also I have met so many gay men that have been very helpful to me and to others as well. I find them some of the most helpful and useful people in any community ever since.
But, before then and still in many parts of the world Gay men are simply thrown off of roofs to end their lives or found dead knifed or shot or beat up all over the world sometimes even here in the U.S.
One of the saddest things for me having been raised by two Christian ministers is often gay men are killed for being a "Blasphemy against God" by extremist Christians then and now.
And my thought is that "The spirit of the law gives life but the letter of the law only kills us all!"
So, my position of Gay men shouldn't be killed still stands. It was a good position then and a better one now that the world has changed so much here in 2019.
By the way I never thought killing anyone of any race was a solution to anything in my life or in anyone's life for that matter. I saw what the Watts Riots did to people in my neighborhood which was mostly white then too. They were up in the hills practicing shooting any black people that came into my suburb. But, I think black people were too smart to leave their areas with so much chaos going on in Watts then with it all burning down.
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