Former Army Seargeant Tony Hunter was beaten to death in 2008 outside Be Bar in Washington, D. Lance Neve was beaten unconscious in 2008 outside Snuggery’s Bar in Spencerport, New York by Jesse D. In 2009, three cousins stormed Robert’s Lafitte in Galveston with rocks and chunks of concrete, sending two men to the hospital. In 2013, nine gay men were assaulted during a four-month period outside Cocktails Cleveland. history, but it is not an aberration: the crime blotters of the gay press have always been punctuated by attacks on patrons at gay bars. The massacre at Pulse’s nightclub is the worst mass shooting in U.S. Gay bars have always been sites of danger, Terrorists and gay bashers have long used gay bars to find LGBTQ people- only last weekend, my boyfriend and I had “faggots” shouted at us from a speeding car outside a Columbus, Ohio gay bar.
