|
|
WINDY CITY TIMES
|
|---|
|
|
|
Letters: Shooting of Proctor
2005-07-13
|
|
This article shared 2922 times since Wed Jul 13, 2005
|
|
The recent tragic shooting of Daniel Proctor on the 1400 block of West Carmen has received minimal media attention and no substantive comment from either the City or the Chicago Police Department. Have officials failed to notice that Proctor, reportedly a gay man, was shot in the head on Gay Pride weekend in a gay-friendly neighborhood after reportedly leaving a gay bar?
The Proctor shooting is eerily similar to the May, 2003 fatal shooting of Barry Cunnane. Both men were Chicago actors shot in the head while walking on neighborhood sidestreets during early morning hours after leaving Andersonville bars. Neither victim showed signs of robbery or other apparent motive and both cases remain unsolved. The police department earlier suggested that Cunnane was killed by gang members but to date, has offered up neither a suspect, a better motive or further explanation.
It appears police reaction differs according to city-determined priority. A much better police response was exemplified by the shooting incident near the Taste of Chicago only hours before Proctor was shot. ...
Does investigative inattention amount to deliberate indifference? It wouldn't be unreasonable for the gay community to believe that as a group they don't warrant proper police attention. In light of other gay-related incidents, it is difficult for the Chicago Police Department to be seen as progressive and equitable when they collectively fail in their primary duty to the community they're meant to serve and protect.
— Bob Zuley, Chicago |
|
|
|
This article shared 2922 times since Wed Jul 13, 2005
|
| ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKE |
|---|
| 
|  | ELECTIONS 2023 Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson discusses religion, LGBTQ+ issues, holistic approach
2023-03-22
Chicago mayoral candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas seem to have little in common. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, has embraced a more progressive platform that employs everything from a more holistic approach to crime to ...
| 
| | NATIONAL Drag shows, LGBTQ+ honors, Bragman memorial, Fred Karger
2023-03-04
Video below - Dozens of supporters turned out outside the Crazy Aunt Hellen's restaurant in D.C. in anticipation of a drag show's planned protest by the far-right group Proud Boys—but police said members of the far-right, neo-fascist organization didn' ...
| 
| | Theater Review: one in two
2023-03-01
Playwright: Donja R. Love. At: PrideArts at Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway Tickets: 773-857-0222; $35. Runs through March 19 Playwright Donja R. Love stresses that lower case letters should be used for the title of ...
| 
| | Ex-Colts player accused of attacking son and his boyfriend
2023-02-24
Former Indianapolis Colts lineman and radio personality Joseph "Joe" Andrew Staysniak was arrested on Feb. 21 after a domestic incident in which he was accused of assaulting his son and choking his son's boyfriend in the ...
| 
| | ILGA-Europe report: 2022 was the deadliest year for anti-LGBTI violence
2023-02-21
ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association)-Europe's "Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of LGBTI People in Europe and Central Asia"— announced Feb. 20 in Brussels, Belgium—reveals ...
| 
| | New York Times publishes transphobic column one day after an open letter condemning anti-trans coverage, HRC responds
2023-02-16
--From a press release - WASHINGTON— This morning, the New York Times published yet another opinion piece attacking the transgender and non-binary community. The piece, "In Defense of J.K. Rowling" was written by Pamela Paul and was published merely one day ...
| 
| | WORLD Pope Francis, non-binary minor, athlete dies at 35, Taiwan
2023-01-29
Pope Francis made headlines when he told the Associated Press on Jan. 24 that "being homosexual is not a crime," although he also described being gay as sinful, Gay City News noted. The pontiff called on ...
| 
| | NATIONAL Missing student, Utah bill, Atlanta Pride, crime items, Castro bar
2023-01-29
A New York City law student has been missing for weeks—and his brother said his last known location was The Q, a gay bar in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, NBC News reported. Jordan Taylor, 29, a ...
|
| | Equality Illinois responds to violence, murder of Black and Brown trans people on the south side
2023-01-25
--From a press release - Statement by Myles Brady Davis, Director of Communications at Equality Illinois, the state's civil rights organization for LGBTQ+ people, regarding the violences and murders of Black and Brown trans people on the south side of Chicago: ...
|
| | Pope says being gay no crime, cites anti-LGBTQ laws in 70 countries. LGBTQ leaders respond
2023-01-25
--From press releases - (January 25, 2023) — Pope Francis called laws that criminalize same-sex relationships "unjust," stating that "being homosexual is not a crime" in an interview with the Associated Press today. The Pope also called for the Roman ...
| 
| | Rogers Park's R Public House's door destroyed by homophobic vandal
2023-01-18
The lesbian-owned restaurant and bar R Public House, 1508 W. Jarvis Ave., was targeted by a hammer-wielding man yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at about 5:40 p.m. during happy hour on Monday, Jan. 16. Owners (and married couple) ...
|
| | LGBTs nine times more likely than non-LGBTe to be victims of violent hate crimes
2022-12-21
-- From a Williams Institute press release - About one out of 10 violent victimizations against LGBT people are hate crimes, according to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. LGBT people are nine times more likely than non-LGBT ...
| 
| | NATIONAL 'Queer to Stay,' gay pol dies, drag-show attacks, 'Don't Say Gay' lawmaker
2022-12-11
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Showtime announced the 25 recipients of "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative" to support and uplift small businesses that focus on LGBTQ+ people of color, women and the trans+ community ...
| 
| | NATIONAL $1M donation, church departures, Harvey Milk, abortions, Grindr
2022-11-27
In Ohio, Dayton-based insurance company CareSource is donating $1 million to United Church Homes to support the development of a senior living facility at the site of the former Longfellow School that will also aim at ...
|
| | The Northalsted Business Alliance makes statement on Club Q Shooting in Colorado Springs
2022-11-23
-- From a press release - The Northalsted Business Alliance shares its thoughts and prayers with our LGBTQ+ family in Colorado suffering from yet another senseless gun tragedy. We mourn the five lives lost and stand with those injured and traumatized ...
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
 | WORLD German bishops, trans woman's death, Hungary, human-rights event
| | SHOWBIZ 'Black Adam,' Cyndi Lauper, Sondheim, Oscars, OutFest
| | NATIONAL Ritchie Torres, N.J. towns, Karine Jean-Pierre, Tennessee items
| | UpRising Bakery and Cafe could soon close due to revenue losses, ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ harassment
| | Navratilova says she is cancer-free | |
|
|
|
|
