Montana man sentenced to 18 years for shooting to rid town of LGBTQ residents

 

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Montana man sentenced to 18 years for shooting to rid town of LGBTQ residents

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A handcuffed suspect waits at the magistrates court.© (photo credit: YOSSI ZAMIR/FLASH90)

AMontana man was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for firing an assault rifle into a woman's home and trying to rid a town of LGBTQ residents.

John Howald, 46, of Basin, Montana, was convicted of the hate crime by a federal jury in February, the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the sentence handed down by Chief US District Judge Brian Morris.

After firing at the residence, he walked through Basin - a community of about 200 people - intending to target others he perceived as LGBTQ, it said. The town is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Butte, Montana.

Howald's 'anti-LGBTQ' mission

Residents, who heard about Howald's self-described anti-LGBTQ mission, were able to restrain him until law enforcement officers arrested him, the department said.

"Howald set out to rid the town of all LGBTQI+ members by killing them," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's civil rights division.

People take part in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally ''VIII St.Petersburg Pride'' in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. (credit: REUTERS/ANTON VAGANOV)© Provided by The Jerusalem Post

People take part in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally ''VIII St.Petersburg Pride'' in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. (credit: REUTERS/ANTON VAGANOV)

 

Howald was armed with two assault rifles, a hunting rifle, two pistols and multiple high-capacity magazines that were taped together to speed reloading, the statement said.

Howald's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.

Earlier this month, the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the United States, declared its first national state of emergency, citing the proliferation of anti-LGBTQ legislation in statehouses across the country.

President Joe Biden has also warned about "ugly" attacks from "hysterical" people who are targeting LGBTQ Americans.

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■ LGBT - Wikipedia

A six-band rainbow flag representing the LGBT community

 

LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender." In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for certain sexualities and gender identities.[1]

The term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay (or gay and lesbian) in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.[2] When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.[3][4]

It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.[5] To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, LGBTQ, adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity.[6] The initialisms LGBT or GLBT are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include.[7]

LGBT는 성소수자 중 레즈비언(Lesbian), 게이(Gay), 양성애자(Bisexual), 트랜스젠더(Transgender)를 합하여 부르는 단어다. 퀴어(Queer)에 비해 논쟁이 덜한 용어로 알려져 있다.[출처 필요]

LGBTAIQ라는 용어는 본디 LGBT에서 무성애자(Asexual), 간성(Intersex), 아직 자신의 성정체성, 성적 지향에 의문을 품은 사람(Questioner)을 더한 것이다. 인도 등 동남아시아에서는 히즈라를 H로 표기하여 포함하기도 한다.

LGBTAIQOC는 위 용어에 범성애자(opensexual. pansexual이라고도 한다)와 크로스드레서(crossdresser)를 추가한 용어다.