Historic hate crimes: Society and civilization has assigned certain gender roles to everyone, based on the body that they are born with. How we behave at every step of the day, what we wear, who we love: everything is pre-determined, before we are even born, and there is no place for our inner desires.
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That is why, the moment someone deters from such set ideas and normative ways, that person is frowned upon. Be it the body or the mind, if a non-normativity from the set standards is seen in the way a person is born, then that person is likely to be tagged abnormal. Promptly, the society takes upon itself the tedious task of fixing or at least camouflaging the wrong in that person. If the person in question refuses to be untrue to one’s own soul just to please the others, it is then that the others don’t hesitate to resort to even the most brutal ways to curb the true nature of the members of the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual-Intersexual-Queer (LGBTIQ) world. Let us read about some of the most heinous and historic hate crimes on LGBTIQ members in the world.
Ten Heinous Hate Crimes on LGBTIQ Members:
10. The Bystander Effect
On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was returning home to her partner, Mary-Ann Zielonko, when Winston Moseley approached her. The slightly woman ran, but, Moseley caught up. What followed was a series of assaults, stabs and abuse. She died in Mary-Ann’s arms. But, reports on the matter are fuzzy, as many versions narrate how she kept shouting for help, but her neighbours remained unresponsive despite being aware. This view is criticised as inaccurate, since most of their accounts of the incident differ. For instance, that she continued to scream with a punctured lung is debated. What’s undisputed is that she was raped and murdered. The case led to investigation of social psychological phenomenon of diffusion of responsibility, known as bystander effect or Genovese syndrome, which states that the more witnesses there are, the less likely they are to help the victim. Moseley, with a series of murders, is one of the longest serving inmates in New York State.
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