Comments on: Murder charge filed in Puerto Rico gay teen slaying

By: Gabriel Lopez-Allen

Gabriel Lopez-Allen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:15:41 +0000

Again, another sickening crime against a person because of who they are. Who does things like this to people? Honestly, even if you do not like or even hate someone this action is absolute dishonor to what human beings stand for. I hope that the perpetrator is punished to the fullest extent of the law!

By: JohnM

JohnM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:42 +0000

My sisters and I have suffered depression and many mental orders due to our fathers murder. This past April was a ten year anniversary of his murder. Police have prints but no arrests? I need help.

By: JohnM

JohnM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:43 +0000

This is horrible. My Dad was murdered in PR in April 1999 and the case has gone unsolved. His name is Paul Meroski. It is killing my family that justice has not been served and we feel he was dicriminated against for being gay. Can anyone help with getting Sarano on brd.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:15:41 +0000

HE WAS NOT GAY! I can’t believe 365 Gay reporters cant even report correctly! This should be completely rewritten.
as Autumn so correctly states:

When the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) mainstream media (MSM) can’t get trans related stories right, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with LGB reporters who the lack of competency regarding trans people and issues. Trans people are part of the LGBT community; it’s not that incredibly hard to develop professional relationships with transgender people; not that hard to familiarize oneself with the Associated Press Styleguide, GLAAD Media Guide’s Transgender Glossary, and the old NLGJA Styleguide Supplement.
This is what the Associated Press Styleguide states under the term transgender:

Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.
If that preference is not expressed, use the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals live publicly.

Given the facts of this story as we know them, this is not the story of a gay teen that was killed. This is the story of a TRANS (emphasis mine.) teen who was allegedly brutally murdered — where the confessed killer is claiming a trans panic/gay panic defense for his actions.

In death, the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals lived publicly is she and her, not the implied he and him found in describing the murder victim as a gay.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:20:47 +0000

Killing a teen boy for being gay and then desecrating his corpse by decapitating, dismembering and burning it?
What more proof of hate-motivated crime do you need? And why give him a bond at all no matter how high its monetary price? Just lock him up until trial. Provide him with a good lawyer because this is what he should face if he loses this case:
A mind-numbing life for the rest of his able-bodied days of manual hard labor of nothing but breaking up huge rocks into gravel chunks all day long every day until the day that he is physically unable to labor. And then total isolation to himself in a cell with daily reminders told to him of what he did to that boy with no hope of parole ever.

By: DALIOK

DALIOK — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:34 +0000

WE WON’T FORGET!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZmXTxeDPY
VIDEOS REMEMBERING JORGE STEVEN LOPEZ

http://www.youtube.com/daliok23

By: michaelnDallas

michaelnDallas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:15:08 +0000

Did he not say he became enraged when he found out the woman he thought he solicited, was a man?