To Be Gay With You

This week's gruesome and brutal murder of a gay 19-year-old in
Puerto Rico, George Jorge Mercado (pictured), is the latest horrifying reminder that violence against LGBT people is on the
rise worldwide. Is there any consensus on why this is happening? Conventional
wisdom says that the growth of the international queer movement, pushing
visibility and civil rights, has intensified the backlash, but the sheer
dehumanizing ugliness of the attack in Puerto Rico—which makes Matthew Shepard's...