Gay Bashers

Covering their faces with T-shirts in an attempt conceal
their identities, two murder suspects are led to jail; one looks directly at Stephen
Shames’s camera, which was as close to the scene as detectives would allow. On
July 4, 1991, these two young men, along with eight others, drove from the
Woodlands to Montrose (a gay-friendly Houston neighborhood), where they beat and
stabbed 27-year-old Paul Broussard to death. Outraged by this hate crime and a
lack of public response to it, gay-rights advocates marched in the streets for
days in an attempt to draw attention to Broussard’s murder.