Do I understand correctly from those who saw the film that the PBS St. Augustine documentary omits the first anti-Gay hate crime in North American history?
The murder of a Gay man was ordered in 1566 by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, whose brother-in-law wrote it down.
There was no trial.
It was a murder on orders of Florida's first Governor.
Adelantado Pedro Menendez de Aviles's thugs followed orders to kill "Guillermo," a Gay French interpreter of the Guale Indian language, who Menendez called "a Sodomite and a Lutheran."
"Guillermo" was garroted.
This irrefragable historical fact helped persuade Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. to order the City of St. Augustine to fly 49 Rainbow flags for Gay Pride on our Bridge of Lions and Bayfront June 8-13, 2005.
The University of Florida has omitted this hate crime from its curatorship of the Governor's House museum, too.
Why does UF (and now PBS) airbrush Gay history and anti-Gay hate crimes?
Waiting for an answer:
From: Ed Slavin
To: poppell
Cc: nshaver
Sent: Wed, Dec 20, 2017 10:58 am
Subject: Request No. 2017-709: "Secrets of Spanish Florida" Script
Dear Mr. Poppell:
1. Please send me the script for "Secrets of Spanish Florida."
1. Please send me the script for "Secrets of Spanish Florida."
2. Do I understand correctly that the PBS documentary omits the first anti-Gay hate crime in North American history, on orders of Pedro Menendez in 1566?
3. If so, please explain why, and kindly provide pertinent decision documents.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
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