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New York- What makes some men want to kill gay people? This question gets explored in this month's documentary on Public Broadcasting's "POV." series. In
Licensed to Kill, documentarian Arthur Dong, smarting
from an attack at the hands of some gay-bashing youth in San Francisco, takes a tour of American penitentiaries to interview men convicted of killing homosexuals for being that way. "I believe I was a very confused person,"
says Minnesotan Jay Johnson, serving a life sentence for killing two gay men. "I have gay preferences, but I don't really embrace the gay community, and I'm religiously hostile to them. I mean there's a lot of contradictions
there." You can say that again, sister! Dong also spoke with Texas murderer Donald Aldrich, who took a young man he believed to be gay out to a gravel pit and shot him nine times. "Meeting the defendant face-to-face during a
two-week stretch, I saw that he wasn't this person with horns," Dong relates. "We would rather call these men who go on gay-bashing sprees 'monsters' because it's easier to categorize them as evil, but we can't deny that
these people are human beings." Licensed to
Kill airs around the US on PBS on Tuesday, June 23; check local listings.
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