Man Who Made Terror Threats Against Florida Gay Bars Arrested, Charged with Federal Crime

Police have arrested Craig Jungwirth, the South Florida man who threatened a Labor Day weekend Orlando-style massacre at gay bars in Wilton Manors, Florida. Jungwirth was arrested Saturday for driving on a suspended license, but now faces a federal charge, the Sun-Sentinel reports:

Craig Allen Jungwirth, 50, is accused of violating a law of interstate commerce when in Aug. 30 Facebook posts he allegedly mentioned the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando and made threats planned for Labor Day weekend in the Wilton Manors area.

Jungwirth was arrested Saturday by the Florida Highway Patrol in Osceola County on an unrelated charge of driving on a suspended license, said Orlando Police Lt. Richard Ruth.

The affidavit released by the FBI Sunday details the grounds for Jungwirth’s arrest on a federal charge that prohibits sending “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”

RELATED: Police Investigating Orlando-Style Threat to Gay Bars in Wilton Manors, Florida on Labor Day Weekend

Jungwirth had left this message on the page of a Facebook user last week, threatening the attack:

My events are selling out cause you faggots are total patsies. None of you deserve to live. If you losers thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait till you see what I’m planning for Labor Day.

You can’t never catch a genius from MIT and since you faggots aren’t dying from AIDS anymore, I have a better solution to exterminate you losers. [SNIP]

I’m gonna be killing you fags faster than the cops kill ni**ers. It’s time to clean up Wilton Manors from all you AIDS infested losers.

More details of the affadavit released by the FBI were reported by 7News Miami:

The FBI has taken over Jungwirth’s case and according to a federal complaint, Jungwirth has been reported to the police before. The federal complaint states, “multiple complaints for stalking and harassing behavior were documented, as well as incidents of sabotage, vandalism, and trespassing.”

The federal complaint also states an FBI agent interviewed the owner and general manager of a Wilton Manors nightclub, and both individuals stated they had interactions with with Jungwirth and he had previously acted in an aggressive manner.

The federal complaint goes on to detail an interview with one of the individuals who contacted Wilton Manors Police in regards of the Facebook posts. The complainant stated they have filed multiple reports against Jungwirth — one that resulted in a restraining order against him.

According to the federal complaint, the complainant also told officials in the past several months, Jungwirth sent them thousands of threatening text messages, Facebook messages and phone calls — many times with Jungwirth stating, “I’m going to get you.”

If convicted, Jungwirth could face up to five years in prison, a fine, or both. Jungwirth is expected in federal court in Orlando on Tuesday.

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10 Cutting-Edge Features Of The iPhone 7 We Simply Need

Although Apple has been highly secretive about what new conveniences the iPhone 7 will offer, rumor has it the upcoming model will be studded with several exciting new features, and publications are scrambling to figure out just what they are.

On the heels of the projected product launch (September 16), here are the top 10 game-changing features we’d most like to see:

1. Face recognition, followed by fierce read

2. “Vibrate” now equipped with three settings: “Easy Does It,” “There You Go,” “E.R.”

3. Watersport-proof design

4. Charges by inserting USB Cord into unusually strong Flirtini

5. Flummoxed Bea Arthur hologram shakes you awake each morning

6. Slammed twice against your hip, it becomes a tambourine

7. Siri replaced with SRSLY (bitchy gay P.A.) and Surly (angry dyke P.A.)

8. Super app that combines all dating apps into one to avoid the feeling of desperation that comes with rapidly switching between grindr, scruff and tinder at 2am

9. A side-facing camera for perfectly capturing side-eye

10. “Apple slay” — it’s like apple pay, but for tipping drag queens

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Pietro Boselli In Bed, A Poodle Who Loves The B-52s, “Moulin Rouge” Hits The Stage

This just in: Model/mathematician Pietro Boselli goes to the gym — hence, this new cover story in Men’s Health España.

What happens when your straight friend starts acting gayer than you? People point fingers. And then mayonnaise sprays everywhere.

Here’s a spot-on parody of CNN’s coverage, and a full-throttle rap attack to boot:

According to Playbill, Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” is becoming a stage musical. Hit it!

A pet groomer gets jiggy with a fluffy poodle client to the sound of The B-52’s “Love Shack.” Tin-Tin roof rusted..!?

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Never Dated A Deaf Guy? Man, You’re Missing Out!

Meet Dickie Hearts. He’s a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, an avid hiker, biker and weight-lifter, and a total comic book/super hero geek. Oh, and he’s also deaf.

“I face a lot of interesting challenges,” he tells Queerty in an exclusive interview. “At times, I do feel invisible, which can be frustrating. At the same time, it drives me more and gives me a stronger voice (or hands) as an actor-filmmaker.”

Related: Every Other Wednesday, You Can Learn ASL With A Shirtless Nyle DiMarco

Hearts is a busy guy. He just finished shooting a guest spot on a show. He’s also hard at work on a pitch for a new web series. All that is in addition to regularly going on auditions, taking acting classes, and working on short film projects.

Luckily, he had a few minutes to chat with us about his experiences as a gay deaf man of color, the L.A. dating scene, and whether he prefers Grindr or Scruff. Check out what he had to say…

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What’s It Like To Discover Your Husband Is Homosexual? Three Women Share Their Experiences

What’s it like to discover your husband is gay? Three women from three different generations recently shared their stories with The Huffington Post.

Susan is 51 years old. She says she originally thought her husband of 20 years had grown distant because he was having an affair with a woman, only to discover he was actually gay.

“I’d heard him talking on the phone to someone about dancing at a bar, and then somehow I figured out he was speaking to a man,” she recalls. “One night on vacation we were drinking probably a little too much and I asked him about it, his response to me was ‘I’ve always found men attractive.’”

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After sobering up, her husband refused to talk about his homosexual desires again and for years Susan quietly agonized over it. Then last year, she finally confronted him about it.

“I got the courage to ask the question, ‘Did you know before you married me that you were gay?’ and he answered yes,” she says. “There was a huge part of me that was angry and hated him, but at the same time there was just as huge a part of me that felt sad for him.”

The couple split up. Susan says still working on trying to have a civil relationship with her husband for the sake of their kids.

“I tell my children, in a perfect world, we could all spend holidays together, I’m just not 100 percent there yet,” she says.

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Amity is 87 years old. She and her husband were married for decades and had two children together. Everything, she says, was “wonderful” until the day he checked into the hospital for a minor surgery.

“I went to visit him while he was under influence of anesthesia,” she recalls. “He said, ‘I have something to tell you. I’m gay.’ I burst out laughing and said, ‘Are we ever in a soap opera?’”

Amity’s husband explained that he been with a man before marrying her, but his Catholic upbringing prevented him from living his truth. After absorbing the news, she began to question whether she was somehow to blame.

“Wasn’t I sexy enough? Didn’t I know the right lovemaking technique? You just wonder, ‘If my life has been involved in someone else’s lie, then who am I? My whole belief system went askew. It was rather obvious, it was like a prison for him.”

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The story then takes a very sad turn.

“One day he told me, ‘I don’t think I can go on anymore.’ I said, ‘Of course you can!’ The next day he took his own life,” she recalls. “I think he was depressed because [for] his whole life he wasn’t able to be himself.”

Finally, there’s Judith, who is in her 70’s. She knew her husband, Dick, confessed to her that he was gay before they ever married, but that she didn’t believe him. She asked him to get therapy, which he did.

“I was so drawn to him,” she says, “my soulmate. … He asked me to marry him and we got married. … I didn’t know that he was suffering. I didn’t know that he was thinking about men or fantasizing. We just didn’t speak about it.”

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She says the marriage was “rocky,” but that they never talked about elephant in the room. Eventually, they had a daughter together then split up. Judith remarried, but always kept in close touch with Dick.

“He was the most important person in my life,” she recalls. “It was never a problem with my husband until Dick died in 1986 from AIDS. My husband was surprised by my grief. I’ve never bonded with anyone that way. My whole youth and my young enthusiasm were bound with him.”

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Hey Commenters: In Your Estimation, What Stories Actually DO Constitute “Gay News”?

Despite the increasingly concerned advice of friends and therapists, we actually do read the comments here at Queerty. (Yes, we drink.) And while there’s never any shortage of food for thought or ammunition for our ever-sagging self-esteem, there is one comment that we see all the time, and frankly, we want to know why.

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The comment we see most often is along these lines: “How is this LGBTQ News?” (a.k.a. “How is this gay news?”; “This is newsworthy?”; “This is gay news, how?”, etc.)

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In case you don’t know what we mean, here are a few examples:

James Franco Hazes Nick Jonas In New Way-Gay Frat Flick:

This Is How Steve Grand Pumps It Up (At The Gym):

PHOTOS: Meet The Hunks Of ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 23:

Coming Soon: The Charlie Sheen Gay Sex Tape You Never Wanted To See:

A Coven Of Queer Witches Have Placed A Hex On Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli:

From The Depths Of The ’80s Comes “Gay Monopoly,” A Forgotten Board Game Gem:

California Love Affair With Summer Stripes:

Gay Adult Film Performer Dimitri Kane Dead At 20:

Michael Shea’s Steamy Affair With 2(X)IST:

Fox News’ Shepard Smith Hooks Up With 26-Year-Old Production Assistant:

ESPN’s Israel Gutierrez Comes Out Publicly, Announces He’s Getting Married:

Instagram’s Favorite Gay Dads Break Up, Delete Photos:

We could go on. We really could.

So our question is this: What, in your opinion, does constitute “gay news”? And, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t?

Sound off in the comments below. We read them.

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