{"id":96615,"date":"2019-09-15T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-of-investigative-negligence\/"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:26:03","slug":"op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-of-investigative-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-of-investigative-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Striking Back Over Allegations of Investigative Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Op-Ed: Striking Back Over Allegations of Investigative Negligence<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sites\/advocate.com\/files\/2019\/09\/10\/courtesy-robert-l.-camina750x422.jpg\" alt=\"courtesy-robert-l.-camina750x422.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Defending my decision to name Larry Frost one of the unidentified victims of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire, the largest mass killing of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people prior to the Pulse massacre.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2019\/9\/15\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-investigative-negligence\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2019\/9\/15\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-investigative-negligence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed: Striking Back Over Allegations of Investigative Negligence Defending my decision to name Larry Frost one of the unidentified victims of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire, the largest mass killing of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people prior to the Pulse massacre. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2019\/9\/15\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-investigative-negligence\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2019\/9\/15\/op-ed-striking-back-over-allegations-investigative-negligence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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