Allen R. Schindler, Jr.
Military Person
1969 – 1992
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Who was Allen R. Schindler, Jr.?
Allen R. Schindler, Jr. was an American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered for being gay. He was killed in a public toilet in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan by shipmate Terry M. Helvey, who acted with the aid of an accomplice, Charles Vins, in what Esquire called a "brutal murder". The case became synonymous with the gays in the military debate that had been brewing in the United States culminating in the "Don't ask, don't tell" bill.
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- Born
- Dec 13, 1969
Chicago Heights - Also known as
- Allen Schindler, Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Oct 27, 1992
Sasebo
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on July 23, 2013
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