Robert, I do think that every major GLBT blog is now covering this story. And I have read quite a bit of outrage at the comments of the police investigator.

However, I do not hear "our major organizations" saying a word about this. These same organizations were mighty quick to speak up about Matthew Sheperd, though.

This is a horrific story. I didn't hear anything about this until late last night. This is terrible. Hopefully your focus will generate a significant amount of attention for this. Thanks for sharing with us!

UPDATES ON THE STORY:

Late last night/early this morning I was reviewing the news and there was a Spanish media report that

1) The FBI is now monitoring the investigation

2) The principal investigator has been removed
and his actual quote was worse:
"Este tipo de personas cuando se meten a esto y salen a la calle saben que esto les puede pasar."

"These type of of people that get into this and go out in to the street know that this can happen."

3) As of late last night, a suspect was identified. The Spanish story indicated that the suspect may have been known by Jorge's friends and that he may have offered Jorge money for sex. As of this morning LGBTQ blogs and Spanish media indicate a suspect has been arrested. Some report his age to be 26 or 28.

More updates will be posted as they become available...

Fox News is the first major news outlet to post the story from an AP news wire...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575394,00.html

Faux News? Well we have to give them props for at least breaking the ice. And so far they have done so without sensational reports of the victim or to minimize the horror of this crime.

It is my hope that GLAAD will begin monitoring the media to ensure the reports remain clean.

Still no word from our "leaders."

http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/policia/noticias/arrestan_sospechoso_de_aparente_crimen_de_odio_por_homofobia/344803

Spanish media reports from Puerto Rico indicate that the Police leadership have defended the investigator's right to make homophobic comments and/or have stated that his comments were taken out of context.

There are also indications Puerto Rico has never prosecuted an sexual orientation hate crime before.

Thanks, I have been wanting more info on this since I got an email about it early this morning.

Frequently in A & U Magazine, and also in Bilerico recently, I've written about the horrible problems facing people with HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico -- problems that PR activists like Jose Colon and Anselmo Fonseca and their organization Pacientes de SIDA pro Politica Sana have been fighting.

Due to lack of U.S. government oversight, the corruption, fraud and misspending around AIDS funding and the quality of AIDS services are much worse than in the U.S. Probably thousands of Puerto Ricans have died because they couldn't get services or drugs. It took almost superhuman efforts by PSPS to get some of these crimes prosecuted by the feds --and even then, the U.S. media paid little attention.

So why is anybody surprised that the horrible hate crime against this Puerto Rican gay teen has been mostly ignored on the mainland? The fact is, not many Americans give a hell what happens in Puerto Rico.

And that includes quite a few LGBT Americans and many in the LGBT media, who have paid little attention to the ongoing crimes against people with HIV/AIDS in PR because it embarrasses them to admit that the AIDS establishment could be anything less than perfect and 100 percent humanitarian.

Robert Olivarez is right -- if our leaders don't speak up now, we can't call ourselves a "community." But there needs to be a broader, deeper awakening as well, so that U.S. government and U.S. citizens resonate to Puerto Rican needs, events and trends in the same way that they resonate to happenings here on the mainland.