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Conn. Man Charged With Threatening Lesbian Sister, Other Relatives

Conn. Man Charged With Threatening Lesbian Sister, Other Relatives

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Gordon Bissonnette of Plainville, Conn., is accused of threatening to kill his mother, his sister, and her wife.

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A man in Plainville, Conn., was arrested Christmas Day after making threats to members of his family, including a threat to kill his sister because she is a lesbian.

Gordon Bissonnette, 46, was arrested after his mother, Clelie, told police he said he'd kill her if she saw her lesbian daughter on Christmas and his brother, Brian, brought the police's attention to hostile voice-mail messages left by Gordon since mid-December, the New Britain Herald reports.

Regarding the sister, Corinne, Gordon Bissonnette said on a recent voice mail, "If she [expletive] with my child again, I will execute her myself. Corinne, if she goes against me, there will be bullets flying. She cannot talk to me. I wanna execute her. I will kill a gay." He also threatened Corinne's wife, saying, "I'll put a bullet in both their heads. If they turn my daughter gay, I'm gonna kill them both. I'm gonna blow their brains out."

Gordon Bissonnette told police he did leave the messages but was drunk at the time and didn't remember what he said, the Herald reports. He also said he planned to set off a smoke bomb at his sister's Christmas celebration, expecting that she and her wife would think it was a gunshot and "freak out."

Police captain Brian Mullins told The Hartford Courant that Gordon Bissonnette does not own a gun and did not attempt to carry out his threats. He is angry and "fearful of the influence members of his family, both gay and straight, are having on his daughter," who is 18, Mullins said.

Bissonnette is charged with second-degree intimidation due to a bias, second-degree threatening, and second-degree harassment, according to both newspaper reports. He is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Bristol January 24. The court has issued orders of protection on behalf of his mother, his brother, his sister, and her wife, stipulating that he have no contact with them.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.