Feds detail how L.I. hater sent scads of threats to LGBTQ groups

A hateful Long Island homophobe penned dozens of letters over eight years threatening to assault, shoot and bomb LGBTQ people and organizations, writing in one terrifying message that the the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting would “look like a cakewalk,” federal prosecutors said Monday.

Robert Fehring’s alleged targets included participants in the NYC Pride March.

A search of his home in Bayport found photographs of a June 2021 Pride event in East Meadow, L.I., two loaded shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two stun guns, an American flag-patterned machete and a stamped envelope addressed to an attorney involved in LGBTQ causes containing the remains of a dead bird, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.

“As you f——-g scum are preparing to waltz your fruity, freaky f——t asses down the NY parade lanes, we warn you that there will be radio-controlled devices placed at numerous strategic places, and firepower aimed at you from other strategic places. We’ve had enough!!! This will make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” Fehring, 74, wrote in a letter last May, according to the feds.

The message was sent to the executive director of an organization setting up an NYC Pride event. The 2016 shooting at Pulse, a well-known gay nightclub, left 49 people dead and dozens wounded.

Fehring is accused of sending more than 60 terrifying letters since 2013.

In a letter last June, Fehring allegedly threatened the CEO of an LGBTQ-affiliated nonprofit in Sag Harbor, L.I., threatening that the person might be shot if they attended a Pride event in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.

“Better be ready to meet your end if you show up at Eisenhower on Sunday,” Fehring wrote in the letter, the feds claim. “It’s a great place to unload a high-powered rifle bullet from a distance, that can go right through your gay face.”

When agents spoke to Fehring, he admitted he didn’t like gay people, prosecutors said.

After his arrest, Fehring said there was a “sickening overdose of that stuff being shoved down everybody’s face on the paper, on the TV and all over the place, and I’m not a fan of any of the homosexuality, homosexual thing,” according to the feds.

On top of the new criminal allegations, Fehring was accused by a former student at Bellport High School of sexually abusing an underage high school student in the 1970s, according to a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court.

Fehring was a music teacher at Bellport High School at the time, according to the civil suit. Fehring hasn’t submitted a response to that suit, which was filed in October.

Fehring was released into home detention on $100,000 bond after a judge ordered him to stay away from the targets of his alleged homophobic threats.