Editing Goth subculture (section)

====School shootings====
In the weeks following the 1999 [[Columbine High School massacre]], media reports about the teen gunmen, [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]], portrayed them as part of a gothic cult. An increased suspicion of goth subculture subsequently manifested in the media.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Carey |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/01/us/terror-littleton-shunned-for-those-who-dress-differently-increase-being-viewed.html |title=For Those Who Dress Differently, an Increase in Being Viewed as Abnormal |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 May 1999 |access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref> This led to a [[moral panic]] over teen involvement in goth subculture and a number of other activities, such as violent video games.<ref name=" www.salon.comt">{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/23/gamers/index.html |title=Doom, Quake and mass murder |access-date=24 August 2008 |author=Janelle Brown |date=23 April 1999 |work=Salon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919092143/https://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/23/gamers/index.html |archive-date=19 September 2008}}</ref> Harris and Klebold had initially been thought to be members of "The Trenchcoat Mafia", an informal club within Columbine High School. Later, such characterizations were considered incorrect.<ref name=Salon>{{cite news |last=Cullen |first=Dave |url=http://www.salon.com/1999/09/23/columbine_4/ |title=Inside the Columbine High investigation |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date=23 September 1999 |access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref>

Media reported that the gunman in the 2006 [[Dawson College shooting]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Kimveer Singh Gill]], was interested in goth subculture.<ref name="side-line_Gill">14 September 2006. [http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=17308_0_2_0_C Shooting by Canadian trench coat killer affects industrial / goth scene] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219040256/http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=17308_0_2_0_C |date=19 February 2013 }} Side-line.com. Retrieved on 13 March 2007.</ref> Gill's self-professed love of Goth culture was the topic of media interest, and it was widely reported that the word "Goth", in Gill's writings, was a reference to the alternative [[industrial music|industrial]] and goth subculture rather than a reference to [[gothic rock]] music.<ref name="side-line_Gill"/> Gill, who committed [[suicide]] after the attack, wrote in his online journal: "I'm so sick of hearing about jocks and preps making life hard for the goths and others who look different, or are different".<ref>{{cite news|title=Chronologie d'un folie (Kimveer's online Journal)|newspaper=[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]|date=2006-09-15|url=http://techno.lapresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200609/15/01-13680-kimveer-gill-chronologie-dune-folie.php|access-date=2016-07-27|archive-date=11 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011190138/http://techno.lapresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200609/15/01-13680-kimveer-gill-chronologie-dune-folie.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> Gill described himself in his profile on Vampirefreaks.com as "Trench{{nbsp}}[...] the [[Personifications of death|Angel of Death]]" and he stated that "Metal and Goth kick ass".<ref name="cbc.ca">[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal-gunman-called-himself-angel-of-death-1.575133 CBC News: Montreal gunman called himself 'angel of death']</ref> An image gallery on Gill's Vampirefreaks.com blog had photos of him pointing a gun at the camera or wearing a long black trench coat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/features/dawsonshooting/story.html?id=689b60e6-7ded-447c-b9b9-3d6ff521107b&k=89135|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312010255/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/features/dawsonshooting/story.html?id=689b60e6-7ded-447c-b9b9-3d6ff521107b&k=89135|url-status=dead|title=canada.com|archivedate=12 March 2007}}</ref>

[[Mick Mercer]] stated that Gill was "not a Goth. Never a Goth. The bands he listed as his chosen form of ear-bashing were relentlessly [[heavy metal music|metal]] and standard [[grunge]], [[Rock music|rock]] and [[goth metal]], with some [[Industrial music|industrial]] presence". Mercer stated that "Kimveer Gill listened to metal", "He had nothing whatsoever to do with Goth" and further commented "I realise that like many [[wikt:neophyte|Neos]] [neophyte], Kimveer Gill may even have believed he somehow was a Goth, because they're [Neophytes] only really noted for spectacularly missing the point".<ref>Mick Mercer [http://mickmercer.liejournal.com/672571.html Mick Mercer talks about Kimveer Gill]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} mickmercer.livejournal.com</ref>