Tag: abuse

The Northern Irish victim was kicked and called an "HIV-ridden bastard." A gay man in Northern Ireland is living in fear after being kicked and called an “HIV-ridden bastard” during a horrific homophobic attack. Dean Wheeler, a 23-year-old retail worker, was attacked earlier this month while walking back home from a night out in Enniskillen, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Prior to the incident, Wheeler heard an unidentified man shouting “queer boy.” https://twitter.com/BelTel/status/987227982220681216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fnorthern-ireland-hate-crime-dean-wheeler%2F04%2F2018%2F “After that, I heard ’faggot’ being shouted and the next thing I...

Sam Blaylock suffered horrendous abuse growing up and now hopes to inspire others I am Sam Blaylock from Portland, Oregon. My mom got pregnant with me as an accident and then both my parents decided to abort me. Thankfully, the abortion failed. It led to me being born two months premature. My dad was extremely abusive to my mother and it only got worse when I was born. When I was around four years old, my parents decided to get divorced and my...

Respondents said they faced more physical or verbal assaults following the announcement of the postal vote than before. The number of assaults against LGBT people doubled during Australia’s equal marriage postal vote, new research has revealed. Over 9,500 LGBT people and allies participated in a survey conducted by the Australia Institute and the National LGBTI Health Alliance to investigate the impact of the postal vote. Preliminary results were released this week, and it found that the vote took a massive toll on...

Giovanni Melton's former foster mom reveals troubled history A father allegedly shot his 14-year-old gay son, with police attributing the killing in part to the boy’s sexual orientation. Henderson police in Nevada say 53-year-old Wendell Melton shot and killed his son Giovanni in the morning of Thursday 2 November. Sonja Jones is Giovanni’s former foster mom and said Wendell always had a thing against his son’s sexuality. She told 3 News: ‘He hated the fact that his son was gay. ‘I’m sure that inside...

Zelimkhan Bakayev was last seen on August 8 in Chechnya. A Russian singer who has been missing since August is now feared to have been detained by authorities and sent to an anti-gay concentration camp in Chechnya. Zelimkhan Bakayev was last seen on August 8 in the Chechen capital Grozny, and his family has been unable to get answers from authorities about happened to him. At a press conference on Monday, which featured a victim of the anti-gay purge in Chechnya giving...

Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten, burned, bitten and starved before his death. A man accused of torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death did so because he through the child was gay, a prosecutor has said. 32-year-old Isauro Aguirre, of Palmdale, California, has been charged with the murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez with a special circumstance of torture. The boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, also faces trial. During opening statements on Monday (October 16), Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor on Jon...

"He called him things like ‘whore of Babylon.'" A Los Angeles man has been convicted of first-degree murder after shooting his gay son and stabbing his wife to death in March 2016. Shehada Issa, 70, originally claimed he killed his son Amir in self-defense after the 29-year-old killed Issa’s wife, Rabihah. Coming home from a trip, he told police, he found Rabihah stabbed to death in the bathroom. Investigating noises, Shehada grabbed his gun and went outside, where Amir allegedly threatened...

Shocking and disturbing! High School football players coerced their teammates into sexual acts, including oral sex, as part of an abusive hazing ritual, alleges a federal lawsuit. At Lake Zurich High School, northwest of Chicago, two young men have been accused of sexual abuse and acts of degradation in the suit filed by two victims. According to reports, coaches and administrative staff ignored the abuse. Furthermore, there is speculation that the intense hazing rituals have persisted for decades. The Chicago Tribune reports: Antonio Romanucci, a Chicago attorney representing...

The Minnesota couple died in an apparent murder-suicide pact after a gay teenager accused them both of abuse Police this week released a report into the circumstances surrounding the murder-suicide of an elementary school teacher and his husband. The bodies of Aric Babbitt, aged 40, and his husband, Matthew Deyo, 36, were found 25 August on Lopez Island beach, Washington. Both died from gunshot wounds. A suicide note was found with their bodies. Police at the time said that both men, from South...

A gay 13-year-old has taken his own life after enduring years of homophobic bullying, both physical and emotional. Tyrone Unsworth of Brisbane, took his own life, his mother said, and that he had suffered through two years of homophobic abuse which pushed him “to the edge”. Among other insults and physical abuse, Unsworth was called a “fairy” and a “gay boy”. She told the Courier Mail: “He was a really feminine male, he loved fashion, he loved make-up and the boys always...

David Cary was fought a nine-year legal battle with the Met. The Metropolitan police have awarded a gay man compensation and offered an apology after admitting that they had failed to properly investigate homophobic harassment claims he had made, the BBC reports. David Cary, 54, was riding his bicycle in 2007 when a neighbour called him a “poof” and a “queer.” He reported the incident, and while the police did initially investigate they took no further action. Cary then sued the police for...

A popular theater director and his partner were the victims of a sneering homophobic rant by a London bus driver who first denied them entrance at the front of the bus and then refused to drive after they entered through a rear door, reports the Evening Standard. According to Omar Okai, he and his boyfriend felt “humiliated” as the innuendo-laden insults were thrown at them by the driver of the 25 bus route. “We put our hands out to get the...

In Scotland, we use the word 'jessy' as an insult. Urban dictionary describes it as follows: "Scottish/Northern English phrase to suggest someone is a coward. (your mate wont ask a girl out) "aww come on, stop being a Jessy" (someone runs away from a fight with you) "Haha, ya big Jessy"" It's also an insult thrown at many gay guys when they're young. We're seen as weak, ineffectual, unable to stand up for ourselves. Is this true? Is it something inherent in the...