Tag: assault

One man is suffering memory lapses from the attack A gay couple in Austin, Texas said a group of men followed them over the weekend before attacking them and landing them in the hospital. Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry were out Friday (18 January) night celebrating a friend’s birthday. With their group of friends, they went to several bars over the course of the night. According to local news station KXAN, the couple only had a couple drinks so they would be...

The verdict for the final man attached to a Hasidic gang attack against a gay man has been overturned because of changing laws concerning forensics and lack of other evidence. On December 1, 2013, Taj Patterson, then 22, was walking home through the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn after leaving a party and separating from his friends. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Patterson was then attacked by a group of men. Patterson was bruised and bloodied by the end of the attack....

Well, this is alarming… 25-year-old Geoffrey Tracy is a personal trainer, competitive bodybuilder, and aspiring fitness model. This week, he admitted to stabbing 50-year-old roommate Gregory Kanczes 16 times after he says Kanczes “tried to make moves” on him, the NY Post reports. The attack happened last month, shortly after Tracy moved to New York. He was staying at Kanczes’ apartment in Hell’s Kitchen after a gay strip club owner agreed to fly him out from California. https://www.instagram.com/p/BmcLUXLAFoE/?utm_source=ig_embed Tracy told police, “The guy...

Hate crime charges have now been filed against the four men over last month’s incident Four men who assaulted and allegedly used anti-gay slurs at two men following last month’s Miami Pride festival face a potential maximum of 30 years in jail each. Prosecutors have added hate-crime charges to the aggravated battery charges the four were already facing. If found guilty, this raises the maximum jail time from 15 years to 30 years and takes the charge from second-degree to first-degree felony. Rene...

After a bartender in Orange County ordered the trio removed, the bouncer violently threw them onto the street. Three California men claim they were victims of a “gay bashing” at a Newport Beach restaurant earlier this month, when a bartender used a homophobic slur and a security guard physically threw them to the ground before shoving them out the door. Angel Bonilla, Colton Moyer, and Clement Serafin filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court on Monday, claiming that, on April...

"They almost killed this guy, literally," said one witness who tried to stop the attack. Police are searching for four young men accused of assaulting a gay couple that was holding hands during Miami Beach’s Gay Pride parade. Security cameras captured the unnamed suspects, one wearing a Florida International University T-shirt, walking up to a bathroom on Ocean Drive and Sixth Street at about 7:30pm on Sunday evening. As Rene Chalarca and Dmitry Logunov walked out, they were immediately beset...

Bullied Boy Is Now An Honorary Avenger! Please excuse me as I wipe all the tears from my face!! Bullying hits home for me on so many levels. I was in a glass closet my whole life and the other children’s fear of flamboyancy caused them to be cruel to me during my youth. Some of the comments from my past still haunt me today, but now I laugh at them and can only move forward in my fantastic life....

Two 16-year-olds arrested after teen in London is strangled and forced to apologize for being gay Police in London say that they have arrested two 16-year-old boys following an assault on a gay 19-year-old on a tube train on the Jubilee Line. The incident happened 21 October. The victim was wearing fancy dress and travelling with friends to an event. The altercation occurred on a westbound Jubilee Line tube train between West Ham and North Greenwich stations. The assailants boarded the train at...

Attackers caught the assault on video A teen was stripped of his clothes, possessions and was then beaten for being gay. The 17-year-old was lured to the area in Muskegon Heights, Michigan where he was accosted by another young man. Suspect 18-year-old Trevon Godbolt was arrested yesterday and will be arraigned today (8 November). Teen filmed as he was stripped, beaten and robbed The assault was captured in a horrific and graphic video, which we will not be publishing to protect the victim, and...

A man attending Sunday’s Equality March in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was allegedly assaulted by an anti-LGBTQ protester who showed up with an offensive sign and refused to leave. Tara Stark, an attendant at the march and volunteer at the LGBT Center of Central PA, told the York Dispatch that the man, whose sign read in part, “3rd world refugees brought drug resistant AIDS to the US last year,” stood on the steps of the state Capitol building near LGBTQ rights demonstrators. A...

Jasper and Ronnie Vernes-Sewratan were brutalized last Sunday, reportedly because they were holding hands in public. Thousands of Dutch men walked hand-in-hand this week, after Jasper Vernes-Sewratan and Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes were attacked by five youths for holding hands in Arnhem last Sunday. But now one of the suspects claims their sexual orientation is “irrelevant” to the case: The unnamed youth maintains he was provoked—that one of the couple threw the first punch. He also denied using a bolt-cutter in the attack,...

Terrible! A gay couple says they were assaulted in Key West by an apparent Donald Trump supporter. Kevin Seymour and Kevin Paul Taylor said they were followed by a man riding on a scooter, early Thursday. According to the couple, the man called them, “faggots and a slew of other anti-gay remarks.” After striking the rear tire of Seymour’s bike (which knocked him to the ground), the attacker said: “I bet you faggots voted for that bitch Hillary.  “Well, you live in Trump country now.” When Seymour indicated that he...

A Papa John’s employee in Botwelll Lane, Hayes, Middesex became so enraged at the sight of two gay men hugging inside the pizza restaurant that he began verbally assaulting them, calling one customer a “gay bastard” as they were waiting for their food. The Mirror reports the men, who don’t want to be named for “fear of reprisals,” managed to videotape the incident (which you can watch below.) Wearing a Papa John’s T-shirt, the employee also asks one of the men if he...

Columbia University has suspended its entire men’s wrestling team over a series of “racist, misogynistic, and homophobic” texts, The New York Times reports. Administrators are currently investigating the texts, which date as far back as 2014 and were sent back and forth between members. Student news website BWOG was the first to reveal the scandal after publishing screenshots of the offending texts. One of the texts refers to a student as a “gay fuck,” while another reads, “We got a missing fa*got no...