Tag: attack

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - "We're not seen as humans by some people," said Emmit Davis, a transgender man in Colorado Springs brutally attacked with his partner by a group of men. Davis and his partner of 6 months pictured above. The attack happened this past Saturday as Davis and his partner were sitting outside on their porch. "For it to happen in our own front yard, it was pretty terrifying," he said. Davis said three men jumped over the fence to his property...

The Philadelphia LGBTQ community is shook after another violent attack took place on Sunday night outside a popular gay bar. The victim, a 50-year-old patron of The Toasted Walnut, was standing right outside the bar around 11PM on Sunday night when the assault took place. According to police reports, four men and a woman took part in the assault. Josh Schonewolf, the bartender who was working that night, saw the attack as it happened. “All of a sudden a car full of guys...

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...

9 UK men have been sentenced for attacking gay men. The Hackney Gazetter reports that a gang of men led by Huseyin Onel attacked three men on suspicion of the victims’ sexual orientations. The stream of attacks started outside of gay nightclub Dalston Superstore on May 5. Onel started the first assault by stomping and kicking the first victim. The second victim then started filming the attack while trying to defend the first one. Onel then sprayed a corrosive substance from...

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....

A typical night at one of San Antonio’s gay watering holes, Pegasus Nightclub, turned into a nightmare for patrons. According to My San Antonio, a customer was kicked out of the bar around 12:30 a.m. on Monday October 8th and returned shortly after and opened gun fire on patrons outside of the bar near a taco stand. Two men and one woman were struck by the gun fire that sent San Antonio’s gay strip running in a frenzy. According...

A 19-year-old Italian gay man was savagely beaten by an unidentified attacker in a popular nighttime area of the city of Turin on Saturday. The teenager, who was only identified by the fictitious name Alberto in the Italian press, and a female friend were on their way to meet other friends when a group of people approached them near an crowded station of the underground. One of the guys, who appeared to be in his early 20s, mocked the way...

London police have released a video of an altercation that happened in March in order to help find their culprit. Around 4 am on March 25, former army soldier Lee Wardle was taking a bus towards Clapham Junction. It was during this ride that he overheard a man having an obnoxiously loud conversation on his phone. As he told the Evening Standard: “A guy was sat on the top deck just in front of me having a really loud, obnoxious conversation using...

A gay football fan has been left with serious brain injuries after being viciously attacked in Russia. O. Davrius and his partner had travelled to Russia from France to cheer on their home country, but were beaten in St Petersburg after catching a taxi. Their phones and wallets were stolen in the horrendous attack. Davrius was left with more severe injuries than his partner, suffering with a fractured jaw, brain contusion and an open craniocerebral injury. Two men have been arrested in...

A Utah café worker is being applauded for defending a gay couple who were being harassed by a large group of men. While participating in Utah’s Pride Festival on Saturday, a gay couple was walking around downtown Salt Lake City. Around 10 p.m. that night, the two men found themselves being harassed by a group of 10 to 15 white men. The men yelled out homophobic slurs at the couple and followed them as they fled. The gay men then came across...

Teens threw rocks and two hit this gay guy on the back of his head A gay guy was attacked with rocks after leaving queer music festival Mighty Hoopla in London. Teens yelled homophobic slurs and pelted Jeff Ingold, the media manager at Stonewall, with rocks. Attacked with rocks after Mighty Hoopla This is what Jeff has to say: Last night, I was walking to the corner store with some friends and we passed a group of teenagers. We had just come from a...

Aaron Salazar's family believes the attack was a hate crime, but Amtrak officials are claiming it may have been a suicide attempt A gay student attending Portland State University in Oregon was brutally beaten. What happened? Aaron Salazar was taking the train from his home in Colorado back to his school’s campus in Oregon on 15 May. On the way, he had a 10-hour layover in California. Salazar decided to stay with a friend he had made on the journey, and texted...

Video of security guards attacking two Chinese women at an LGBTQ event in Beijing has sparked outrage online. This past Sunday, LGBTQ people and supporters gathered at the 798 district in Beijing, which is known for its art. At the time, people were gathering to hand out rainbow badges to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia. Unfortunately, that would then incite a homophobic attack of its own. Two security guards stopped the organizer of the event from walking further down district...

On the afternoon of April 8, two gay men were the target of a violent anti-LGBT attack that occurred in Miami Beach shortly after the city's Pride Parade. The couple, Dmitry Logunov and Rene Chalarca, were severely beaten by four men as they walked home after celebrating LGBT Pride. Surveillance cameras outside the Miami Beach bathroom, located near the beach along Ocean Drive and Sixth Street, recorded the assault. The victims said they were targeted for their sexual orientation as their assailants...