Tag: attack

A gay couple was leaving a local gay club in the city of Monterrey, in Mexico last week when they were targeted and beaten by police officers based on their sexuality. Armando Ocampo Zambrano and Sergio Eduardo Bueno were finishing off their night of partying at 5 a.m. as they headed to a nearby restaurant. It was then that two police cars chased them and upon arriving at their location were stopped and removed by force by the cops....

"It didn't stop us for a single second," says store manager Uli Lenart. Vandals targeted at landmark LGBT bookstore in the U.K., smashing the shop’s windows early Sunday morning. Gay’s The Word has been a London mainstay for nearly 40 years and the staff say the incident hasn’t deterred them. “We see it for what it was,” manager Uli Lenart told The Bookseller. “We immediately boarded it up and then got a new window put in. It didn’t stop us ...

The victims reportedly met his killer via a personals ad. The alleged killer of a gay man in Spain has been arrested, 18 years after he brutally killed his victim and scrawled “Hitler was right!” in blood on the wall. In 2000, a gay Barcelona man named Vitervo met up with another man he met via a personals ad. Authorities believe the two met at Montgat train station before going out for drinks. They returned to Vitervo’s home, which he shared...

"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...

Police have arrested a 14-year-old suspect and believe he was working in a group. More arrests are anticipated. Two men were lured into attacks over the weekend in the Western Netherlands town of Dordrecht after they went to meet up with someone they met on Grindr. While one of the two men was able to flee before being injured, the second was injured so severely he had to be hospitalized. Police believe the men may have been attacked due to their...

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested over an attack on two gay men. Two unsuspecting men in Dordrecht in the Netherlands were attacked after being lured to a ‘hook-up’ via a fake profile via the dating app Grindr. The men were allegedly lured to a car park in the early hours to meet their ‘date’ – then set upon by a gang and violently assaulted. The first victim, aged 28, was hospitalised with minor injuries after being attacked late on Friday night. The...

During his trial, Ethan Stables claimed he was bisexual. A British man convicted of planning a terror attack on a gay bar now faces life in prison. Ethan Stables, 20, shared his scheme to attack the New Empire pub in Cumbria last June with members of a white supremacist Facebook group. “There’s a Pride night. I’m going to walk in with a fucking machete and slaughter every single one of them,” he wrote, adding, “I don’t want to live in a gay...

Last week, we shared with you the news that 20-year-old Ethan Stables was arrested under the suspicion that he was going to attack an LGBTQ pub. This suspicion came directly from Stables who shared on a Hitler appreciate Facebook group that he was going to “walk in with a fucking machete and slaughter every single one of the gay bastards.” Then when Cumbia police apprehended him, Stables was doing reconnaissance right outside the pub. They also found a machete, some sort...

"People suck." The windows of an LGBT center in Reno, Nevada, were smashed Tuesday night in an apparent act of vandalism, the latest in a series of attacks on queer organizations across the country in the past year. The glass door and windows of Our Center on South Wells Avenue were hit at around 7pm, while staffers were inside, according to NBC 4. Witnesses reported someone with a mask on shouted for people to get down before they threw a rock...

Officers have not ruled out the possibility the attacks may have been carried out by the same man Nowadays no one day goes without homophobic attack when gay men suffer either physically or mentally. It is truth of our life. Indeed a lot of cases happen from day to day when gay men are either beaten or pushed and in better cases are just told homophobic slurs. What can we wait for if the President of the USA himself voted for death...

A 23-year-old has been found guilty of killing a genderfluid teenager in a brutal, premeditated attack. Jorge “Lumni” Sanders-Galvez kidnapped, suffocated and murdered 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson after he and his cousin discovered that the teenager was non-binary. He will be sentenced next month, but faces mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. His cousin, Jaron Purham, is in the process of being tried separately for the same crime of first-degree murder. Kedarie, who did not identify as trans, enjoyed dressing in...

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 group of LGBT+ students were subjected to homophobic chanting during their school homecoming in Kansas last week. Members of the Gender-Sexuality Alliance Club participated in their annual parade Olathe Northwest High School, but were met with taunts of “Make America straight again” from a small number of the crowd. They were subjected to numerous slurs and dirt being thrown at them, as well as being told to go kill themselves. What’s more, the harassment even spilled onto social media, with a...

"Are those two gays kissing?" Two local gay men were attacked last month in Ireland by a group of men who objected to them kissing in public, the Irish Sun reports. Gary Daly, 32, was on a date with the other victim, 20, at a Sligo pub when he heard another patron shout, “Are those two gays kissing?” “A guy started demanding we leave the bar, but we refused and said ‘we have the same rights as anyone else to be here,'”...