Tag: attack

The victim tried to calm a group that was spewing homophobic slurs at him and his friends. A gay man suffered a broken jaw at the hands of attackers in Brooklyn in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The victim, 27, was ordering food with friends at a fast-food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were approached by a group making anti-gay comments. When he tried to de-escalate the situation, one attacker punched him in the face. The assailant was...

The story follows two young men who were attacked outside a nightclub in Brighton, leaving physical and emotional scars. Is It Safe To Be Gay in The UK? is the name of a new documentary where this story appears as a part of the BBC Gay Britannia series on BBC iPlayer. James and Dain had been together for five years when on a bank holiday weekend in Brighton, they were both attacked outside of a club. “We were having a great time,...

After they recover from their injuries, they are likely to be sent back to the same refugee camp where they were attacked A Serbian gay couple seeking asylum in Germany have barely survived a vicious attack at the refugee camp where they were living. The incident was revealed in a Facebook post by Javid Nabiyev on the Queer Refugees Pride page. The men were beaten last week and ‘were almost dead’ when they arrived to hospital. Nabiyev and the Queer Refugees Pride...

A gay couple has been brutally attacked by a gang of nine while walking home. Matthew Seward and his partner Laurence Cerrone were beaten and kicked by the youths, aged 15 to 21, on Sunday. Seward was left needing stitches after the unprovoked assault on the men in Whitchurch, in west England, which also saw one the group take his phone while he was on the ground. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime. Seward had been helping his mother on...

Carlos Pinto and his partner were out enjoying a meal in the area when an attacker ran in and stabbed the woman London is reeling following the attack in London Bridge last night that left seven people dead and 48 people injured. The attack was carried out by three men who were all shot dead by police within minutes of their deadly rampage. It is being treated as a terrorist incident. None of the victims have yet been named while next of...

A gay man in Berlin has reportedly been attacked by a family. The 35-year-old man was walking through Neukölln, a neighbourhood in the south-east of the city, on Friday when he was attacked. The group of men, women and children, who have been identified as a family, verbally insulted the man. The men also punched and kicked him before a female passerby intervened and called the police. The man has since been taken to hospital but the attackers have not yet been identified...

A group of five lesbians were set upon by more than 15 men in a homophobic beating which left some missing teeth. One woman said she feared she would die from the attack, another lost seven front teeth from a single punch and a third had a fit after she was left bleeding. The women, who published photos of their injuries in The News, but said they didn’t want to be named, had left the Blue Anchor pub. After singing ‘I’m in...

A jail sentence has been upheld for a man who beat up and robbed a gay man in a park in Nottingham. Andrew Mark Perry was last November jailed for nine years for the attack. A jury convicted him of unlawful wounding and robbery. The 43-year-old was one of two masked men who attacked their victim in the Broxtowe park back in November 2015, as he tried to meet a man he had come in contact with using Grindr. London’s Appeal Court on...

Bias crimes in the Big Apple have spiked in 2017. A gay man was viciously attacked on a New York subway Thursday by a stranger because of his sexual orientation. The unnamed victim, 29, was on his way from Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn to Manhattan when he was accosted on the C Train. The assailant, who was not apprehended, punched and spit on the man as he shouted homophobic slurs. The NYPD says there has been an increase in bias crimes reported in...

A small, simple act can be incredibly powerful and symbolic. Two Dutch Politicians arrived holding hands for a meeting to discuss the formation of a new Dutch goverment, today. The symbolic gesture was meant to show solidarity and support for a gay couple who were brutally attacked over the weekend. NL Times reports: Journalist Barbara Barend started this action with a tweet calling on all men in the Netherlands to hold hands in public, to show support.  Jasper Vernes-Sewratan and Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes were attacked and beaten up by a...

The Westboro Baptist Church says the terror attack in London which left three innocent people dead happened because they’re banned from the country. Three people were killed and 20 injured in the terrorist incident yesterday in the centre of London, when a man ran a car into a crowd on Westminster Bridge, before stabbing a police officer outside Parliament. The attacker was shot by police and later died. Following the attack, anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist Church has blamed Prime Minister Theresa...

A 23-year-old man was treated in hospital for facial injuries A 23-year-old Londoner had a glass smashed in his face for holding hands with his boyfriend in a Wetherspoon pub. The unnamed victim was attacked at the Kentish Drovers pub in Peckham on Sunday evening, according to police. A witness said the gay couple were holding hands when the attacker became aggressive. The attacker then approached the two men, smashing a glass into the victim’s face. Police raced to the scene after being called...

He is receiving massive support during this traumatizing time An activist in France was kidnapped, held captive and violently raped for two days in France. Pictures of Zak Ostmane, an LGBTI rights activist from Algeria, show him to be bloody and bruised in a hospital gown. He is one of the founding members of Shams France, a gay rights organization created in 2014 defending the rights of people born of gender and sexual minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya. ‘Last weekend, Zak...

He was also in possession of cocaine. Sean Cody’s “Robert” (James Seat) was arrested for assaulting a police officer outside of a Cracker Barrel while naked and high on cocaine. Nashville police were called to the restaurant on January 23 after patrons made complaints about the gay-for-pay performer’s erratic behavior. When they showed up, Seat was lying naked on the ground. Once he spotted the officers, he began violently screaming at them. While being arrested for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct, the porn...