Tag: harassment

A person might think that homosexuality is no longer a taboo in the 21st century, but the sad truth is that many people from all over the globe still nurture prejudice and hatred towards the LGBTQ community. It’s a major issue, particularly if you know that over 1.8 million LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 in the US seriously consider suicide each year. The main reason is that 92% of young homosexuals report hearing negative messages about...

Sarah McBride, who works for the Human Rights Campaign, was specfically targeted A shocking video posted on Facebook shows two women barging into a meeting in Washington, DC, and harassing a transgender woman. Posie Parker began streaming the live video on Wednesday (30 January) morning. The video depicts her and Julia Long spewing transphobic harassment toward Sarah McBride. McBride is the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign. In the video, both Parker and Long continuously misgender McBride. At one point, Parker states:...

'We want you gone queer' A gay high school teacher in Kansas decided to move away after months of harassment and threats. Michael Hill taught visual arts at Nemaha Valley High School in Seneca, Kansas. He originally came out last October on National Coming Out Day. That’s when the negativity began. ‘Things got ugly,’ he told the Topeka-Capitol Journal. ‘I started to fear for my own well-being.’ He shared some of the letters he received on Facebook, as well as his future plans. On...

"If this is how you are treating one another, how the hell are you treating the public?” A policeman in Bergen County, New Jersey, is suing the sheriff for homophobic harassment and wrongful termination. Andrew Kara, a former Marine and SWAT team officer, claims other cops in his squadron repeatedly taunted him with gay slurs, including “homo” and “fag.” He was mocked for being “girlish”, despite being an ex-Marine, and asked invasive questions about his HIV status. (At one point, a...

A new lawsuit file against Tesla, claims LGBT discrimination. This is the second in two days, with the first one being over racial harassment. In the past it has been found guilty of sexism. In the new lawsuit, an assembly line worker, Jorge Ferro claims he was taunted and threatened for being gay. Ferro claims he was fired for reporting the issues, and that an HR employee took his badge away and insinuated being gay was a handicap. Telsa has issued a...

Jessica Lundquist and Tiffany Steinberg recently returned to the Huntington Beach pier in Orange County, California to celebrate their second anniversary in the same place where they held hands in public for the very first time. Unfortunately, while they were out celebrating, they were approached by an unfamiliar man. Lundquist said, "he got uncomfortably close...he said that we were 'unnatural' and we were going to hell for our actions...we were just trying to get away from the conversation." More from OC Weekly: The...

Thousands of irate internet trolls want a college professor fired from his job after his husband got into an altercation with de facto incoming-First lady Ivanka Trump on a JetBlue flight last week. Matt Lasner is an award-winning writer and associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College in New York. Over 7,500 people have signed a Change.org petition demanding he be fired after his husband, Dan Goldstein, went on a rant against President-elect Donald Trump’s policies as Ivanka waited for takeoff. “Matt Lasner’s...

This is a social experiment. The main aim of it is to spread awareness to the harassment of homosexual people met in the streets of New York City. This video doesn't have any intention to offend somebody. This guy spent three hours walking silent different areas of Manhattan, dressed up as a gay. The reaction of people in the streets was quite different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6-ZYSZoDM As a result of this social experience, this guy faced more than 50 instances of verbal harassment for...