Tag: homophobic attack

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...

It's not being treated as a homophobic attack Two men attacked a group of people in Hackney in London during the early hours of Sunday (6 May). Three men – aged 17, 22, and 27 – suffered potentially ‘lasting’ injuries in the attack. A witness woke up around 5am when he heard a commotion. The attack happened on Shacklewell Lane, at the junction with Alvington Crescent – near the gay bar, Dalston Superstore. ‘They were punching at people walking either side of the...

The victim couldn’t believe there were so many onlookers to his attack that didn’t bother to call the police An outspoken Russian LGBTI and HIV activist has woken up in hospital with a broken jaw but has no recollection of the attack. Boris Konakov woke up in St Petersburg’s Alexandra Hospital on Monday 30 April. The provocative activist has a severely broken jaw that will require surgery and potentially titanium screws. Extensive tests revealed Konakov has comminuted fracture. Fractures of that degree usually...

'Even if I bleed...I will fight to the end.' A young man has posted an emotional Facebook post after allegedly being attacked by his sister for being gay. Diogo Camargo, 22, from Brazil, took a shocking selfie of his head bleeding profusely and posted it on social media. He said he was attacked by his sister and brother-in-law. ‘Do you also have an abusive and homophobic sister?’ he wrote. ‘I hope not.’ Attacked by brother-in-law and sister Camargo wrote his relationship, which he had been...

The man allegedly was calling them 'f****ts' on a busy street in Sydney A Sydney man was hospitalized after his arm was broken in an alleged homophobic attack. Adrian Kalaiziovski and his husband, Kurt Johnson, were getting out of an Uber on Monday night (29 April). They were in the inner-city suburb of Redfern when the man allegedly started hurling abuse at them. ‘He called us faggots for a good 5 minutes and continued to taunt us and antagonise us,’ Johnson wrote...

Washington, D.C. police are investigating the attack of two gay men. Sunday morning, D.C. Council candidate Jamie Sycamore tweeted that two gay men were attacked in the 2000 block of 10th Street Northwest. “Last night two men were gaybashed outside the @HowardTheatre,” he tweeted. “Our country is in decline, and it’s time to start making change locally to ensure our #DCValues remain strong.” “As far as I know, they were walking and they started getting called names and they got attacked,” he...

A gay man was left unable to open one of his eyes after a vicious homophobic attack. Brendan, 36, was called a “f**king faggot” before being punched in the left eye. Though he doesn’t remember the rest of the attack in Victoria, Australia, because he lost consciousness, Brendan was left with damage to his ribs, skull and other eye. Three men followed him for a short distance after he left an Australia Day celebration in the early hours of January 27 before...

One assailant called him a "f*cking f*ggot," before the trio began punching him. Police in Melbourne are searching for three suspects who viciously attacked a man leaving a gay bar. The 36-year-old victim, identified as Brandon, was leaving Sircuit Bar in late January when the trio followed him. One assailant called him a “fucking faggot,” before the group began punching him. The assault left Brandon with a fractured skull and bruised ribs. He was unable to open one of his eyes...

The 20-year-old victim was shocked no passersby came to his aid despite appealing for help An English student was viciously beaten in Bologna, Italy, on Sunday evening. His assailants spat and shouted at him from a car, ‘Hey, are you a faggot?’, before jumping out and running after him. When they caught up with the 20-year-old, they subjected him to a vicious beating, according to Republica. The young man suffered a broken nose and head injury. The attack happened in the historic...

Carl Blea and husband Marc Lange refute police's claim it was a "robbery gone wrong." A gay man from Palm Springs was shot while holding hands with his husband while the pair were on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A bullet went through real-estate agent Carl Blea’s buttocks and exited through his thigh, according to the Desert Sun. Blea and husband Marc Lange were returning from a night out at about 2:30am, walking toward the condo they were staying at, when a...

Police are still investigating the murder of Kansas City resident Ta’Ron Carson. 24-year-old Carson, whose friends also called him Rio, left club Aura early Sunday morning on March 4. As he sat at a bench on the corner of 39th and Main, Carson was shot by two people in a black SUV. Brittany Bronson, a friend of Carson told Kansas City Fox News that she saw his final moments. The two had split up after exiting the club, and Bronson got...

Though he decried England's "mass fornication," Umar Haque had been searching for transgender sex workers. A British supporter of Islamic State has been found guilty of planning numerous terror attacks in London, including violent assaults on gay bars and public monuments. Umar Haque, 25, was an Islamic studies teacher at a private school and worked at a mosque, both in East London, where he attempted to turn students into a “child army” to carry out attacks. Haque, 25, kept a notebook...

The attackers 'stamped on a victim's head' Three people have sustained serious injuries after being subjected to an unprovoked attack in Blackpool, northwest England, on the weekend. Joe Clarke, 22 and his two friends, Summer Tarrant 20 and David Westworth, 24, were viciously attacked as they made their way home from a night out. Taking place at around 5.30am GMT on Saturday (17 February), Police say the trio had homophobic abuse hurled at them before the violent attack on Topping Street. Vicious, unprovoked...

A South African gay man has said he was raped, whipped and covered in human faeces in a homophobic attack. Police have opened a rape investigation following the alleged incident on January 30. Mogamat Yushree Jacobs said that he eventually escaped the Akhbar Rehabilitation Centre in Cape Town after authorities targeted him with vicious attacks – for holding another man’s hand. After 12 years of being addicted to heroin, Jacobs said that eight months at the centre had left him sober and...