Tag: homophobic attack

A Friday night out did not end up well for Mister Gay Belgium 2017. While out in his home town of Roeselare, Belgium, Mister Gay Belgium 2017, Jaimie De Blieck was attacked from behind, pushed to the ground, stomped on, and called him a 'fucking homo.' Saturday morning, after reporting the attack to the police and from the hospital, Jaimie posted a message on Instagram: The translation is: Attacking me from behind and stamping is one thing. Calling me "fucking gay" after...

On May 22, 2015, James William Hill III, approached a co-worker at an Amazon fulfillment center in Chester, VA and began to punch him repeatedly in the face. The victim, who was only referred to as ‘C.T.’ in reports, suffered a black eye, bloody nose, and other injuries to the face. On that day, Hill was questioned by the human resource department and he was open about saying that he “felt disrespected by C.T. because C.T. was a homosexual; that...

"I've had enough. I don't want to live in a gay world." A British man planned to attack a Pride event in Northwest England with a machete and air rifle, jurors heard this week. On Tuesday, prosecutors claimed 20-year-old Ethan Stables “was enraged” when he learned that the New Empire pub in Cumbria was hosting an LGBT event on June 23, 2017. Stables began his reconnaissance of the bar that same day, taking notes and snapping photos, with the aim of launching...

OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas: 'This is a senseless murder' Authorities found 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein stabbed and buried in a shallow grave at a California park on 9 January. Bernstein went missing 2 January after his parents noticed he failed to show for a scheduled dentist appointment. After an eight day search, authorities found his body at Orange County’s Borrego Park. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, of Newport Beach was arrested on Friday (12 January) in relation to the crime. Prosecutors filed one felony...

A gay man has shared a powerful post on Facebook after he suffered a homophobic attack in Iceland. Reykjavík resident Úlfar Viktor Björnsson was allegedly attacked by a man on Saturday night after he asked whether he was attracted to men. After allegedly receiving several blows to the face, Björnsson decided to share his experience on Facebook, serving a poignant reminder that even the least homophobic country in the world doesn’t mean that gay people don’t face discriminatory behaviour. “I have always...

A gay man has been left too scared to leave his home after he was beaten in a homophobic attack outside of a London nightclub. Gordon Maxwell was attacked outside of Troxy, a club in East London last month, and was left needing reconstructive surgery. He also lost a sense of smell through one nostril and suffered permanent nerve damage in other parts of his face. Maxwell, who was wearing a dress at the time of the attack in Tower Hamlets, believes...

A London man has gone to jail for breaking another man’s leg simply because he was gay. 29-year-old Kamil Wladyslaw Snios (seen above) was recently found guilty of slapping, beating, and kicking a 36-year-old man in Tottenham, North London. The victim, who’s chosen to remain anonymous to the press, and a friend were shopping around on July 16th when he was approached by Snios. Snios shouted at the two in Polish before he physically attacked them. Eventually, the 36-year-old man found himself...

The homophobe called him a 'f***ing f*g' A Sydney performer turned the tables on a man who allegedly shouted homophobic slurs at him, by videoing the exchange which went viral on Facebook. Brendan de la Hay started recording the encounter between himself and a man at an Sydney service station in Australia. de la Hay confronts the man who allegedly called him a ‘fucking fag’ and a ‘gay c**t’ after he had gone inside to pay for his fuel. Once he exited, de...

A gay couple in Kentucky have been hospitalised after being victims of a homophobic attack by their friend’s violent ex-boyfriend. The couple were having dinner with their friend (all three have asked to remain anonymous) at their house on November 24, the day after Thanksgiving. When the woman returned to her home after the dinner, she found that it had been broken into and ransacked, that furniture, the television and other personal belongings had been destroyed. She immediately called her friends, and...

A teenager was strangled and forced to apologise for being gay during a sick homophobic attack on a Tube train, police said. The 19-year-old's attackers allegedly threatened to stab him and placed him in a headlock until he struggled to breathe during the attack on a Jubilee line train. One of the victim's female friends, 25, was punched and pushed to the ground when she came to his defence, police said. British Transport Police said officers were treating the incident as a...

Hate crimes on the rise? Well so aren't security camera usage and thank goodness! Horrific footage has been released showing the moment one man smashed a glass into the face of another manas he walked into a bar holding hands with his boyfriend. Anjungi Lam, 35, was caught on CCTV running up and glassing the young man in a homophobic attack in Kentish Drovers pub in South London. The victim, 23, suffered cuts to his nose, lip and neck, a chipped tooth...

"The man tried to attack us several times, spat in our faces and shouted that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and he would kill us." A group of five LGBT Syrian refugees say they were thrown out of a Zara store in Amsterdam after enduring a homophobic attack by another customer. One member of the group, Tarek Almolki, told Dutch newspaper Het Parool that security staff at the clothing retailer looked the other way when a man in...

Ex-PM Kevin Rudd calls for respectful debate Ex-Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd tweeted a photo of his bloodied and bruised godson after a vicious homophobic attack. 19-year-old Sean Foster was campaigning for same-sex marriage on Oxford Street in Brisbane when the incident occurred. According to a Facebook post from Bulimba 4 Marriage Equality, the unidentified perpetrator called out to Foster: ‘I hate fucking faggots!’ To which Foster replied: ‘That’s ok, I don’t like you.’ When the man asked if Foster was calling him...

Diaz Bravo was attacked with a broken glass to the face A Chilean events host was savagely assaulted with a broken glass at a pub during a homophobic attack. Patricio Díaz Bravo was allegedly attacked on Sunday by a woman who had been shouting homophobic insults at him. He was attacked at a pub in Puerto Natales in the southern Patagonian region of Chile. LGBTI organization, Movilh, reported that Yerka Torres Ojeda was hurling slurs such as, ‘colipato’ and ‘maricon’, Spanish colloquialisms for...