Tag: homophobic attack

Two men have been left with significant injuries after a homophobic attack in the Republic of Ireland. Gary Daly was on a date in the town of Sligo when he was confronted for kissing another man. The 32-year-old lab technician told the Irish Sun: “A guy started demanding we leave the bar, but we refused and said ‘we have the same rights as anyone else to be here’. “He left and returned with a bunch of guys, between eight or ten, and...

A man has admitted to attacking a stranger in Aberdeen before shouting “He’s gay, he deserved it”. Cameron Burnside – a 20-year-old with a history of alcohol issues – launched a random attack on an innocent member of the public in Aberdeen City Centre, the Evening Express reports. He appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted to assaulting the man by punching him on the head. The motive was believed to be hate-driven, as he was heard shouting homophobic abuse...

Gay guy attacked on evening after Pride in London speaks to GSN from his hospital bed about facing a lifetime of impaired vision A gay man is facing a lifetime of blindness in one eye after an attack and robbery outside a gay club in London. Lewis Davis, a 37-year-old marketing assistant for luxury beauty brands, was out with two friends celebrating after Pride in London on Saturday night (8 July). Arriving into Soho at 8.30pm, the three friends realized the main...

Paula Devine, 52, says that her 25-year-old son has repeatedly been the target of homophobic attackers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the past three years. “It started with slurs about six months after he moved in, the name calling, it’s all homophobic abuse, once they found out he was gay that was it,” she told Belfast Live. The abuse escalated until one night, when the victim was leaving his mother’s house to go home, the attackers threw stones at him and...

A teen who was beaten and sexually assaulted by former classmates now lies brain dead in a hospital in Malaysia. Eighteen-year-old T. Nhaveen had just finished his shift at a supermarket in Bayan Lepas when he and best friend Previin, 19, went to get a bite at a nearby burger joint. According to police, the two were accosted outside the restaurant by two former schoolmates who began to taunt Nhaveen. (The pair had previously bullied him in school for being effeminate.)...

He was coloring in a park when he says he was attacked by five men A gay disabled man who was allegedly beaten and gang-raped by five men has bravely spoken out about the attack. Steven Greyeyes-Clouse, who has developmental disabilities, is autistic and has cerebral palsy, was sitting in Sacramento Park filling out an adult coloring book on 26 May. He said four men approached him and exposed themselves. Attempting to flee from the group by going to the bathroom, an older...

He was verbally abused and beaten in a park early on Sunday morning Thugs verbally abused and punched a teenager in a park in the early hours of Sunday (7 May) morning. In what police have called a ‘homophobic hate crime’, the boy was walking past a supermarket when the unprovoked incident occurred in Bristol, England. Around 4am, he was verbally abused and punched in the face, according to the Bristol Post. The teenager was taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary and treated for...

'It's definitely a hate crime' Homophobic attackers beat up gay American Adrian Brown in an unprovoked incident at a Bahamian carnival. Adrian Brown and friend Sylvano Demarco came to Junkanoo beach in the Bahamas for a a holiday but did not expect the events of last night (5 May). As Brown was dancing on the beach, he was unsolicitedly splashed with water from people he had never met. He told Gay Star News that he asked: ‘Why did you splash me with water?’ To...

The singer and his boyfriend Shane Cooper were confronted at knife point over the weekend. Craig Colton – who competed in The X Factor back in 2011 – has revealed that he was the victim of a homophobic attack at his own home. The incident took place in the early hours of the morning on Sunday (23 April), when a 20-year-old woman confronted them while brandishing a knife. “After a horrible night, of being attacked with a knife and homophobic rants at...

A man has come forward after a gay couple was beaten viciously on board a train near London on Valentine’s Day. The couple, Phil Poole, 35 and his boyfriend Zbynek Zatloukal, 26, had been on a night out in Reading for Valentine’s and were beaten and hospitalised. They say they were subjected to homophobic slurs before being beaten up by a group of around five men on board a train from Reading into London. The British Transport Police since put out an...

Police are hunting for two thugs who disfigured a man for life in a stabbing attack in which they used homophobic slurs. 23-year-old Lee Michael of Manchester was injured in the attack in the early hours of Monday morning, while walking home from a friend’s house. Mr Michael was trailed by two men who asked for a cigarette, before branding him a “fag”. When he refused them a cigarette, one of the men slashed him in the face with a sharp object,...

Police are on the hunt for suspects after two men were hospitalised after being beaten in a homophobic attack. The two men, who are both in their 40s, were taken to the hospital for treatment after they were punched and kicked in an attack on a tram on their way home. GMP are urging the public for information on these two people A man and two women became involved in a row with the victims at 10.30pm on January the 22nd. The Greater...

Victim Mantej Sandhu: 'I thought I was going to die. I thought forsure this was the end' A gay couple in Ohio, say they were viciously beaten by a group of men over the weekend. Bryson Beier and Mantej Sandhu tell a local TV station they were attacked while walking in the Columbus neighborhood of Short North early Saturday (28 January). ‘I thought I was going to die. I thought for sure this was the end,’ Sandhu tells 10TV. He says they were...

Couple who met on Big Brother say they were attacked Hughie Maughan, star of Big Brother and Dancing With The Stars Ireland, has claimed he was attacked in an alleged homophobic attack in Dublin yesterday (29 January). The gay reality TV star went to an awards show and an after party with his Big Brother co-star and fiancé, Ryan Ruckledge, when he says a ‘bunch of lads’ confronted them. Can’t believe what happened last night me and Ryan went to an awards...