Tag: homophobic attack

Gyo Mendez had a gun held to his head as a vandal sprayed "fag" on his car. A married couple in Kansas City, Missouri is hoping to raise money for security cameras in their new home after being targeted in a hate crime over the weekend. Paul Oldham shared a post to his Facebook page that detailed the terrifying ordeal his husband, Gyo, endured late Friday night. “He explained between gasps that he had heard something outside and went out the back...

Two teenagers have been jailed over a shocking homophobic attack on two gay men. 18-year-old Gage Vye-Parminter and 19-year-old Matthew Howes were sentenced to five years and four months in a young offender institution today at Brighton Crown Court. The pair were found guilty over a homophobic attack on Brighton seafront on May 2 year. The victims, a 22 and 24-year-old man, said the pair followed them along the seafront shouting homophobic insults before their shocking attack. The 22-year old man sustained fractured...

A 22-year-old has been left with a series of scratches and wounds on his face after he was attacked in broad daylight. Christopher Johnson was attacked at 11am on Tuesday morning leaving him needing urgent medical attention. Johnson, who said he lost an hour of his memory following the attack, had his facial wounds treated at the hospital. He told the Liverpool Echo, who published images of Johnson’s wounds: “I spent the night at my best friend’s house and I walked along...

A gay couple were viciously beaten with bottles in a homophobic attack on Christmas day. The couple and their two friends were punched and kicked in the head and body by a “group of about 15”. They were outside a pub in Thornaby, North Yorkshire when they were attacked by what they called a “homophobic gang”. Jayson Homer, his partner, their friend Marc Vasey and another female friend were at the pub for a festive drink. They say that issues began around 8.30pm...

A cage fighter has been exposed as the man behind a horrific homophobic attack last New Year’s Eve. David Ryan, 56, was brutally attacked walking home from the pub after celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends. Now the police have released the mug shot of his attacker. Keith Moult, a 35-year-old cage fighter and boxer, beat the man up in an attack so brutal it left Mr Ryan just 15 minutes from death according to doctors. Moult has now been found guilty of...

The Equality House has been attacked by thugs who left homophobic graffiti and smashed windows. The Topeka, Kansas-based symbol of LGBT+ equality was established by Planting Peace back in 2013. Sharing its local vicinity with the hideously anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church, the building has been painted with rainbow colours in order to be seen as a celebration of community. A same-sex wedding has taken place at the Equality House, as well as a lemonade stand hoping to advocate for peace. But Planting Peace...

Warning: This article contains graphic images that some people might find distressing. A gay man was reportedly attacked by Trump supporters on election night leaving him bleeding and requiring five staples in his head. Chris Ball, a Calgary film producer, spent election night watching poll results at a bar. As the evening progressed tensions began to rise from supporters on both sides of the political spectrum. “People started launching homophobic slurs at me from afar,” he told Metro News. “I mean, I...

A man was attacked on his way home because he was wearing a pink shirt. Kent Morgan was walking past an alleyway after finishing his shift at a local bar in New Zealand when two men appeared and called him a ‘pink shirt wearing homo.’ Morgan ignored the two men, but they continued to harass him over his clothing, before attacking him. “I just carried on walking because I thought there’s no point answering back because it sounded like they’d had a...

A man is being charged with a felony hate crime after a 64-year-old gay man chased him down after being hit and called a “faggot”. Earlier this month, Richard Schiwietz was just walking down a Santa Barbara street with a friend when an unknown man approached them with his middle finger in the air and yelled, “Faggot! Your mother’s a whore!” When Schiwietz told the man to stop, he refused and shouted, “You say one more word, and I’m going to...

A man has been sentenced to nine years behind bars over a homophobic attack in which he bit off his neighbour’s ear. 21-year-old Ryan Kilgariff carried out the attack on Folkestone man Colin Duncan, his neighbour, on March 9. In the horrific attack, Mr Duncan was kicked and punched, had his ear bitten off, and was beaten with a glass bottle. Mr Duncan was left needing 20 stitches after the attack, while surgeons needed to reattach his ear. According to Kent Online, prosecutors said:...

A man who was viciously beaten in an anti-gay assault says police officers refused to offer him help. Omar Villalobos said he was terrified after a homeless man began shouting homophobic abuse at him in the street, before punching him in the face. However, Mr Villalobos says the situation went from bad to worse after the police officers who witnessed the attack decided to completely ignore it. “I was holding one side of my face, blood pouring down my hand and onto...