Tag: homophobic slurs

The manager of a tattoo parlor in Jackson Heights, New York who screamed homophobic slurs at a gay couple before getting into a physical altercation with the men will not be charged with a hate crime, the DA’s office says. 26-year-old Mohammed Hoque was caught on camera going off on husbands Jeremy Valarezo and Joseph Sokolowski after they refused to have their IDs scanned while trying to purchase a pipe from Village Moon Tattoo Shop. The incident happened last November. In a...

A disturbed man pulled out a handgun outside Ruby Deluxe in Raleigh. An armed man was arrested Monday night after spewing homophobic slurs and brandishing a handgun outside a gay-friendly nightclub in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grayson Pittman was carrying a backpack containing a gun, a knife, and a Taser, when he approached Ruby Deluxe, a two-year-old bar on Salisbury Street. The 27-year-old reportedly got into an altercation with the door man, and pulled his firearm and went on an anti-gay rant...

"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 reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press, Paul Gonzalez, who wrote an article about last-minute Christmas Shopping was the victim of a bad homophobic joke by another staffer. The writer's last name "Gonzalez" was changed to "Gayzalez" and after the words News-Press, the word "Faggoat" appeared. The story ran in the paper on Christmas Day, but the online version of the byline was not changed. https://twitter.com/Selfmademax/status/945417213074325504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Fnewspaper-prints-homophobic-slur-writers-byline According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune, the Donald Katich, Director of Operations at SBNP...

The victim tried to calm a group that was spewing homophobic slurs at him and his friends. A gay man suffered a broken jaw at the hands of attackers in Brooklyn in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The victim, 27, was ordering food with friends at a fast-food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were approached by a group making anti-gay comments. When he tried to de-escalate the situation, one attacker punched him in the face. The assailant was...

The openly gay fighter said he was tired of the online harassment. Yusaf Mack used his boxing skills outside of the ring last weekend, attacking a man at a barbershop who he says was trolling him on social media because he’s gay. TMZ first released footage of the 37-year-old repeatedly punching the man at the L.A. Clippers barbershop in Philadelphia on Saturday as customers and employees watched in disbelief. https://twitter.com/ChopShop702/status/833733709761122304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Mack reluctantly came out in 2015 after a pornographic movie featuring him in...

Vandals in Los Angeles have defaced the LA LGBT Centre with a series of homophobic slurs. Workers arrived at the centre on Friday to find slurs including “f*ck trannies”, “f*ck all y’all” and “f*g” across the side of the facility which is located in Hollywood. “It happened sometime between 9 and 10 pm last night,” Director of Facilities at the Centre, Jackie DeFede, told Vanguard Now. “We had a security officer on duty, but he was patrolling other areas of the building....

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo was once again the subject of homophobic bullying, this time at the hands of Barcelona fans. The Telegraph reports: If he was bothered by the slurs thrown at him by a small number of Barcelona supporters during a tense, see-sawing Clasico, in which Sergio Ramos maintained Real’s six-point advantage at the top of La Liga with a last-minute header, he had a curious way of showing it. One section of fans at the Nou Camp baited him...

A gay couple in America have had their car vandalised with homophobic slurs. Aaron and Nik McFarland were targeted with the hateful abuse at their home in Ogden, Utah. The graffiti, which said “die homo” and “faggot”, has left the McFarland family upset and in disbelief. Aaron McFarland said: “I seriously laid in bed for a couple of hours because I was just shocked.” Nik’s mother, Jean Kaye, was distraught over the slurs. She said: “I can’t believe Ogden Utah had someone so...