Tag: sexual assault

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...

LGBTQ actors might soon be suffering because of sexual molesters. As a reaction to the many sexual assault claims popping out of Hollywood, movie studios are considering the return of morality clauses. Moral clauses were big in the 1920s. They allowed movie studios to place strict limitations on the personal lives of actors. This was enacted so studios could maintain their reputations and prevent actors from getting into big scandals or crime cases. These clauses often protected studios and filmmakers “if the...

Underwear brand Andrew Christian has indefinitely suspended one of its models and trophy boys Topher DiMaggio while they investigate the several sexual assault claims against him. Five different men, one of which is porn star Tegan Zayne and another is YouTube personality Bryan Hawn, have all come forward with claims that DiMaggio has sexually assaulted them. A statement emailed to Queerty from someone at Andrew Christian stated: Andrew Christian does not condone sexual abuse or any other type of abuse or mistreatment...

A refuge from Chechnya's gay purge says that he had to apologize for dishonoring the country on television. 28-year-old Movsar Eskarkhanov fled Chechnya for Germany. Then, Eskarkhanov spoke with Time about being kidnaped, blackmailed, sexually assaulted, and tortured. Afterwards, Eskarkhanov made the news again but this time in a negative light. Chechnya tv station Grozny TV presented him as mentally ill. Sadly, Eskarkhanov took part in this retelling of his story and said that he not only invented the tale of his...

Two men from Orange County, California are currently in custody and undergoing pre-trials for harassing a gay couple. 18-year-old Samuel Blake Wickwire (seen above) is facing two felony counts. According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, one of those counts is for criminal threats and the other for violation of civil rights. On top of that, these crimes have been counted as hate crimes, which has extended his possible sentencing time to a potential six years in prison. In addition,...

He's the latest celebrity to speak out against the actor Several LGBTI celebrities have taken to Twitter to criticize Kevin Spacey’s decision to come out after sexual assault allegations. The latest, actor Zachary Quinto, tweeted a lengthy and emotional statement about it. https://twitter.com/ZacharyQuinto/status/925040235066679296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaystarnews.com%2Farticle%2Fzachary-quinto-kevin-spacey-emotional-statement%2F Quinto holds nothing back in his words. The tweet has over 31,000 re-tweets and also over 87,000 likes. Here’s his statement in full: It is deeply sad and troubling that this is how Kevin Spacey has chosen to come out. Not...