Tag: threat
Young man stoned in the street by homophobic ‘gang’
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...
Watch: Gay man confronts homophobic, knife-wielding man on London bus
"That’s why they go home to watch batty man programmes."
A gay man stood up to homophobe who threatened him with a knife on a London bus.
Daniel Simmonds was travelling on a bus last Friday evening (June 23). When he heard the unidentified man making a series of anti-gay comments. Daniel began to document the tirade by recording a video.
“It is not all right to be gay. It is all right to be lesbian? It is not all right!”, the...
The Stonewall Inn’s National Monument Status Threatened Under Trump
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Donald Trump will sign an executive order this week that will see the Interior Department reviewing all national monument designations of the past 21 years, including last year’s designation of the Stonewall Inn.
Barack Obama designated the site a national monument last year, saying at the time: “Stonewall will be our first national monument to tell the story of the struggle for LGBT rights.”
Now the Stonewall Inn’s special status is threatened.
According to the Tribune,...
