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9 UK men have been sentenced for attacking gay men. The Hackney Gazetter reports that a gang of men led by Huseyin Onel attacked three men on suspicion of the victims’ sexual orientations. The stream of attacks started outside of gay nightclub Dalston Superstore on May 5. Onel started the first assault by stomping and kicking the first victim. The second victim then started filming the attack while trying to defend the first one. Onel then sprayed a corrosive substance from...

He was jealous his trans girlfriend cheated on him with the victim A man who shot and chopped up the gay roommate of his girlfriend out of jealousy has now been given life sentence. Ciro Guarente murdered gay activist Vincenzo Ruggiero in Aversa, southern Italy, in July 2017. After shooting him dead, the killer also tried to conceal Ruggiero’s corpse by chopping it up, dissolving it in acid and hiding it in a garage. The killer was jealous of Ruggiero Guarente was jealous of...

The pair had been previously attacked while taking a walk in Verona's city center An Italian gay couple has been the victim of yet another homophobic attack. Andrea Gardoni, 23, and Angelo Amato, 59, got married in Spain three years ago. They now live in the village of Stallavena, near Verona. The two woke up on the night of 13 September to noises coming from the outside of their house. When Andrea opened to door to check, he saw a dark, tall figure...

The victim put a towel to his neck and wandered the street seeking help Authorities in St. Petersburg, Florida, charged a man with attempted murder when he allegedly stabbed another man in the neck after they had sex. According to reports, Mark Kimball, 54, went to friend Michael Drake’s house. The two engaged in consenual sex and afterward, Drake, 38, grabbed a knife and cut Kimball’s neck multiple times. Drake then left. Kimball put a towel to his neck and wandered out onto...

A Ukrainian citizen was stabbed by a group of strangers earlier today, because they thought he was gay. According to the Kyiv Post, a group of friends were leaving a club around 5:30 am while in the capital city of Kyiv. As the group walked in the direction of a subway station, a separate group of teenagers relaxing at a nearby bench approached them. This second group walked up to the first one and tried to instigate a fight. They insulted...

In April, a gay couple got beaten for holding hands outside a public restroom after Miami Beach Gay Pride by four young men shouting anti-gay slurs. Now one of the attacker’s father is saying that his son couldn’t have committed commit a hate crime because he grew up with gay dads. Juan Lopez said that he raised his son, Juan Carlos Lopez, with his partner of 15 years. “I’m sure 100 percent” that his son and his friends wouldn’t attack anyone...

The men used the app to coax men into sharing their home addresses so they could barge in and rob them. Last year, four men used Grindr to target gay men to rob them. On Monday, the last two of those men were sentenced to prison time. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Anthony Shelton, 20, and Cameron Ajiduah, 19, were sentenced to 20 and 15 years in prison respectively for charges of home invasion for violently robbing gay men...

The man allegedly was calling them 'f****ts' on a busy street in Sydney A Sydney man was hospitalized after his arm was broken in an alleged homophobic attack. Adrian Kalaiziovski and his husband, Kurt Johnson, were getting out of an Uber on Monday night (29 April). They were in the inner-city suburb of Redfern when the man allegedly started hurling abuse at them. ‘He called us faggots for a good 5 minutes and continued to taunt us and antagonise us,’ Johnson wrote...

While LGBTQ representation in Hollywood is slowly but surely getting better, more often than not it’s in independent short films where the real issues are explored. Hold Hands or Hide is a 10-minute film that follows gay couple Adam and Stuart on a night out at a local boozer, but after they show some public affection towards each other they fall victim to a hate crime. It was written and directed by Simon Wegrzyn and stars Rick Yale and Kevin Grogan. “Adam...

Bradley Skinner believes he was the victim of a hate crime and claims his attacker called him a ‘faggot’ A gay man has recounted the vicious attack that landed him in hospital last week. Bradley Skinner, 25, lives in Mackay Region, Northern Queensland, Australia. On Sunday 15 April he was out enjoying dinner with his sister, Amanda. The two had begun their evening with drinks at a bowling club beforehand. ‘I was two bites into my pizza around when this young man...

The victims reportedly met his killer via a personals ad. The alleged killer of a gay man in Spain has been arrested, 18 years after he brutally killed his victim and scrawled “Hitler was right!” in blood on the wall. In 2000, a gay Barcelona man named Vitervo met up with another man he met via a personals ad. Authorities believe the two met at Montgat train station before going out for drinks. They returned to Vitervo’s home, which he shared...

One assailant called him a "f*cking f*ggot," before the trio began punching him. Police in Melbourne are searching for three suspects who viciously attacked a man leaving a gay bar. The 36-year-old victim, identified as Brandon, was leaving Sircuit Bar in late January when the trio followed him. One assailant called him a “fucking faggot,” before the group began punching him. The assault left Brandon with a fractured skull and bruised ribs. He was unable to open one of his eyes...

Here’s another WTF story from the world of online dating (hooking up). According to Kitsap Sun, Christopher Malik “CJ” Longmire, 22, from Kitsap County, Washington, has been charged with three counts of second-degree extortion with sexual motivation and three counts of possession of child pornography. What did he do to deserve it? Well, Longmire would coerce men into sending him explicit videos of themselves after they had already traded photos with him. He threatened to expose their identity and their...

Police have arrested a 14-year-old suspect and believe he was working in a group. More arrests are anticipated. Two men were lured into attacks over the weekend in the Western Netherlands town of Dordrecht after they went to meet up with someone they met on Grindr. While one of the two men was able to flee before being injured, the second was injured so severely he had to be hospitalized. Police believe the men may have been attacked due to their...