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A 21-year-old man with autism was raped in the bathroom stall of the gay-owned Atlanta restaurant No Mas Cantina. The unnamed man was getting ready for his shift at 2pm earlier this week when a man charged into the bathroom and forced himself on the man, pulling off his pants. The victim’s father shared with WSB-TV Atlanta that management didn’t initially call the police after the incident. The father didn’t know what had happened until his son called him...

Attacker assaulted victim for 15-20 minutes and then forced him to beg for an ambulance A 29-year-old man in Kent, England, has pleaded guilty to a violent assault on a gay man. It ended with him taunting the man and making him beg to call for an ambulance. Luke Pope, of Douglas Avenue, Whitstable, shared a taxi with the victim after leaving a nightclub in Ashford, Kent, on 2 February. After being dropped off, he began his attack, knocking the victim to...

"He was trying to make it look like I left the stove on. But who gets up 2am and fixes " Two men have been charged with burglary, grand theft, and arson after trying to set a mutual ex-boyfriend’s house ablaze with a washcloth and a can of spaghetti sauce. Early Tuesday morning, John Silva and Derrick Irving allegedly broke into the Orlando house of a man they’d both dated, reports Click Orlando. He wasn’t home so the pair heated up...

"All of a sudden I felt something hit my face, and then my head hit against the locker." A Oklahoma teen says a classmate smashed his face into a locker because he was gay. Cell-phone video captured the gruesome incident, which happened in full view of classmates at Highland West High School. “All of a sudden I felt something hit my face, and then my head hit against the locker,” says the victim, a seventh-grader named Blake. He sclaims the boy...

Me’Shach Israel-Miller posted on Grindr that he would murder "85 f*ggots at a gay club." A Columbus, Ohio, man has been arrested after threatening to kill dozens of people at a local gay bar. Police say Me’Shach Israel-Miller posted that he would murder “85 faggots at a gay club” while chatting with Montrese Hollar on Grindr. Hollar took a screenshot of Miller’s threat and contacted authorities. “His response… was completely off the wall,” says Hollar. “When he mentioned 85 in...

On May 22, 2015, James William Hill III, approached a co-worker at an Amazon fulfillment center in Chester, VA and began to punch him repeatedly in the face. The victim, who was only referred to as ‘C.T.’ in reports, suffered a black eye, bloody nose, and other injuries to the face. On that day, Hill was questioned by the human resource department and he was open about saying that he “felt disrespected by C.T. because C.T. was a homosexual; that...

A Fort Bliss soldier says he’s the victim of a hate crime. 1st Sgt. Charles William Davis II has spent 19 years in service with the U.S. Army and is currently stationed at Fort Bliss. "I've been to Bosnia, I've been to Iraq and I've been to Afghanistan three times,” he said. Unfortunately, Davis recently experienced what he believes to be a hate crime while in celebration in town. Davis gave KFOX14 his first hand account of the situation. He says he was out...

“This is malice. This is sadistic." A prisoner in Colorado was repeatedly raped as corrections officers did nothing, according to a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The unnamed inmate, who is gay, was terrorized by his cellmate at ADX Florence and mocked by guards when he revealed the abuse. In August 2014, members of a prison gang called The Boys began threatening the 21-year-old and accusing him of being gay. The gang told him they would attack him...

'We bow before a wonderful person': LGBTI activists pay tribute to a hero A gay victim who became a hero against homophobia, anti-Semitism and the Nazis has died at 99 years old. Wolfgang Lauinger, who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime, was like many gay people locked up in concentration camps. Instead of being freed, he continued to be in prison for his sexuality until 1951. Lauinger was a tireless campaigner against Paragraph 175, which banned gay sex from 1871 to 1994. Arrested for...

After a night of dancing, Argentinian rugby player Jonathan Castellari was out picking up breakfast in Buenos Aires last week with his friend Sebastian. While waiting for their order, a group of 8 drunk men between the ages of 20-25 approached the two after laughing and mocking them with effeminate gestures. The group is thought to have been provoked by Castellari’s shirt that read Hetero el que lee (Hetero if you can read). Castellari and Sebastian felt uncomfortable so...

Two 16-year-olds arrested after teen in London is strangled and forced to apologize for being gay Police in London say that they have arrested two 16-year-old boys following an assault on a gay 19-year-old on a tube train on the Jubilee Line. The incident happened 21 October. The victim was wearing fancy dress and travelling with friends to an event. The altercation occurred on a westbound Jubilee Line tube train between West Ham and North Greenwich stations. The assailants boarded the train at...

The Attacker Claims He Was Punishing The Victim For Lying About His Age! This story is a complete nightmare. Can we all be honest for a moment? I’m not mathematician, but I’d be willing to bet probably 80% of LGBTQ men have met someone off the Internet by this point in our lives. I recall getting access to America Online chatrooms before I hit ten-years-old. My mother would scold me to not even talk to strangers or give out personal...

Two men have been imprisoned for blackmailing a man out of more than £3000 so that they would keep his sexuality secret. Michael Rose, 20 and Elliot Haynes, 19, who live in Portsmouth, subjected their victim to a series of taunts and threats in a bid to extract £3600 from their victim in order to keep his sexuality quiet. Messages were sent over Facebook to the victim, which branded him a “sick paedophile”, reports The Plymouth Herald. The victim was allegedly accepting...

"Maybe it has to do with exerting masculinity." Charlie Carver has opened up about his experiencing of sexual harassment during his career, saying he hopes to “open up a discussion about men and power dynamics” with Hollywood. As the entertainment industry continues to deal with the fallout of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, which has seen numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape against the American producer by leading actresses, several high-profile actors have also come forward with their own...