Tag: violence

US Representative Sean Patrick Maloney introduced the LGBT PRIDE Act today – a year after the deadly shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. The bill is seeks to improve data collection on the sexual orientation and gender identity of victims of violent crimes. Many of the 49 victims at Pulse were gay. ‘Pulse wasn’t an isolated occurrence,’ says Maloney, New York’s first openly gay member of Congress. ‘Anti-LGBTQ violence is way too common – it happens when a transwoman of color is gunned down...

Two teenagers have been jailed over a shocking homophobic attack on two gay men. 18-year-old Gage Vye-Parminter and 19-year-old Matthew Howes were sentenced to five years and four months in a young offender institution today at Brighton Crown Court. The pair were found guilty over a homophobic attack on Brighton seafront on May 2 year. The victims, a 22 and 24-year-old man, said the pair followed them along the seafront shouting homophobic insults before their shocking attack. The 22-year old man sustained fractured...

Porn star could face up to several years in jail for battery family violence A gay porn star was arrested after beating up his boyfriend for watching gay porn. Jared Louis Valezquez, a 31-year-old best known as Tyce Jax and has starred in films for Raging Stallion and Next Door Ebony, is on probation for beating, choking and pulling a knife on his partner Bobby Hamill in their duplex in Atlanta. Valezquez has been arrested on domestic violence charges five times before. The...

Me and my boyfriend had been arguing a lot about stupid stuff and recently one got very heated very quickly and resulted in him pushing me very hard. I fell over and banged my head. He said sorry immediately and was very upset at what he had done, telling me over and over again he didn’t mean to and that he was truly sorry and it would never happen again. I accepted the apology and we didn’t argue for a...

I cheered when some of my friends on Facebook were booking their flights to San Francisco and Folsom Street Fair. When friends stated they were going to Southern Decadence in New Orleans I told them be careful and be safe.  Was my cheers and warnings backwards? What was supposed to be a weekend of revelry and excitement for two friends in town for San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair turned ugly Saturday night when five assailants attacked the men with pepper...