Five gay men were attacked in three separate incidents in Barcelona over the weekend. One of the victims required facial surgery after being assaulted on a beach in the Catalonian city.In the previously mentioned incident, the man was sitting on the beach with his boyfriend and another gay couple when a group of four men approached and started calling them homophobic slurs.
They then began to physically assault them and spit on them. The man who requires surgery suffered a fractured jaw.The Observatory Against Homophobia (OCH) said they were very concerned by the incident and the increasing amount of violence against LGBTQ+ people in Catalonia. “It is a spiral to which we are not accustomed – it is of extreme violence,” Eugeni Rodriguez,.