Gay Couple Attacked & Beaten for Cuddling Are Now Afraid to Leave Home
Daily Echo he and Trussler were holding hands and cuddling against the cold when a group of young men approached from across the street yelling homophobic slurs."Three guys crossed the road, saw us cuddling because it was cold and they went in on us,” Miedzwiecki told the outlet. "They started calling us queers, and all that stuff.”Miedzwiecki began recording the encounter with his phone and shouted “how dare you” at the group.
He said one of the men then punched him in the face, and the other two men attacked Trussler when he came to Miedzwiecki’s aid.“They slapped me in the face and pushed me down.
They had me on the floor kicking my face,” Trussler told Pink News, adding that he was knocked unconscious during the attack.“I woke up to my friend telling me to wake up,” Trussler said. “I was spitting blood and I’d cut my tongue and lip open.
I was crying.”Miedzwiecki said he was able to call the police while Trussler was on the pavement being beaten by the assailants.
