The two men, identified as Mickaël and Benoît, attended a club on the French island with Benoît’s brother, sister, and sister-in-law when the attack took place.
After the couple danced together, a group of homophobes aged 15-20 confronted them and hurled anti-gay slurs. According to French-language gay publication Têtu, one of the homophobes showed Mickaël a picture of “someone pissing on a rainbow flag.” Mickaël said: “I stay very calm and tell him that I am gay myself.
At that moment he takes out his cross and tells me that it ‘is against nature.'” When Mickaël and Benoît left the club for fresh air, the group followed them and launched their attack. “That’s when things went nuts,” said Mickaël. “I had five punches before I got stuck