Hate crime
Homophobia
Gay Bashed In Perth, Man Recalls Feeling ‘Overwhelming Terror’
Fifty-seven year Perth-resident Michael Buhle remembers the first words he heard when he reached an under construction building site and was met by three men swinging baseball bats. “The first guy said, ‘we are going to teach you a lesson’,” Buhle told Star Observer in an email interview, recovering from the vicious homophobic attack that left him with a broken jaw, fractured skull and fearing for his life. Buhle, was one of the two men in Perth, who were lured by through the online dating app Scruff to an under construction site and then brutally attacked last month.