Journalist Who Unvered Chechnya's Anti-Gay Purge Attacked

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
• OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN
• JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED
• MOB RVED “FA***T” TO GAY MAN’S BUTTOCKS BLOODY ATTACK
• GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG
• TWO GAY MEN BTALLY ATTACKED BY GANG OF TEN HOMOPHOBIC TEENS
• BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK: MAN HANDS HIMSELF AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT
• HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS

A GoFundMe page has been created for a gay man Florida who was left wh multiple juri and mountg medil expens after he was btally attacked by two men yellg antigay slurs earlier this Breinbach was walkg home Conut Grove Miami on the eveng of July 8 when he was attacked. Tom Holland’s fans are fendg him agast homophobic backlash after he appeared a sex scene wh another man the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri “The Crowd Room.

”After the episo aired over the weekend, homophobic viewers h Twter to pla about the Marvel star’s scene, postg a lany of bigoted tweets wh the hashtag “NotMySpirman. — Theo Foxx (@FoxxDoThgs) July 14, 2023throwg love at tom holland, bee my man do not serve the homophobia that's beg thrown his way rn — pla ? || is gog to afhf & eras tour (@lilysdreamworld) July 15, 2023The homophobia directed at Tom Holland is sickeng, pathetic, and utterly unsurprisg.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

Pl Dawks (@Pl__Dawks) July 16, 2023The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is...

— Lee (@lee_g_b) July 17, 2023the homophobia towards tom holland’s role is very awful to see!!

— ⑅ j (@purwntr) July 15, 2023Many of his fans also seemed perplexed over the backlash, nsirg that former “Spir-Man” actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have each portrayed gay characters as homophobia spewg om ic book fans bee Tom Holland played a character on TV while simultaneoly puttg the other two Spiys on a pestal as if they haven't done gay scen before too is somethg. — will (@lluoh) July 15, 2023Y'all realize every other spirman has done gay rol too, right?

CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS

Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month.

The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom. ”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg.

OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN

Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood.

JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED

His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. Image source, CrimtoppersImage ptn, Detectiv are lookg for masked men seen on a motorbikeA £2, 000 reward has been offered for rmatn about "abhorrent" attacks on a shop Manchter's Gay Village. The bike was also ed three prev attacks, Crimtoppers anisatn said was a distctive red/orange off-road style GASGAS bike, which was thought to have been ed durg attacks at the store on 2 March, 13 April and 24 ptn, Clonezone Manchter scrib self as a "gay superstore"The chary has offered up to £2, 000 for rmatn that leads to the arrt and nvictn of those volved the attacks.

MOB RVED “FA***T” TO GAY MAN’S BUTTOCKS BLOODY ATTACK

Regnal manager for the North Wt, Gary Murray, said Manchter was "renowned for many thgs, cludg s diversy and world-famo Gay Village".

An Oregon man has been charged wh a feral hate crime after g the ter to target and btally asslt a gay man bee of his sexual orientatn.

Acrdg to urt documents, McGee and his victim met g Grdr, a social media and workg applitn signed for, and ed primarily by, gay men.

GAY UPLE BEATEN BY GANG OF 20 MEN AS DOZENS STOOD BY AND DID NOTHG

Further vtigatn revealed that, the weeks leadg up to the attack, McGee ed the ter to search for and view graphilly vlent anti-gay material, cludg vios of anti-gay attacks. 27, 1978, Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and a proment gay figure at the time, was assassated by polil opponent Dan Whe.

Whe also shot and killed San Francis Mayor Gee was one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat and beme an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ liberatn. Cmpley, a former trans police officer, began an armed rampage the New York Cy neighborhood, gunng down two outsi a li before openg fire on a crowd gathered ont of Sneakers, a gay bar. The attack, which Cmpley admted was a targeted asslt on the gay muny, ultimately left two ad and jured six more.

Mathew Shepard murrIn early October 1998, Mathew Shepard, a gay teen Laramie, Wyomg, was btally attacked and tied to a fence.

TWO GAY MEN BTALLY ATTACKED BY GANG OF TEN HOMOPHOBIC TEENS

He met attackers Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney at a gay bar. ”Backstreet Cafe shootgIn September 2000, a man opened fire at the Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar  Roanoke, Virgia.

BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK: MAN HANDS HIMSELF AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT

Assailant Ronald Gay had gone to another bar and asked where the neart gay bar was, police later said.

The Rsian journalist who unvered the horrific kidnappgs, tentns, and torture of gay men Chechnya was attacked while visg the southern Rsian republic.

HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN

Milasha also faced tense backlash and threats 2017 after first breakg the news of the Chechen ernment’s crackdown on men and women who were eher gay or genr-nonnformg the Mlim-majory regn of the Cc. Milasha ially reported on more than 100 Chechens — primarily gay men — who were arrted and taed makhift prisons and ncentratn mps, where they were often subjected to torture and asked to name other people whom they knew to be gay. Authori would typilly seize the men’s phon to track their nversatns and e the ntact rmatn to arrt and torture other gay men or LGBTQ dividuals.

Upon beg released, survivors of the makhift tentn centers reported that thori enuraged their fai to take matters to their own hands and perform “honor killgs” of relativ spected to be gay. Chechen thori have lghgly nied the tentns, phg back agast wispread reportg, wh Kadyrov assertg that there were no gay people Chechnya.

He add that if any gay men were Chechnya, they should leave the regn, and a directed a spokperson to subtly endorse “honor killgs” of men spected to be gay. A 20-year-old gay man was attacked by eight people who rved a slur on his body wh a knife a btal attack that police are vtigatg as a hate crime. Related: Gay man beaten to ath by homophobic mob as crowd cheered the attackers.