We round up mors om Michael Stto of HoopsHype on P.J. Tucker, Rudy Gay, and more.
Contents:
- GAY HUNTERS: HOW CRIMAL GANGS LURE MEN ON DATG APPS BEFORE EXTORTG SH AND BEATG THEM
- STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
- A GAY DATG APP IS HELPG TO HOE QUEER PEOPLE FLEEG UKRAE
- RSIAN GAY DATG APP V: WE'VE BEEN BLOCKED JT DAYS BEFORE WTER OLYMPICS
GAY HUNTERS: HOW CRIMAL GANGS LURE MEN ON DATG APPS BEFORE EXTORTG SH AND BEATG THEM
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STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
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Handsome young men entrap unwtg victims on datg apps and other gay s. While an unwele remr of the difficulti of beg gay Rsia, the cints are not an entirely new phenomenon — or even the worst exampl of homophobia.
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Chechnya asi, the peak of anti-gay vlence Rsia me about four years ago, when groups led by the natnalist Maxim Martskevich (aka “The Hatchet”) entrapped, beat and huiated dozens of gay men on mera. Martskevich and his “Occupy Pedophilia” gang operated on the heels of the Kreml’s 2013 famo anti-gay Martskevich and his crew were always ls ncerned wh money than wh servg a warped iology. When ’s clear homophobic crim are at play, the state do everythg to avoid prosecutnIgor Kochetkov, Rsian LGBT NetworkThat do not mean there have not been victims of vlence.
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