The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
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- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- MAN CHARGED WH HATE CRIME AFTER BEATG GAY MAN HE TARGETED ON GRDR, JTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS
- THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
- GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
- GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
- VIO SHOWS MAN PUNCHG 24-YEAR-OLD WHILE MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARKS, NYPD SAYS
- JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED
- OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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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.
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.
MAN CHARGED WH HATE CRIME AFTER BEATG GAY MAN HE TARGETED ON GRDR, JTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS
Ryan Williams, 24, was attacked by Brandon Forrter, 19, near Manchter's Gay Village July 2019. * gay person attacked *
Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement.
THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
This latt cint, which occurred Detro, is one of several across the U.S. and abroad where gay men were targeted on the popular LGBTQ datg app. * gay person attacked *
A gay man Ireland celebratg his birthday wh iends was sent to the hospal followg a vlent homophobic attack early Sunday Sheehan, 26, said he and his iends were on the Number 15 Dubl B around 4 a. The group sat behd Sheehan and his iends and immediately subjected them to antigay slurs like "'queer' 'emo eak' 'f*gg*t' to name a few, " Sheehan wrote a post on Facebook scribg the cint.
An Oregon man was charged wh a feral hate crime Monday after law enforcement said he btally attacked a gay man he targeted on the datg app Andrew McGee, 22, met the victim on the Grdr, a popular datg app the LGBTQ muny, before the two met person on July 5, acrdg to a statement om the U.
GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
Department of Jtice on Jtice Department said McGee beat the man wh a woon club for several mut the victim's apartment Eugene, and that he attempted to kill the man by ntug to strike him the told tectiv he went to the man's apartment bee he believed "mons" would be there, acrdg to an vtigatn by the FBI and Eugene Police Department found that the weeks leadg up to the attack, McGee searched onle for graphic and vlent anti-gay material, cludg vios of anti-gay attacks. McGee's father told a Eugene tective his son liv wh his parents and has tism, acrdg to an a recent siar se, a Texas man was sentenced to over 23 years prison last month for his nnectn to a scheme to lure, rob and asslt gay men g the app.
You n also report vlence anonymoly or ask for a unselor to reach out to you Louis Krss on Twter man sentenced to feral prison:Man acced of lurg and attackg gay men through Grdr appGay uple faced harassment for 5 years:Handwrg analysis led to a spect, who turned out to be a neighbor. Spanish police have arrted three people nnectn wh the killg of a young gay man whose ath a possible homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the untry and sparked natnwi Luiz, a 24-year-old nursg assistant, was out wh iends the Galician cy of A Coña the early hours of Saturday when an argument started outsi a iends told El Mundo that Luiz had stepped out of the club to make a vio ll when two passersby acced him of tryg to film them on his phone. ”José Miñon, the central ernment’s legate Galicia, said police were examg whether the attack was motivated by homophobia, addg that the vtigatn was at a ccial stage.
GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
(SWNS)A gay man who was knocked unnsc a homophobic attack has spoken out after his attacker was spared jail and hand a spend Williams was wh a group of iends when he was acsted by a group of thugs and told “gay is wrong” and “you all need to die” 24-year-old was beaten until he lost nscns and was left unable to sleep for months after the attack, which happened as he walked home om work near Manchter’s Gay Village July 2019.
(SWNS)He urged people to speak out if they had been through siar cints, addg: “People thk homophobia isn’t an issue anymore, but thgs like this are still happeng to people jt bee of who they are. ”The urt heard that Williams was wh a iend when they were acsted and subjected to a barrage of sults and homophobic slurs before beg was left unnsc and said he only remembers wakg up the hospal to the sound of his mother speakg to was left wh srs to his face, lips and eyebrows and said doctors told him if he had been punched jt two ch higher he may have died om his juri.
"The allegatns are that social media ntacts were ed to target, ntact, rob, fatally shoot one gay man and serly wound another gay man, " Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said a statement. In May of this year, two Dallas men were charged by a feral grand jury wh "nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg" after lurg ne gay men through the popular app to an apartment plex and subsequently kidnappg, sexually assltg and robbg them. "The dictment further alleg that Jenks and Henry ed bodily jury to four victims bee of their actual and perceived sexual orientatn, " a Jtice Department statement year, followg a siar cint, thori charged four men wh feral hate crim for a seri of North Texas asslts and robberi after they posed as gay and manipulated victims to divulgg their home addrs via the app 2017.
VIO SHOWS MAN PUNCHG 24-YEAR-OLD WHILE MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARKS, NYPD SAYS
The men, whose ag ranged om 19 to 21, were sentenced to between 10 and 20 years prison for breakg to victims' hom, tyg them up wh tape, physilly assltg them and yellg gay slurs at them. Perhaps one of the most well-known gay datg-app predators is Stephen Port — a man dubbed "The Grdr Killer" — who was sentenced to life prison 2016 for dggg, rapg and killg four men he met through the app.
JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED
“There are people impersonatg romantic partners and iends untri where beg gay is illegal, then threateng to out the er, ” said Ian Holloway, an assistant profsor of social welfare the Universy of California, Los Angel, Lk School of Public 2018, there were wispread reports of Egyptian thori and rints who ed gay datg apps to entrap and persecute gay men. Police are lookg for a man who punched a 24-year-old and hurled homophobic slurs at him at a New York Cy dg store over the cint happened Saturday the entrance of a CVS on 34th Street, right outsi of Penn Statn. The Rsian journalist who unvered the horrific kidnappgs, tentns, and torture of gay men Chechnya was attacked while visg the southern Rsian republic.
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.
OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN
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.
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