Gay man killed, another crilly jured Grdr meetup

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• MAN CHARGED WH HATE CRIME AFTER BEATG GAY MAN HE TARGETED ON GRDR, JTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS
• 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
• FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• TWO GAY MEN BTALLY ATTACKED BY GANG OF TEN HOMOPHOBIC TEENS
• TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
• THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
• POLICE SAY VIO PROV GAY MAN BURNED ATTACK ON PREGNANT WOMAN
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
• VIO SHOWS MAN PUNCHG 24-YEAR-OLD WHILE MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARKS, NYPD SAYS
• EXCLIVE: 2 GAY MEN WHO WERE VICTIMS OF BIAS ATTACK SHARG THEIR STORY
• GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE
• JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED

MAN CHARGED WH HATE CRIME AFTER BEATG GAY MAN HE TARGETED ON GRDR, JTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS

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. 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.

OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN

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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. A gay gby player was left wh a shattered ankle and a dangero eye jury followg a homophobic attack Dubl on April 10 this year.

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. 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.

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.

FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS

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.

Police England have arrted two men for a btal attack on a gay universy stunt that took place Liverpool last Benson, 24, origally om Belfast, Ireland, but attendg Liverpool Hope Universy, was btally asslted by three men as he walked home on Bold Street the early morng hours last Saturday, July 10. "'Faggot gay cunt' was what I heard before four men asslted me Liverpool not far om where someone died a siar attack, " Benson posted to Twter posted to Instagram that he was out celebratg the end of studi for the summer when the asslt occurred.

""Only faggots would say 'love, '" Benson relled the man man grew creasgly agated when Benson revealed he was gay, then threw a punch when Benson fally told the homophobic man to "fuck off. "RELATED | Man Tri to Kill & Gouge Out Ey of a Stranger He Thought Was Gay.

GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR

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.

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

But Breinbach poted to recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn and rhetoric as embolng homophob and creasg the risk of vlence agast LGBTQ+ people.

Florida ernor and Republin printial ndidate Ron DeSantis has signed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ laws recent years, cludg the state’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law and several laws specifilly targetg transgenr youth. 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. 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...

TWO GAY MEN BTALLY ATTACKED BY GANG OF TEN HOMOPHOBIC TEENS

— 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?

TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN

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. 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. Group of approximately 10 teenaged boys and girls btally attacked two gay men a parkg lot England this past weekend, leavg one man unnsc and both wh multiple actur to the face along wh other ser juri.

The group ed homophobic language before engagg an unprovoked btal asslt on the 22-year-old victim was knocked unnsc and suffered multiple actur to his cheek, nose, and eye socket.

A group of approximately ten teenaged boys and girls btally attacked two gay men the parkg lot England this past weekend, leavg one man unnsc and both wh multiple actur to the face along wh other ser juri. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe man, Daniel Jenks, was part of a group that ed the app Grdr to lure gay men to an apartment plex Dallas to rob and asslt them, prosecutors said.

THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

20, 2021A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years feral prison on Wednday for his nnectn a scheme that ed the popular datg app Grdr to target gay men for vlent hate crim, prosecutors County's Sheriff's DepartmentThe man, Daniel Jenks, 22, of Dallas, plead guilty June to one unt of nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg, rjackg, one hate crime unt and one unt of g a firearm durg and relatn to a crime of vlence, the Department of Jtice said a Jenks was the last of four fendants to be sentenced the nspiracy that ed Grdr, a social media app that is ed primarily by gay men.

“This fendant targeted nocent victims for vlent crim simply bee he believed they were gay, ” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Jtice Department’s Civil Rights Divisn said the statement. Jenks admted, acrdg to prosecutors, that he and others “lured multiple victims” to an apartment plex, poted a handgun at them, robbed them of their belonggs and asslted them, jurg one of Jenks told vtigators that members of his group ed gay slurs and tnted the victims and that one member attempted to sexually asslt one of the victims, the Department of Jtice said.

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. Demonstrators rried signs wh slogans cludg “Your homophobia is killg ”.

POLICE SAY VIO PROV GAY MAN BURNED ATTACK ON PREGNANT WOMAN

”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. “We are beg abed and murred for beg LGBTI, ” the State Feratn of Lbians, Gays and Bisexuals said a statement on Twter.

Police San Diego say a gay man who claimed he was burned an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime received the juri while assltg a pregnant woman so severely left her bleedg om multiple juri and requirg hospalizatn. June 12 when he heard antigay slurs directed at him.

Arrt Ma After Alleged SF Attack ›Gay Man Btally Beaten by Stranger on Manhattan Street Hate Crime ›Texas Boutique Owner Arrted and Charged Wh Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crime ›.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

Pri Month is off to a vlent start, acrdg to the first week of June, the killgs of two gay men and a transgenred woman Detro and a gay man outsi Atlanta have highlighted an alarmg uptick attacks agast LGBTQ people and hate crim general, activists say.

VIO SHOWS MAN PUNCHG 24-YEAR-OLD WHILE MAKG ANTI-GAY REMARKS, NYPD SAYS

"Chynal Ldsay was found ad Dallas on Saturday, June 1, Dallas Police DepartmentOn Thursday, 18-year-old Devon Robson was charged nnectn wh the May 25th fatal shootg of three people a home east Detro: two gay men Alunte Davis, 21, Timothy Blancher, 20, and a transgenr woman, Paris Cameron, 20. On Tuday, Ronald Peters, a 28-year-old gay man was shot and killed Detur, Geia on his way to work, acrdg to The Atlanta Journal-Constutn. Geia Equaly's Graham noted that visibily for the LGBTQ muny is pecially high this month, particularly bee the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts agast a police raid of an inic gay bar is on June 28.

Dpe the progrs agast homophobia on many onts, "amidst all the good, there tends to be a backlash, " Graham said. A Detro man has been charged an attempted robbery and shootg that left one gay man ad and another crilly jured. The cint is the latt a strg of attacks agast gay men targeted through a popular LGBTQ datg app.

EXCLIVE: 2 GAY MEN WHO WERE VICTIMS OF BIAS ATTACK SHARG THEIR STORY

"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.

”Gay men are routely targeted on datg apps like Grdr, where privacy and safety ncerns abound.

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.

GAY MAN LEFT 'DISGTED' AFTER HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKER IS HAND SPEND SENTENCE

"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. 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.

"This is why we see a rise hate crim durg Pri Month and creas of hate crim 'gay-iendly' neighborhoods, " Coston said. “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.

"For people livg the areas or untri where homosexualy is crimalized, apps n be a way to build muny. 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.

JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED

ByEyewns News NEW YORK (WABC) -- Two gay men who were victims of a bias attack are sharg their story to prove they will not live fear, even though their attackers are on the loose.

"They were like, look at this ***** ****** and homophobic slurs such as that, " Vuton those tnts beme vlent. "I had a bise the other day, " he attack has exhsted Vuton, 22, who is openly gay. Ryan Williams was subjected to a homophobic attack while on his way home om work near Manchter's Gay Village.