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Contents:
- STUNT BTALLY BEATEN IRELAND BEE HE IS GAY
- BTAL ATTACK ON GAY SCHOOLBOY, 14, SHOWS HOW SOCIETY IS LURCHG BACKWARDS
- MAN ARRTED AFTER GAY CHOIR MEMBER HURT 'HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK'
- BLD VICTIM OF ALLEGED BEATG SAYS EX'S FAY ATTACKED HIM FOR "TURNG" THEIR SON GAY
- REFUGEE WH ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY SLGHTERS 3 GAY MEN DURG PRI MONTH, BUT ’S TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA?
- ATTACK ON GAY UPLE ROME PROMPTS LLS FOR ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA LAW
STUNT BTALLY BEATEN IRELAND BEE HE IS GAY
A member of a gay choir and his partner are taken to hospal after beg attacked east London. * meath gay attack *
A schoolboy Ireland has been left wh ser facial juri after beg punched and kicked a btal gang attack – simply for beg gay.
The relative told PkNews that the stunt had been “harassed for beg gay” sce his first year at llege, but that this is the first time the harassment beme physil. Varadkar, who is openly gay, went on to say: “I want to send my solidary to the person who was harmed and jured this way.
The shockg attack is said to have happened jt bee the victim is said to be gay and footage of the asslt is now circulatg on social media.
BTAL ATTACK ON GAY SCHOOLBOY, 14, SHOWS HOW SOCIETY IS LURCHG BACKWARDS
Postg the vio on Twter, a man g the nom plume Skippy Dglechalk said: “As far as anyone knows they jt asslted him for beg gay. “They jt hate him e he’s gay and they hate that he is.
The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc.
MAN ARRTED AFTER GAY CHOIR MEMBER HURT 'HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK'
He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village. But never any gays.
“We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń.
Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.
BLD VICTIM OF ALLEGED BEATG SAYS EX'S FAY ATTACKED HIM FOR "TURNG" THEIR SON GAY
Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001.
Bis I knew I’m the ‘only gay the village. In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament.
In 2014, he beme the first openly gay mayor the untry, takg the top learship role the northwt cy of Słupsk. This electn sent Biedroń to the European Parliament, as the first openly gay member om Poland.
REFUGEE WH ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY SLGHTERS 3 GAY MEN DURG PRI MONTH, BUT ’S TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA?
There have been a spate of high-profile hate crim over the last uple of years, om the murr of two gay men Sligo, to btal asslts outsi gay bars.
A gay uple holdg hands.
“What we’ve been seeg through muny reportg and through Gay Communy News (GCN) is that every month there are reports of very ser attacks on members of the LGBT muny. People leavg gay bars, people beg robbed and attacked on the streets. However, Rice also pots out that hate crime legislatn isn’t a silver bullet – more needs to be done to stamp out homophobia and transphobia all across Irish society.
ATTACK ON GAY UPLE ROME PROMPTS LLS FOR ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA LAW
Rice not that credible progrs has been ma Ireland over the last 30 years, om the crimalisatn of homosexualy to marriage equaly and genr regnn – but that don’t mean homophobia has gone away.
The asslt appears to have homophobic unrton as before one attacker throws the first punch the ment ‘You’re gay’ n clearly be heard, and a number of social media posters have allud to the fact that the teen was targeted bee of his sexualy. The realy is that far om gettg “addnal” rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Rsia still stggle to enjoy the same fundamental protectn as everyone else. A stark example of this me three days after Tolstoi’s remarks, when a Mosw jury acquted someone who killed a gay man.