Contents:
- HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
- A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
- ‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
A teenager who was horrifilly tortured after meetg someone on gay datg app Grdr has reunted the oral as he prs for hate crime Whe, then 18, was throttled, had his wrists cut and neck sliced a bathtub of bloody water June 2020.
The attack happened when he met Chance Sene, 19, for a first date, he, who is om Louisiana and is openly gay, was physilly srred for life. —Warng: This report ntas graphic and upsettg tails—Whe and Sene met on Grdr, which is primarily ed by gay and bisexual men, and had been msagg for about a month before meetg up at Sene's home. Lafayette Police Department said they are not vtigatg the cint as a hate crime, but Whe and his fay say the attack was homophobilly pot to a Facebook acunt, purportedly belongg to Sene, that featur a profile picture of Jefey Dahmer, the nnibal serial killer who murred 16 men and boys om 1978 to 1991, as evince.
A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
Rayette Gaspard said her son was a "good kid, " addg: "He stands for the gay Pri thg, he's won all sorts of trophi for actg, he's a good kid, he don't do dgs.
"Instead, he chose to do somethg to someone who's gay and proud about his sexualy. He went on an app signated for gay people. He chose to choose someone who is gay and very proud of his sexualy.
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‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
The tle of the movie, "Moffie, " is a homophobic slur Aikaans. Later the story, Dylan vanish whout explanatn, and Nicholas fears that he's been sent to the notor Ward 22, where gay men are mored to be sent for aversn approach another soldier who's been to Ward 22 and asks if he's heard anythg about Dylan.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I hope for his sake that he's "Moffie" was directed and -wrten by Oliver Herman, a gay, biracial filmmaker who has ma several dramas about vlence and reprsn South Ain society, though this is his first film set durg apartheid. He's said terviews that while he was ially reluctant to tell a story about this era om the perspective of whe men, he saw an opportuny to nont apartheid's culture of hypermasculy and s vastatg impact on gay South Ains.
Herman is also well aware of the latent homoeroticism this thlsly homophobic culture, and he floods "Moffie" wh feverishly betiful imagery of mcular young men at work and at play.