Max is one of the young gay men Germany who's been stalked and harassed for months on end. He's still wag to see jtice.
Contents:
- STALKG, DEATH THREATS, A STOLEN INTY: THIS TEENAGER WAS TARGETED FOR BEG GAY
- A TE GAY CRIME STORY I WOULDN’T BELIEVE IF I HADN’T LIVED IT
- THE EXTCTN OF GAY INTY
- “PRCE CHARMG” IS A HAPPILY MARRIED, GAY, INTY THEFT VICTIM
STALKG, DEATH THREATS, A STOLEN INTY: THIS TEENAGER WAS TARGETED FOR BEG GAY
* gay stolen identity *
All the victims are young gay men like German Feral Mistry of the Interr registered 313 vlent hate crim agast LGBT people Germany 2018. Max’s se exemplifi how difficult is to pe an aggrsive stalker, pecially on the ter, how powerful anti-gay persecutn Germany still is, and how long tak for s victims to fally see jtice.
“The biggt difference between me and the majory is that I’m gay, ” he, January 2016, an acquatance sent Max a msage about an acunt on Facebook pretendg to be him. Eventually, strangers would show up at Max’s hoe and school, mandg the goods Max had allegedly sold the time, Max wasn’t out to everyone his life as gay.
He ed a photo of Max photoshopped wh text sayg he was gay and posted unrneath fay photos on Facebook. He was te to his word: In March, posters wh Max’s photo showed up near his school the cy center wh the ptn, all ps, “Ja ich b schwul, und das ist ch gut so” (“Y I am gay and that is a good thg”).
A TE GAY CRIME STORY I WOULDN’T BELIEVE IF I HADN’T LIVED IT
Beg gay, makg history. * gay stolen identity *
“It was dumb of me to feel safe there jt bee I was among other gay people, ” Max lol LGBT and unselg experts BuzzFeed News spoke wh were already faiar wh the se, thanks to earlier media and police reports. ”“The attacks — pecially the se of gay people — often take place spac that are actually thought of as safe, ” Bastian Fke, head of the anti–gay vlence project Maneo, wrote an email to BuzzFeed News. A msage on the entrance of a fancy clothg store read, “If you are racist, sexist, homophobic, or an asshole … don’t e .
THE EXTCTN OF GAY INTY
Knowg that someone is out there potentially phg young gay people to kill themselv and that this is still gog on the 21st century mak you qutn our society.
“PRCE CHARMG” IS A HAPPILY MARRIED, GAY, INTY THEFT VICTIM
Never say the gays aren’t pneers!