Gay man btally beaten by attackers shoutg anti-LGBTQ+ slur - LGBTQ Natn

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• FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR
• ALLEGED GAY MAN ATTACKED AT SOWUTUOM, STABBED MORE THAN SIX TIM
• TWO GAY MEN ATTACKED WH GLASS OBJECT BY MAN SHOUTG ABOUT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HARMG KIDS
• JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED
• GAY MAN ATTACKED DURG PALM SPRGS DATG APP HOOKUP
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
• POLICE SAY VIO PROV GAY MAN BURNED ATTACK ON PREGNANT WOMAN
• OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA
• RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

ALLEGED GAY MAN ATTACKED AT SOWUTUOM, STABBED MORE THAN SIX TIM

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... — 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? He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform. Moore Park was a known hangout for gay men at the time, and the bathrooms were a favored cisg spot.

TWO GAY MEN ATTACKED WH GLASS OBJECT BY MAN SHOUTG ABOUT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HARMG KIDS

Higgbotham quickly realized was not a legimate police operatn, but stead a brazen and public mob attack by uniform police targetg gay men. "Eventually, I unrstood that this was beatg gay people and was beatg gay people wh alumum tncheons and was done by on-duty uniformed police.

"The cliffs surroundg the greater Sydney area NSW were popular wh members of the gay muny lookg to hook up durg the 1970s and '80s. Homophobic groups of men and youth would asslt and often murr gay men, throwg them or forcg them to leap om the cliffs onto the rocks below. As many as 80 gay men were killed the area durg the perd.

"He relled one ocsn where a gay man approached him on the street while Higgbotham was uniform, reportg he had been a victim of gay bashg. The alleged gay man beg attacked. Bystanrs reportedly refed to tervene, claimg that the victim was gay and had liberately gone to the area for a sexual enunter.

JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED

" However, one person behd the mera is also heard sayg, "He is gay. Elrly Gay Activist Asslted by Trans Protters at Vermont Pri Para | Natnal Review.

Jt as Pri Month kicked off the world’s bt-known gayborhood, a young man exhibg signs of mental distrs stalked two gay men the Castro District San Francis and asslted them. 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.

GAY MAN ATTACKED DURG PALM SPRGS DATG APP HOOKUP

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. 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.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

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.

A gay man who vised Palm Sprgs is speakg out after beg btally attacked by someone he met on a datg app. 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. "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.

POLICE SAY VIO PROV GAY MAN BURNED ATTACK ON PREGNANT WOMAN

”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. "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.

OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN

"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 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 ›.

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.

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day. The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime.

VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA

They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said. (MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town.

RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay. "Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said.

Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said.

"The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy. A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct. Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred.