Tag: Anti-Gay

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  • Possible Homophobic Murder Puts Russia’s Gay Community On Edge

    A man has been killed in what is being reported as a possible homophobic attack in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, early on Friday morning.

    The 23-year-old man who has not yet been named was found dead in the courtyard of an apartment building. His wounds included multiple stab wounds including some in the genital area, the federal Investigative Committee said on Saturday.

    Reuters is reporting that, a 22-year-old acquaintance of the victim and a 27-year-old ex-convict had been detained on suspicion of murder.

    Andrei Gapchenko, who is investigating the killing, said the victim had been drinking with the two men – who then attacked him after revealing his sexuality.

    Leading gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev said a bill to outlaw spreading “homosexual propaganda” among minors, given preliminary approval by parliament in January, would make Russians less likely to fear consequences for attacking gays.

    “This monstrous incident in Volgograd demonstrates the fruits of the homophobic policy that is being conducted in this country, including the initiative to ban homosexual propaganda,” Interfax news agency quoted Alexeyev as saying.

  • Troll Tells Duncan James “I Hope You Get AIDS And Die”

    Blue frontman Duncan James has spoken out about some of the homophobia he’s endured after ITV aired The Big Reunion.

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  • Reports Of Homophobic Crime Drop In London from 2012 to 2013

    Figures released by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the UK’s biggest police force, show that reports of crimes that are perceived as homophobic, either ‘by the victim or any other person’ are down 12.7% in the last 12 months.

    In total 1,103 homophobic crimes were reported to the MPS in the 12 months up to March 2013, whilst the year before 1,264 crimes were reported.

    Of the 32 boroughs policed by the MPS, 12 reported an increase in reported homophobic crimes, with Enfield observing the biggest increase in reports. Nineteen boroughs had lower reportages and Ealing had exactly the same number of reports as the previous year.

    An Enfield Council Spokesperson said:

    “Enfield Council works closely with the police and the local community to deal with hate crime against the LGBT community and works tirelessly to create an environment where people affected by homophobic hate crime feel confident enough to report what has happened to them in a supportive environment.

    “While the number of homophobic crimes reported in Enfield this year remains extremely low, thanks to our extensive work with the police in this area, we have seen a significant increase in confidence amongst the LGBT community and consequently the number of reports of homophobic hate crime have increased.

    “Enfield Safer and Stronger Communities Board have a number of initiatives in place to engage with and support the LGBT community including our hate crime strategy, Enfield Council also funds the LGBT Network to help provide support for the community work it does and we have run a number of successful initiatives to improve tolerance and community cohesion amongst all our communities.”

    Overall crime is down in London by 6% and the MPS Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: “Crime is down by 6%. This includes some excellent performance across London, with serious youth violence down by 28%, gun crime down 20%. Robberies are down by over 10% and 1000 gang members are in prison or under judicial restriction.

    “These are very significant numbers that have been achieved against a backdrop of substantial operational challenges to the Metropolitan Police such as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the London Olympics and Paralympic Games. All of this has been done whilst also saving money.

    “I hope the people of London will be proud of the Met’s achievements.”

    You can take a look at your borough’s crime rates at:http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures

  • The Shocking Face Of Homophobia In France

    A gay couple in France were beaten unconscious in Paris on Saturday night in a shocking homophobic bashing.

    Posting this gruesome picture on Facebook, Wilfred de Brujin said on Facebook that he and his boyfriend Olivier were beaten so badly he lost a tooth, suffered broken bones and two black eyes. He was targeted on Saturday night because they were walking arm in arm.

    The picture was posted on Mr. De Brujin’s Facebook.

    He said: ‘Sorry to show you this,

    ‘It’s the face of homophobia. Last night 19th arrondissement, Paris, Olivier and I were badly beaten just for walking arm in arm.

    ‘I woke up in an ambulance covered in blood, missing tooth and broken bones around the eye.

    I’m home now. Very sad.’

    The President of gay rights group SOS Homophobie, Elizabeth Ronzier, told The Local:

    ‘This was a shocking and incredibly violent incident. We have seen a 30% rise in the number of homophobic incidents since October.

    ‘This is a result of the opposition towards the gay marriage bill,’ she added. ‘These people say they are not homophobic but they are. Homophobia has become trivialized [sic], which is proved by the number of verbal assaults on gay people, which often to lead to physical assaults.’

    Representatives from La Manif Pour Tous condemned the attack and groups like SOS Homophobie saying:

    ‘Groups like SOS Homophobia should be ashamed for trying to blame us for these acts,”

    Xavier Bongibault, one of the movement’s leaders told The Local on Monday.

    ‘We strongly condemn this act of violence but there is no link whatsoever to the Manif pour Tous. We have said since the beginning that we are not against homosexuals, we are simply against the government’s legislation.’said Bongibault, who himself is gay.

    The savage beaten comes just over fortnight after the anti-gay marriage campaigning group, La Manif Pour Tous held a demonstration in France’s capital city protesting the rights of gay people to marry.

    The Local states that gay-rights groups are set to hold a protest on 10th April 2013 in response to the attack against Mr De Brujin

  • ATM Goes Homophobic In Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico ATM Prints Anti-Gay Receipt.

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  • PARIS HILTON Gay Guys “They’re Disgusting… Most Of Them Probably Have AIDS”

    Radoronline.com are reporting that Paris Hilton has been caught on tape making homophobic remarks about homosexual men who use the mobile phone App Grindr.

    The site has the recording currently available for streaming of a conversation that reportedly takes place between Paris and a gay friend in a cab ride.

    The male friend said:

    “Say I log into Grindr, someone that’s on Grindr can be in that building and it tells you all the locations of where they are and you can be like, ‘Yo, you wanna f**k?’ and he might be on like, the sixth floor,”

    “Ewww. Eww. To get f**ked? Gay guys are the horniest people in the world,” Paris is heard saying.

    “They’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS.”

    The cab driver who recorded the conversation between the male model and the heiress said:

    “I couldn’t believe what was coming out of Paris’ mouth and the way she was talking about gay men.”

    During the 50 second clip, Paris is also heard to say:

    “I would be so scared if I were a gay guy,” Paris says.

    “You’ll like, die of AIDS.”

    When RadarOnline.com asked Paris Hilton’s spokesperson for a comment tell were told:

    “Paris Hilton’s comments were to express that it is dangerous for anyone to have unprotected sex that could lead to a life threatening disease. The conversation became heated, after a close gay friend told her in a cab ride, a story about a gay man who has AIDS and is knowingly having unprotected sex. He also discussed a website that encourages random sex by gay men with strangers. As she was being shown the website her comments were in reference to those people promoting themselves on the site. The cab driver who recorded this, only provided a portion of the conversation. It was not her intent to make any derogatory comments about all gays. Paris Hilton is a huge supporter of the gay community and would never purposefully make any negative statements about anyone’s sexual orientation.”

     

    You can hear the audio at http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/09/paris-hilton-blasts-gay-men-aids-audio-recordings

    UPDATE:

    Perez Hilton has waded into the conversation – and has taken to his blog site to state that: ‘Paris reached out to us to EXCLUSIVELY share her side of the story.”

    The report goes on to say:

    “Our insider explained to us that this convo was recorded while Paris and her GAY friends were taking a cab during Fashion’s Night Out. While the source concedes that she and her pals were “obviously wasted,” the source explains that Paris’ friends were actually just concerned about a friend of theirs in Spain who knowingly has AIDS, but still has unprotected sex with people and doesn’t tell them! When Paris’ pals went on to share that this Spanish friend was also actively seeking sexual partners online for unprotected sex, that’s when the comments of these types of actions being “gross” and “disgusting” came into play. According to our insider, Paris’ comments were directed towards one reckless individual, not the community at large.

    In regards to the recording, we’re told the cab driver “tampered with the tape, cut up conversation and only used small part of the conversation.” Obviously, leaving out the initial part about the irresponsible friend of her friend makes Paris seem equally as ignorant, but such is just not the case. We’ve been assured that not only is Paris beside herself over this whole ordeal, but considering that 80% of her friends are gay, she feels this is “beyond lame.”

    Yeah, it really kind of is. Disregarding the complete invasion of privacy and the blatant exploitation of a celeb to make $$$, this is the wrong kind of catalyst to get people talking about the gay community. We can only imagine how many people are going to run with this story and make a big production about gays spreading AIDS, rather than get conversations going on what we can do, as a human community, to find a cure or better educate those who are infected.” –

    Read the full story at www.perezhilton.com

  • Tom Daley Sent Anti-Gay Tweet

    An anti-gay Tweet featured on Daniel Thomas’ Twitter stream yesterday after Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield narrowly missed out on a medal at the London Olympics.

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  • Amusing Site Of The Day Love Gods Way Gay Bands

    Sometimes when trawling through the internet I take a detour into the rather pathetic minds of the bigots out in the world… That’s why I’ve decided to create Amusing Site Of The Day.

    Today’s Funny Site Of The Day award goes to:

    http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands

    This hilarious site, (no actually it’s hilarious) warns parents about the dangers of listening to GAY music from artists such as:

    P!NK

    COLDPLAY

    MICHAEL JACKSON

    JASON MRAZ

    QUEEN

    and BOY GEORGE

    They recommend that you burn your kids CDs if they have any of the music on the “gay list” otherwise “the next thing you know you have a homosexual for a child”

    Dammit gays! Stop making our children gay through your MUSIC. Which is very strange because most of the list aren’t even gay, lesbian, bi or trans. There is, however, an explanation for this:

    “There are multiple levels of Gay Music. Some bands are what we like to call GATEWAY BANDS…”

    No, wait it gets better….

    “They lure children in with Pop Grooves and Salacious Melodies leaving them wanting more…”

    This is actual science. You can’t argue with these kinds of facts… You can’t make this kind of thing up.

    Congratulations http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands for create a amusing site.

    If you’re afraid that music might be turning you gay – feel free to email them:

    lovegodsway.org@gmail.com tell them the TheGayUK sends love and gayness.