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Gay student left bloodied and battered after ‘homophobic attack’ in London

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A gay man was the victim of an alleged hate crime after a night out at Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross, London. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. Harry Batt, a 21-year-old student, told ITV News he was waiting for the bus home when a woman reportedly subjected him to verbal homophobic abuse. This quickly escalated into physical violence, as she allegedly punched him in the back of the head which left him bleeding due to the ring she was wearing cutting…

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Man and woman arrested for “vicious” killing of lesbian couple in Mexico

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Two people have been arrested by Chihuahua state investigators in relation to the brutal torture and killing of a lesbian couple. According to El Plaso Times, the attorney general’s office confirmed on 24 January that Jaqueline Isela C.R, aged 25, and David R., aged 24, were arrested on charges of aggravated femicide. Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road on 16 January. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered…

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Lesbian couple found tortured, shot and dismembered in trash bags in Ciudad Juárez

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Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered on 16 January the day after seeing family whom they had travelled to visit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Diario reported. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Chihuahua Committee for Sexual Diversity director Karen Arvizo confirmed that the pair were parents to…

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Police launch manhunt for culprit of ‘homophobic attack’ on London train

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Police are asking the public for help in identifying a man who is believed to have subjected two people to a homophobic attack. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. Just before 7:30pm on 27 December 2021, the suspect allegedly launched into a homophobic tirade on-board a train travelling between London Bridge and East Croydon stations. As well as directing anti-gay slurs at the two victims, the man reportedly attacked them – leaving one with a broken toe that required hospital treatment. On…

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Birmingham police officer left with broken ribs after suspected homophobic attack

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In what is being treated as a homophobic attack, an on-duty police officer in Birmingham has been left with fractured ribs. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. According to West Midlands Police, a female officer was responding to reports of an altercation in Birmingham’s Gay Village on 31 December 2021 at around 8pm. Police issued a statement that they are supporting the officer after she sustained injuries at the scene. “An attack on a police officer is unacceptable whatever the circumstances,” a…

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Man knocked unconscious in Blackpool during vile homophobic attack

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Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a man was the victim of a homophobic attack in Blackpool. According to the Lancashire Constabulary, the victim was walking home from the Flying Handbag on Queen Street between 2am and 2:30am on 9 December. He was approached by two men and asked if he was at the venue and if he was gay as he walked along Palatine Road towards Central Drive. The man was then hit on the side of the head, resulting in him losing consciousness. The culprits are…

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Jussie Smollett denies staging homophobic and racist attack on himself

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Jussie Smollett has testified in court that “there was no hoax” when it came to a racist, homophobic attack he said he was the victim of. The 39-year-old alleges that he was targeted in Chicago on 29 January 2019 by two assailants who shouted slurs at him. He is currently facing six felony disorderly conduct charges for allegedly lying about what happened. In court, he stuck with his claim that the attackers shouted a Trump slogan and tied a noose around his neck. Prosecutors accuse the actor of faking the…

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Students stage school walkout over trans teen being ‘assaulted in bathroom’

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Students protested outside their school after a transgender teen reported being assaulted and police declared that no such attack took place. On 4 November, the students united in front of Berlin High School in Berlin, Wisconsin to take a stand against the response to the claims. The 14-year-old student said he was cornered in the boy’s bathroom before a group of students demanded he take off his pants and lift up his shirt to expose his body. Speaking to local news outlet WBAY, the student explained: “They were surrounding the…

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Trans teenager left with concussion after being attacked at school

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A transgender student said that she was attacked and left with a concussion at high school after being verbally assaulted. Willow Andring explained to CBS Pittsburgh that a male student assaulted her after making verbal insults about her trans identity in an incident that was caught on camera at Armstrong High School. “He pulled me from behind and started beating me up,” Andring said. “Before that he had been calling me names, saying, ‘It’s not a she, it’s not a he, it’s an it.’” The 14-year-old told her mother that…

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Man arrested in connection to suspected homophobic murder in London

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A man has been arrested in relation to the suspected homophobic murder of 50-year-old Ranjith Kankanamalage. Kankanamalage’s body was found dead in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, East London, in the early hours of 16 August. The 50-year-old, who was known as Roy by friends, was declared deceased at the scene by members of the London Ambulance Service who arrived at around 6.30am. He was found to have a head injury and a post-mortem examination later ruled that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. In a…

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