The Vatican has yet to comment after it was reported that Pope Francis used “extremely homophobic language” after being asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the priesthood as long as they remained celibate. Pope Francis said they should not and he is then believed to […]
Rylan revealed his skull was fractured in a homophobic attack in his documentary Rylan: Homophobia, Football and Me, which explores football as an LGBTQ+ fan. Looking back on his own life experiences, Rylan remembered waking up in the back of an ambulance after he was attacked. During the documentary, Rylan, who visited a playground where […]
Six men aged between 16 and 22 have been arrested after a suspected homophobic hate crime attack last month, in which a gay man was hit with a plank of wood. Callum Griggs, 23, was attacked by the gang while he was walking with his partner, Brad Balueta, who said the gang were standing outside a […]
A gay man was hospitalised on Sunday, October 1 after a gang attacked him in broad daylight as he walked along Chadwell Heath High Road in London. Callum Griggs, 23, was kicked and punched by the gang while he was walking with his partner, Brad Balueta, who spoke to Yahoo News. “I had spotted them […]
Videos of the attack on the Madame Om bar by people identifying themselves as members of the Jnoud El-Rab Christian group show the assailants destroying furniture outside the bar, beating up people who tried to leave the premises, and threatening the owner with more violence if they continued to “promote homosexuality”.
The Metropolitan Police Service are appealing for information following a homophobic, double stabbing outside LGBTQ+ venue the Two Brewers at Clapham High Street, London on Sunday, August 13, 2023.
Matthew Bramwell (21) from Penkridge, Staffordshire has denied charges over homophobic abuse during a Wolves V Chelsea football match.
University of Roehampton seek to interview LGBTQ+ people who have experienced some form of abuse or violence from one or more family members while growing up
Zak Kostopoulos, queer activist and drag artist, was brutally beaten by two men after entering a jewellery shop in central Athens in 2018. According to Amnesty International, footage showed four police officers using unnecessary force to arrest the activist as he lay dying.
West Midlands Police are currently investigating a report of homophobic comments made to a man in the early hours of Saturday, February 19. The incident occurred in the Gay Village, on Lower Essex Street between the Fox Bar and the Nightingale Club. West Midlands Police they explained in a statement: “We received an initial report […]
