What is a democracy when a man cant travel without getting beat up for his sexuality? A young gay CTA passenger was taunted by three white collar hooligans On January 10, at around 3 a.m. The three men shoved and taunted the young gay man. Daniel Hauff, 33, came to the young man’s defense, at which point the three assailants turned on Hauff. They used gay slurs, taunted him and punched him repeatedly in the face. Covered in blood he cried he has AIDS to get them to stop hitting him.
Did you think you would wake up to someone having to say they have AIDS to stop people from beating him up?
Sean Little, Benjamin Eder and Kevin McAndrew are being tried with a hate crime accordingly. I hope they get judged to the maximum possible extent of the law. People in this country have to know that this archaic behavior will not be tolerated in a free country.
To set an example for the rest of the country I wish Obama would call for our right to marriage. This would set a example for the country and the world hopefully stunting this growing homophobic epidemic. – Jake
A broadcaster for the BBC’s Inside Out programme smothered his ailing lover to spare him from “terrible pain”.
Police are investigating after the Nottingham film-maker said he had a pact with the deceased man to act if his suffering increased.
During a documentary on death and dying, Ray Gosling, 70, said: “I killed someone once. He’d been my lover and he got Aids.
“I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. No regrets.”
Mr Gosling said he smothered his former lover while he was in a hospital -- which he did not name -- after doctors told him that there was nothing further that could be done for him.
“I said to the doctor: ‘Leave me… just for a bit,’ and he went away.
“I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead.
“The doctor came back and I said: ‘He’s gone.’ Nothing more was ever said.
“When you love someone, it is difficult to see them suffer. My feelings on euthanasia are like jelly -- they wobble about.
“This is the time to share a secret I have kept for quite a long time.”
Nottinghamshire Police have started an inquiry.
A spokesman said: “We were not aware of Mr Gosling’s comments until the BBC Inside Out programme was shown.
“We are now liaising with the BBC and will investigate the matter.”
Dr Peter Saunders, of pressure group Care Not Killing, said the facts need to come out in court.
Ray Gosling: “We’d got an agreement -- if it got worse, the pain, and nobody could do anything”
Dr Saunders said: “We have a case, by Ray’s account, not of assisted suicide but of intentional killing or murder.”
Assisted suicide remains a criminal offence, but interim guidelines issued in September by the director of public prosecutions set out the factors which weigh in favour of and against prosecution in different cases in England and Wales.
Last month Kay Gilderdale, 55, of Stonegate, East Sussex, was cleared of the attempted murder of her severely ill daughter who had ME. Mrs Gilderdale had administered lethal drugs to end 31-year-old Lynn Gilderdale’s life after her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed.
Days before that another mother, Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, east London, was jailed for nine years for murder after she injected her brain-damaged son Thomas, 22, with a lethal dose of heroin. Read more……..
The Revolutions club in Orlando on Monday is usually a Gay and Lesbian Hispanic night. Usually a fun night for everyone was a tire massacre for the unsuspecting clubbers. Two dozen car’s tires were slashed in the clubs parking lot.
First off I don’t know the semantics of the situation, but where was the doorman? Could he not see two dozen cars getting slashed? Have you ever tried to slash a tire? its kind of hard and makes a hissing sound imagine hissing times dozens, says something of the str8 owned club.
The police are not willing to call this a hate crime at the moment: they say no intent of gay bashing is evident. Let me get this straight. No tires were slashed in the entire neighborhood, the only place with slashes is the club with the gay party which has been running for years. So, was this a isolated attack with a purpose or just random? Get real Orlando. - Jake
Homophobia is “alive and well” in Chicago according to a gay 33-year-old Rogers Park man who was badly beaten as he rode the L in an alleged hate crime early Sunday.
Dan Hauff says he was bloodied on the CTA red line by three men who called him “stupid faggot” and punched him in the face after he tried to help a stranger they were picking on.
“I was just trying to stand up for somebody in trouble,” he said Sunday after being released from the hospital with bruises. Read more……..
LOS ANGELES — After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that ends at a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives.
“It’s a high-stakes poker move, no doubt about that,” said Jane Schacter, a professor of constitutional law at Stanford University. “I think the calculation for a long time has been that it’s hard to count five votes in favor of same-sex marriage on the current Supreme Court.”
Two couples are asking Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker to rule that same-sex marriage is a right embedded in the Constitution, and that it was violated last year when California voters passed a ballot measure confining matrimony to members of the opposite sex.
In the San Francisco courtroom, however, the spotlight is not on the gay male or lesbian pair, but on the odd couple representing both: Theodore B. Olson, a conservative Republican, and David Boies, a famed Read more………..
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