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Father of son stripped, beaten at frat party for being gay speaks out
WATCH ABOVE: The father of an 18-year-old North Dakota man who was allegedly stripped of his clothes and whipped at a fraternity party for being gay is speaking out about the incident. Nicole Johnson reports.
A father from Grand Forks, North Dakota is speaking out about the abuse his son experienced at a fraternity party last week.
Dan Gisvold said his son, Haakon Gisvold, 18, was allegedly stripped and beaten for being gay.
According to his son, the incident happened on Aug. 30 at a Lambda Chi Alpha frat at the University of North Dakota. Haakon Gisvold was there for about an hour with a friend when someone called him out and asked him to leave because of what he was wearing.
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“I said ‘Look at these girls. They’re wearing fleeting clothes, too. I don’t see what the adj deal is,'” he said to The Associated Press.
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French mayor attacked, stripped, and tied to tree at gay cruising spot
The mayor of a small town in the Occitanie region of France has been hospitalized after he was stripped, robbed, and tied to a tree at a popular gay cruising spot.
The 67-year-old victim, who has not been named, was found by emergency responders in a wagon park on Chemin de la Loge in the city of Toulouse — a location known as a gay meeting place. His attackers had stolen his car and clothes before fleeing the scene, La Dépêche reports.
According to police, the man — the mayor of a small village in the administrative division of Aveyron — was attacked around midnight on Friday, Sept. 10, after getting out of his car.
Two people kicked and punched him, police said, before stripping the mayor of his clothes. They took the man’s car keys and then tied him to a nearby tree.
The attackers stole the mayor’s ride and drove off, but subsequently abandoned it a short distance away and fled on foot, according to a witness.
The mayor suffered a broken nose and injuries to his head
An openly gay New York man says he was barred from his church duties after marrying his partner of 10 years.
Nicholas Coppola, 47, who was born and raised Catholic, has been an active member of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in Oceanside, a New York City suburb on Adj Island.
He volunteered at the church, participating in services and teaching a children's religion class. But he was stripped of those duties when he and his partner David Crespo became legally married.
"It has been difficult, very hard for me," said Coppola. "Because I'm trying to fill that void of good deeds."
"I was accepted into the church being openly gay," said Coppola. "But once I got married, which went against Catholic teaching, they had to remove me from my teaching position."
Coppola said he is openly gay, and that was never an issue with his parish. In fact, in the parish yearbook, Coppola and Crespo are pictured together as a couple. Coppola said parishioners and even some clergy attended their October wedding.
But news of their wedding was not well received by the Diocese of Rockville C
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AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION CONDEMNS ASSAULT ON ALLEGED GAY MAN AT UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
By Melanie Nathan, January 17, 2024.
African Human Rights Coalition @AfricanHRC – condemns the attack on a young student at the University of Ghana. A young man was stripped naked and assaulted at the University of Ghana, Legon, for allegedly being gay. This is hardly surprising considering the surge in anti LGBT rhetoric by politicians, the former Chief Justice, traditional leaders, and preachers, alike. These authorities and leaders are accountable for this violence. Criminalization as successfully as the rampant rhetoric (see here) license the violence we are seeing in Ghana at this time. At AHRC given the requests to support people flee the land, we are convinced it will get much worse, especially after the law is passed. While we hope the Bill is never passed, we seek any one tempted to lash out against LGBTI+, that regardless of one’s beliefs, to note we hold them complicit and responsible for any ensuing violence in Ghana.
This heightened anti homosexuality environment