Gay men stripped
Father of son stripped, defeated 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 organism 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 creature 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 compact clothes, too. I don’t see what the large deal is,'” he said to The Associated Press.
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With more than 2.7 million followers on Facebook, Nhyira FM has shared some videos showing two men stripped down to their underwear, tied to a pillar and being flogged in public with a caption saying, “alleged homosexual partners flogged mercilessly in public.”
In less than 24 hours, the two videos (here and here) acquire garnered more than 1.3 million views and generated lots of Facebook interactions including comments and shares.
A human rights organization, Rightify Ghana reacting to the Facebook post says it has the potential of promoting violence against LGBTQ persons in the region and is calling on GhanaFact to verify whether the video is existence accurately represented.
Discussions around the LGBTQ community have develop a lightning rod in Ghana following efforts to pass a bill in parliament that would criminalize homosexuality and make advocating for LGBTQ people a crime.
Fact-check
A Google Reverse Image Search of a screenshot taken from one of the videos published by Nhyira FM showed the videos were taken in Ebenator Ekwe, Imo Mention – Nigeria and not in Ghana.
The videos surfaced online on November 9, 2021, and were published by a Facebook user, Mc Banana Mout
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 vehicle 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 vehicle 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 and arms. He was taken to Purpan Hospital and required surgery. He was still hospitalized as of Monday,
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