Gay gang

A gang used LGBT dating app Grindr to lure men into meeting, police said, before violently assaulting them and stealing their belongings. Detectives said some victims were held for hours against their will and left fearing for their lives while their accounts were raided. All five were convicted of conspiring to commit robbery and are due to be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on 28 and 29 November. The spree, which began in April , saw men encouraged to meet at locations under the pretence they were meeting with a legitimate user on the Grindr app, West Midlands Police said.

I was a gay man, convicted of a sex crime. But I had one thing going for me: I was big, weighing in at pounds, a fair amount of which was muscle. For the most part, other inmates left me alone. That is, until the other gays and trans found out about me.

Vanessa R. Panfil does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. There are many stereotypes of and assumptions about street gangs , just as there are many stereotypes and assumptions about gay men. Pretty much none of those stereotypes overlap.

At least 15 people have been arrested in Austria and Slovakia accused of hate crimes aimed at the gay community, according to state police in southern Austria. Some officers took part in raids on Friday morning on behalf of the Graz public prosecutors office. They arrested 12 men and three women, aged 14 to 26, who are accused of luring people - many gay - to remote locations using fake social media accounts, before beating them up and filming it. The perpetrators began luring people using social media accounts in May