Homophobia in the UK
Two men have been jailed for life for the horrific killing of barman Jody Dobrowski on Clapham Common in south London in October 2005. It comes as a grim reminder to an increasingly confident gay community that the threat of homophobic violence remains one they cannot afford to ignore.
It is not an isolated event:
Jody's killing was one of 1,306 homophobic crimes reported to police in London last year - and one of a string of attacks on Clapham Common.
In September 2005 a gay man survived after being garrotted with a piece of wire by an attacker on the common. Two weeks later another man was beaten unconscious.Five months after Jody's murder yet another violent attack in the same area left a gay man with severe facial injuries and a broken leg.
The problem is by no means confined to the capital.In July 2005 a 52-year-old man suffered facial injuries after he was kicked to the ground in Southampton.In December a gay priest, the Most Reverend Dr Barry Rathbone, was attacked with a metal baseball bat in a Bournemouth park. His attacker was later jailed for two years.There has also been a series of violent attacks in Londonderry.
Gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says:
"As many lesbians and gay men feel more comfortable about their sexuality, their increased visibility makes them vulnerable to being targeted by gay-bashing gangs...the typical attacker is young, poorly educated and unemployed, with their motivation stemming either from their religious background or from insecurity and fear about their own sexuality."
The motives of the assailants were simple (for them):
"We don't like poofters here and that's why we can kill him if we want".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5087286.stmOfficers arriving at the scene described Mr Dobrowski's face as "a bloody swollen pulp".Mr Dobrowski, who was originally from Stroud in Gloucestershire, was taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, where tests revealed he had a swollen brain, a broken nose and extensive bruising to his neck and spine as well as to his groin.
He was so badly injured that a pathologist was unable to say how many times he had been hit but identified 33 areas of injury to his head, face, ears and neck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5080164.stm
So what do you think? Are the thugs who target people about their sexuality any different then the thugs who target people about the race?
And what about those guys?
We believe that homosexuality is unhealthy for any community. Even so, no one wants to see homosexuals which make up less than 2% of the entire population persecuted for being what they are. That's why homosexuality was legalised. Nevertheless, the flood of homosexual propaganda to 'normalise' this tendency has been both unforeseen and corrupting. Consequently, there will be a ban on the public display and promotion of homosexuality, including in schools and in the mass media.http://www.umu.man.ac.uk/labour/bnp.htmlThe BNP would make it unlawful to promote homosexuality and return it to the closet where the law says it should be ("consenting adults in private"). My own personal view would be to recriminalise it and return to the situation as it was pre 1967.
Dr Phill Edwards National Press Officer BNP
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