Posts Tagged ‘Violence’

COMMONWEALTH RAPPED FOR IGNORING HOMO-ABUSE

Image via Wikipedia Gay rights campaigner and Green Party human rights spokesperson Peter Tatchell has accused Commonwealth leaders of a “systematic, persistent failure to condemn homophobic discrimination and violence.” He’s urged Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma...
November 26th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

TATCHELL’S LETTER TO COMMONWEALTH LEADER

Copy of Peter Tatchell’s letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma Commonwealth Secretary-General Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX 020 7747 6500 secretary-general@commonwealth.int 19 November 2009 Your Excellency, I am writing to inquire what the Commonwealth is...
November 26th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

GAY BUSINESSMAN DIES AFTER PUNCH THRILL SESSION

The Times reports today how a gay businessman died after paying a man to punch him as part of a sex fetish. Colin Butler, 49, died after a session with Keiran Avery, 21. Butler was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on and suffered fractures to his face, neck and ribs. Amjad Malik, prosecuting, told...
November 18th, 2009 | News | Read More