According to the Metropolitan Police, the number of homophobic hate crimes reported in London alone has doubled over the last five years, with 2,079 incidents recorded between February 2017-2018. Things are no better in the United Kingdom, either.
The incident is indicative of the recent rise in hate crimes reported in Florida, which reached a four-year high last year. The aggressors were reported to have shouted anti-gay slurs during the attack, which was captured on CCTV. The victims, Rene Chalara and Dmitry Logunov, were beaten to the ground by a gang of four men, all of whom have since surrendered to police. The expansive festival featured an entire week of celebrations led by LGBT-friendly celebrities and performers including openly gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy, who made headlines for his spontaneous crowd-surfing.īut, on Sunday, the festivities were overshadowed by reports that a gay couple had been attacked in a brutal hate crime.
Last weekend, thousands of party-goers descended upon Miami Beach for its tenth annual Pride parade.