Anti-LGBTQ Attacks Increase Dramatically In Ireland
metroweekly.comIn Ireland, the slew of unsettling news for LGBTQ people continues to mount. Most recently, a gay man was assaulted in the capital city of Dublin.Twenty-three-year-old Evan Somers, an openly gay rugby player, was attacked by a “marauding gang” in the parking lot of a supermarket during the pre-dawn hours of April 10 after a night of partying at The George, a local pub in Dublin.Somers said that, at first, just one man confronted him, “getting in [his] face,” mocking him, and insulting him with homophobic slurs before punching him.
But the original attacker was soon joined by a separate “gang” – all beating Somers simply because he was gay. “[I was] left me with a fractured eye socket, 2 fractures in my ankle, a dislocation in my ankle & some other minor injuries,” Somers wrote in a Twitter post about the injuries he sustained from the assault. “We’ve come a long way but still have such a long way to go in terms of equality.”Somers wasn’t the group’s first victim that night.
Earlier in the morning, the group ran up and brutally accosted another young man in his early 30s in a similar manner around 40 minutes earlier.
According to the Sunday Independent, a local newspaper in Dublin, a “well-placed source” stated that the gang had no personal link to Somers or the other man they attacked earlier.“They simply were still around town, looking for more trouble.
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