On Monday, August 14, 2017 at 4:58:33 PM UTC-7, LGBTQIA Record wrote:   
   > Fifty years ago, gay sex between men in private was    
   > decriminalised in England and Wales. Despite this, hate crimes    
   > against gay people have persisted, and the number of attacks    
   > recorded by police has been rising. There were 7,194 in England    
   > and Wales in the year to April 2016. Campaigners say this isn't    
   > the full picture, though, as many victims still don't report    
   > assaults. Six people affected by hate crimes share their stories.   
   >    
   > Warning: This story contains details of violence and images    
   > which some readers might find upsetting.   
   >    
   > James and Dain were enjoying a night out together in Brighton in    
   > May 2016 when they were followed out of a nightclub and attacked    
   > on the seafront. The assault has left physical and emotional    
   > scars.   
   >    
   > James: We were at the bar and we got this look from a couple of    
   > guys from across the dance floor. It takes a lot to make me feel    
   > uncomfortable but it was just such a weird look they gave us.    
   > Dain had his arm around me. I don't think they liked that.   
   >    
   > Then they started shouting at us. I told Dain we needed to get    
   > out of the club into a taxi the quickest way possible.   
   >    
   > Dain: We left the bar. No-one was about. All of a sudden I heard    
   > running behind us. There was no way we were going to outrun    
   > them. They grabbed us from behind and chucked us to the floor. I    
   > was lying on the pavement and all I could see was James but the    
   > next thing I saw was a shoe coming towards my face. That knocked    
   > me completely unconscious.   
   >    
   > James: One of the boys started kicking Dain's face really    
   > rapidly. There was a lot of aggression and shouting of "gay    
   > boys".   
   >    
   > Every time I tried to crawl closer to Dain, I was dragged along    
   > the pavement. At that point, a taxi drove past and called the    
   > police. I remember standing up for the first time and Dain    
   > looked at me and said, "I can't see."   
   >    
   > Dain: My eye socket was completely shattered. I had haemorrhages    
   > in both my eyes and fractures on my cheeks. My tooth was chipped    
   > and my nose was broken as well. I remember being in hospital and    
   > kept asking, "Am I going to be able to see again?"   
   >    
   > They said, "We can't tell you because everything is so swollen."    
   > They couldn't even open my eyes.   
   >    
   > James and I were very close anyway but spending that much time    
   > with each other really proved to me how strong our relationship    
   > is. I'm a very resilient person and I'm not going to live my    
   > life how someone else wants me to. I'm not going to let anyone    
   > change that. If anything, this has made me want to be who I am    
   > even more.   
   >    
   > James: It's made him stronger and it's made him not care about    
   > what other people think and to go out there and be himself even    
   > more, whereas it's done the opposite to me. It's changed me.    
   > I've changed my thought process and mindset, how I think, how I    
   > look, how I speak, who I'm with, where we go and it's sad    
   > because I remember how we were before it happened and I look at    
   > us now and it's upsetting because it's them who made this    
   > happen. That's what's hard to accept.   
   >    
   > It's a year since it happened and I thought things would    
   > probably get easier but they haven't. When we're out and about    
   > he wants us to look like we're together obviously but I'm scared    
   > of something similar happening again. It wasn't like that a year    
   > ago. We didn't go down the street holding hands but I wasn't    
   > fully aware of us making sure that we weren't seen as a couple.   
   >    
   > I couldn't ever forgive the people who attacked us or forget    
   > what happened. It will stay with me and I'm sure it will stay    
   > with them for the rest of their lives.   
   >    
   > Both attackers, Gage Vye-Parminter and Matthew Howes, pleaded    
   > guilty to grievous bodily harm and assault and were sentenced to    
   > seven years in prison.   
   >    
   > http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40643461   
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   AFAIC, supermax is too damned good for those no-good-for-anything thugs. :x   
      
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