Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men’s entertainment

This horrifying picture shows a flight attendant and her girlfriend covered in blood after a gang of men attacked them when they refused to kiss for them.

The apparently homophobic attack happened on a London bus as the couple returned home from an evening out last month. Ryanair worker Melania Geymonat, 28, from Uruguay, was left with a suspected broken nose while girlfriend Chris, from the US, was also beaten up.

Melania, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, said they were sat at the front on the top deck because they enjoyed the novelty of the double decker bus. However, during the journey she claims a gang of young men behind them saw they were a couple and started to demand they kiss while making crude sexual gestures.

Melania said: ‘They wanted us to kiss so they could watch us. I tried to defuse the situation as I’m not a confrontational person, telling them to please leave us alone as Chris wasn’t feeling well.’

The men, who were in their 20s or 30s, began throwing things and the couple told them to stop during the attack on Thursday May 30. Melania added: ‘The next thing I remember was Chris in the middle of them and they were beating her.

‘I didn’t think about it and went in. I was pulling her back and trying to defend her so they started beating me up. ‘I don’t even know if I was knocked unconscious. I felt blood, I was bleeding all over my clothes and all over the floor.

‘We went downstairs and the police were there.’ Melania said there were at least four of them and one spoke Spanish while the others had a British accent. The attackers also robbed the couple before fleeing the bus.

Melania, who moved to the UK in February and is on a year’s sabbatical from her medical studies, says she felt safe as a gay woman in London and was stunned by the attack. She released the picture to raise awareness of violence against women and gay people.

She is still waiting to find out if her nose was broken in the attack, which happened following a night out in Camden, north London.

Melania said: ‘We were seen as entertainment, that’s what makes me so angry.’

She added: ‘What upsets me the most is that violence has become a common thing, that sometimes it’s necessary to see a woman bleeding after having been punched to feel some kind of impact.

‘I’m tired of being taken as a sexual object, of finding out that these situations are usual, of gay friends who were beaten up just because. ‘We have to endure verbal harassment and chauvinist, misogynistic and homophobic violence.’

Campaign group Stonewall pointed out that homophobic attacks were on the rise.

They said that 16% of lesbian, gay and bisexual people had experienced a hate crime or incident in 2016.

That compared to 9% in 2013 – a rise of 78%.


https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/07/gay-couple-beaten-refusing-kiss-mens-entertainmen...

So what's your point, Horse Boy? That we're little better or that we don't need to worry about this because something else is worse?

I wonder what race and religion the perps are? One had a Spanish accent apparently? Possibly North African?

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:50pm:

More men are killed and beaten at the hands of other males Mothra? It's not a gender issue. It's a human issue.

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:51pm:



Of course it's a gender issue! It's bloody men doing the raping, beating and killing!

But you all say, oh at least we don;t throw people off buildings, call us all femonazis and carry on.

It's unbelievable!

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:57pm:


The percentage isn't that small, Hammer. One woman dies in this country every week.

And you say more men are killed than women.

That's not small at all.

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:50pm:


YOU are why..........if you think nagging and whining is going to get anybody to take YOU seriously you are sadly mistaken...........you're a pontificating idiot who clings on to Miss Pessary just for his twisted support of your pizz weak notion of what you consider is important. Why the hell would anybody take you seriously.

freediver wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:49pm:


That is pathetic freediver.  Two women have been beaten up against a background of homophobia, and as the Leader of this Forum, the best you can do to address that appalling situation is to coast tail Mr Ed to assist in a deflection away from a genuine issue (the topic) so some other genuine issue having SFA to do with the topic.

Nah.

I wonder whether the attackers graduated from Oxford or Cambridge?

And now we have Fuzzball, Hammer and (no surprise) Gordon piling in on the wholly irrelevant point.  You blokes are total dick heads, really, and freediver is no bloody better.

Why is it beyond you to show support, unequivocal unconditional support for the victims of what is obviously an atrocious and homophobic attack on two women simply going about their lives in a civil and lawful fashion on a bloody Bus?

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:01pm:


Worse? What's worse than being publicly flogged or executed?

Vilification against gays in UK is against the law. In Islamic countries vilification if gays IS that law.

freediver wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:49pm:



I think you should ban them FD.

Gordon wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:10pm:


What on Earth has that got to do with this Thread?

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:13pm:


WTF has Oxford and Cambridge?

Gordon wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:10pm:



So we don't talk about what happens in our own lands. Anything short of that goes, yeah?

What right do women here have to complain, right? Right?

Gordy using violence against women in the West to push his Islamophobia.

Anyone surprised?

Carry on boys.

If the men hired Aussie as their attorney and they were found "not guilty" would you complain about an unfair verdict, Mothra?

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:18pm:

A bunch of juveniles Mothra. They aren't even men.

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:23pm:



what a load of rubbish ... you just make it up as you go, right?

AiA wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:19pm:



Maybe the strawberry picker's mother felt the same way about her victimized daughter that the way the mothers of these two unfortunate women feel. How will the mothers feel when the case goes to court and the victims get on the stand and as a consequence of Aussie's line of questioning admit that the whole affair actually consensual?

flip

Wrong again Mothra-

ABC News

London's Metropolitan police said four males aged between 15 and 18 had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and committing a hate crime.

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:34pm:


Just ignore him Aussie. He is beyond pathetic.

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:35pm:



From the OP, Hammer:

The men, who were in their 20s or 30s, began throwing things and the couple told them to stop during the attack on Thursday May 30.

Captain Nemo wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:36pm:


Thanks Nemo but we don't want you to be ashamed. Just be the opposite and walk talk and preach the opposite.

We need good men taking on a leadership role in this.

You are essential.

flip

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:38pm:


Like Aussie, an attorney who demonstrated that the victim was somehow asking for her rape in the strawberry field?

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:39pm:




You're not ashamed t all. All you have done is try to distance yourself from it by suggesting they were tinted .. then goner on to say it hardly ever happens (wrong) and tried to minimise it.

But nobody wants you to be ashamed, Hammer. We want you to say simply and firmly, without all of the other bulshit, NO. This isn't acceptable.

Can you do that?

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:44pm:


Aussie, answering him just encourages him. He's like a child. Ignore him. Her's deliberately trashing the thread.

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:43pm:

It isn't acceptable. But it's hardly world news.

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:46pm:


yet here we are in Oz talking about something that happened in London

flip

AiA wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:49pm:



pretty sure you did that on your own ... not your fault though, your stupidity is genetic

Mr Hammer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:51pm:



no reason not to from me ... you were the one who two posts ago had a problem with it

John Smith wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:50pm:



Uh, no. Mothra did all the work. She will finger any man a rapist who doesn't agree with her so be careful John.

AiA wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:52pm:



nah, I read the comment when you wrote them .. .it was all your doing. You're just to slow to realise it.

freediver wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:53pm:



Both actually, if that's what you want to call it.

We women can multitask .. 

John Smith wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:53pm:


No John, Mothra insinuated I am a rapist for disagreeing with her.

freediver wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:53pm:


Any sort of incident in which a woman is victimized by a man gets Mothra going, and rightly so FD, except when Aussie is involved and then she is fine with rape.

AiA wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:30pm:
Good point.

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 2:36pm:


And London is full of homophobic Islamics .....

care to start again instead of making this a generalisation of all men? 

Quote:


Are you excusing these thugs because women had to fight to get a vote?

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:07pm:


Hey knuckle f*#k the OP wasn't purely about the attack on 2 gay females was it?

It was an out to bash men ... pure & simple.

No investigation as to who the perps were ... in a city now with diverse cultures ... many of which treat their women appallingly as the norm.

mothra wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:14pm:


You ... to take a leaf out of your book .. stupid woman. 

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 6:41pm:


Don't selectively edit ... read the whole post & your question is answered.

You sound like a verbaling copper.

Jesus, this is a terrible story.

London, WTF?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 7:50pm:


No surprise, though, that Gordon, Hammer, Fuzzball, et al. are condoning the violence.

Gordon wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 7:57pm:


The denials and backtracking begins.

And so it is.

Gordon wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 8:05pm:


And now the abuse.

Oh dear.

gordie seems to not like being called on his own actions 

Aussie wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 8:08pm:


Hey kid pinning rapist defender.

The story is about homophobia in the UK and I posted a story about homophobia in the UK.

Gordon wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 3:14pm:

John Smith wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 9:37pm:


Are you opposed to paedophiles being sent to jail?

John Smith wrote on Jun 8^th, 2019 at 9:53pm:


What did you base the question on, village idiot?