Discussion: Gay male attacked for kissing bf

KareBear

A Man’s Defiant Tweet Posted After A Violent Anti-Gay Attack Has Gone Viral

Three days ago, Cole Ledford, a student from Ohio, was punched in the face by a man who saw him kissing his boyfriend.

"To the guy who punched me tonight for kissing my boyfriend."

Ledford posted this shortly after:

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I’m sorry that you called me ***. I’m sorry you hit me for no reason. I’m sorry whatever insecurities you have don’t allow you to accept others for who they are. I’m sorry I threaten you.
I’m NOT sorry I’m gay. I’m proud to be this way. I’m proud to be confident enough to love who I love and to love me. I’m proud to have friends and family that love me regardless of me. Honestly, I’m not sorry.

He proudly posted pictures of his boyfriend, who supported him.

Update from Cole Ledford

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I am doing much better. I still have a black eye but the swelling is down. Emotionally I couldn’t be better from all the support. I filed a report through Ohio States system for hate crimes and bias.
I had never experienced anything like this before and to be honest never dreamed it could or would happen to me. My boyfriend has been absolutely amazing through all of this. He has been incredibly supportive. Neither one of us expected a response like this but he has been willing to stand by me and become an active LGBT activist as well. He makes me proud.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and for the impact you are letting me have on the world. I am hoping to continue to take this negative thing that happened to me and turn it into work within the LGBT community. I am humbled and eager to find new ways to get involved with this.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/a-...olent-anti-gay

Don't know why people's love life is such a big deal to others to make them want to be violent

KareBear

Omg the pics are huge. Help

LoKoPaNdA

This makes me so mad, people getting physically attacked for being who they are like what even

Eternium

They are soooo adorable and sweet. And you want to use the IMGzoom tag.

EDIT: Just remove the spaces: [ Imgzoo m = 40 ] pictureurlhere [ / imgzoo m ]

Joan

KatyLegendperry

Disgusting. I'll never understand why two people in a loving and caring relationship can cause other people to become so angry. They make a very cute couple

madonnafan18

Sad.

Yooorsh

The world needs to grow up.

hardbrit

His BF is HOT! Why do SOME people hate gays so much? I don't understand.

judaskills

Ugh people are so disgusting and these two boys are so cute. How could anyone wanna hurt them?

Ina Garten

PDA is completely uncouth!

Priyanka Chopra

SlayingOnTheEarth

Yes queen. I love that he loves himself regardless

Bamboo

Mezter

Aw

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Originally posted by Ina Garten

PDA is completely uncouth!

Reza

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Originally posted by hardbrit

His BF is HOT! Why do SOME people hate gays so much? I don't understand.

ignorance. its how they were raised. they don't understand it so they get violent, its their only way to react. the only way we can fight this is through education as well as not hiding who we are

Howie

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Originally posted by Ina Garten

PDA is completely uncouth!

So should Gays punch str8's in the face when they kiss in public?

Summerboy95

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Originally posted by hardbrit

His BF is HOT! Why do SOME people hate gays so much? I don't understand.

Most of the people that hate them are closeted gays. And probably looking at a gay couple expressing their love makes their angry or sth like that.

Also because of religion, but let´s not..

ManDown

It's sad that this is still happening in ****ing 2014. What kind of coward assaults somebody like this? I hope he's caught and is charged with a hate crime.

Legacy

disgusting