The face of homophobia

With the internet and social media, things are shared now faster than ever. This picture has gone viral they reckon, the result of a gay bashing in Paris. All it took was being arm in arm. Wilfred de Bruijn posted his photo on Facebook.

France has in recent times been having big debates on gay marriage with it currently looking like a goer. Some are blaming the heated-ness of the debates for the upsurge in France lately of homophobic attacks.

This was a shocking and incredibly violent incident. We have seen a thirty percent rise in the number of homophobic incidents since October. This is a result of the opposition towards the gay marriage bill. These people say they are not homophobic but they are. Homophobia has become trivialized, which is proved by the number of verbal assaults on gay people, which often to lead to physical assaults. more