Fake "Antigay" hate crimes

Fake hate-crimes are frequently perpetrated by the LGBT movement in order to gain sympathy, political leverage, charitable donations or government funding.

A fake hate-crime may consist of a hoaxer carrying out deliberate self-harm or damage in order to convince the public that homosexuals are victims of persecution, or it may consist of the misinterpretation of genuine crimes carried out for another motive e.g. Mathew Shepard case (see below).

Category 1. Planned Frauds

Nikki Joly, 2019

Nikki Joly, a transgender person and LGBT activist who got an award from his local paper in Jackson, Michigan, as Citizen of the Year for her devotion to "gay rights", has been charged with burning down her own home to stage a fake hate-crime. Her own two dogs and three cats were killed in the blaze. Traces of gasoline were later found in five rooms on the first floor of the two-story, wooden-frame house, according to the police report. Friends said that Joly, born a woman but now claiming to be a man, had been disappointed and frustrated when the last "gay rights" parade in Jackson had attracted so little attention. Joly, 54, did not own the house, which was insured by its owner. Joly had given birth to a daughter before deciding to identify as a "transman".

Jussie Smollett 2019

Jussie Smollet, a homosexual actor who plays the part of a homosexual man in the TV series Empire, told Chicago police in January 2019 that he had been attacked by two men who shouted "racist and homophobic abuse". He claimed that they had placed a rope around his neck and thrown a toxic liquid over him. In February police announced that Smollett had paid the men, who were both known to him, to carry out the fake attack. He wrote them a cheque that could easily be traced back to him. They had also smeared President Trump and the Republican Party by wearing red MAGA baseball caps and shouting "This is MAGA country" for the benefit of CCTV cameras. A fake racist-and-homophobic message sent to Smollett a few days before was proved to be of his own authorship. In December 2021 Smollett was finally convicted on five felony charges of fraud for making false allegations. It was proved that he had paid two Nigerian men to fake the attack, which had been rehearsed in advance. He had previously been paying them for homosexual services. They both testified against him in court. He faces a prison sentence. The Chicago authorities are now suing him for wasting $130k on a police investigation for the fake hate attack.

Anthony Anthos

Anthony Anthos, a 72-year-old man in Detroit, Michigan, died of a fall in 2007. When it emerged than Anthos had been a homosexual, several LGBT groups started to allege that he had been the victim of a homophobic murder, and not only that, but they proceeded to smear the Michigan pro-family lobby group and try to pin responsibility for it on them.

Homosexual activists actually went to the police and filed a charge that the death had been a hate-crime, naming an African-American man as the alleged murderer. Detroit police investigated and concluded there was “No evidence an assault occurred.” Anthos had not been attacked and instead died of an accidental fall caused by a degenerative disease. Police spokesman James Tate said ’He died of natural causes.’

Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, issued the following statement: “Homosexual activists were obviously well into great plans to exploit and profit both financially and politically from the now apparently false claims about the tragedy of this poor man’s death. It’s time for Jeff Montgomery and the Triangle Foundation to come clean and tell us whatever they know about whether someone convinced an elderly man suffering from mental illness, a week after he accidentally fell and hit his head, to falsely accuse an African-American man of attacking him for ‘being “gay.’”

The LGBT group never apologized, retracted or admitted any wrongdoing. Nor did any court award financial damages for the slander they circulated.

Joseph Baken

In 2012, Joseph Baken of Missoula, Montana, posted a photograph of his bruised face on a Facebook page WipeOutHomophobia.com, claiming that his injuries were the result of being beaten up by three men because he was homosexual. He said he entered the Missoula Club the previous Saturday to celebrate his 22nd birthday, announced he was "gay", and asked for directions to a "gay" bar. He called the police three hours later, at 4:30 a.m, saying a man had lured him outside to smoke a cigarette, where two other men joined him, beat Baken up and called him a “f—-ot.”

WipeOutHomophobia.com made a hero out of Baken. Within hours, the post showing his bruised face had garnered nearly half-a-million “likes.” The Huffington Post followed suit, replicating all that was said on WipeOutHomophobia.com. State Representative Ellie Hill, (Democrat) seized on the attack to suggest sexual orientation be added to Montana’s hate crimes law.

But police found a cellphone video showing Baken, who had been using a skateboard, doing a backflip that went wrong, and caused his injuries. His story about three evil homophobes was invented to get sympathy. It has a lot in common with the case of Richard Kennedy (see above).

Julie Baker

In June 2015, Julie Baker, a 47-year-old widow in Baltimore MD, set up a GoFundMe campaign, claiming that a neighbor left a note threatening to call police over a multicolored display in her yard. "Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!” the note read. “Myself and Others in the neighborhood ask that you Tone it Down. This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will be forced to call the police on You! Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.” Baker asked donors for $5,000 to make it “even more ‘relentlessly gay,’” borrowing a phrase from the note. She received $43,000 in donations before suspicions were raised that she might have written the anonymous note herself. Social media users noted that the note used the same idiosyncratic capitalization pattern as Baker’s social media posts, and police said she was unwilling to show it to them or meet them to investigate her claims.

Chris Ball (suspected hoax)

In November 2016, Chris Ball, described as a "gay Canadian filmmaker" of Santa Monica California told a newspaper that he had suffered a violent anti-homosexual attack shortly after Donald Trump was elected president. Ball said he was watching the election results in a bar in Santa Monica when tensions flared up between Clinton and Trump supporters. He told Calgary Metro that “People started launching homophobic slurs at me from afar,” and that as he was leaving the bar a group of men approached him in the alley and smashed a bottle over his head, making him fall backwards, hit his head against the pavement and black out. “When I came to, I called some friends, they picked me up and I went right to the hospital,” he claimed. Friends on Facebook said he had needed five staples in the head for his injuries. But police said he made no report to them and the authorities confirmed that he did not check into any hospital in the area. If it was a genuine case why did he not go to the police, and why would he mislead people about the hospital treatment? A police statement released said "SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPARTMENT ADVISORY: You may have seen an unconfirmed story regarding a possible hate crime incident involving a “Chris Ball” alleging he was assaulted in Santa Monica on election night, November 8, by “Trump Supporters”. The Santa Monica Police Department and the City of Santa Monica have not received any information indicating this crime occurred in the City of Santa Monica. We encourage the alleged victim to come forward and work with us if a crime did in fact take place. A check of local hospitals revealed there was no victim of any such incident admitted or treated. If you have any questions, please contact Public Information Officer, Lt. Saul Rodriguez, (310) 458-2293.

Sarah Bray

In 2013, Sarah Bray claimed that a Catholic hospital in Indianapolis had barred her from visiting her lesbian partner, Jennifer Clemmer. The story hit the headlines big time. It was the perfect LGBT story about an “evil,” “hateful,” Christian hospital forbidding homosexual love from flourishing. The only problem was that it was not true.

Shortly afterwards, St. Francis Health center in Indianapolis asserted that they had never stopped Bray from visiting her partner, who was sent there after an alleged suicide attempt. They had no such policy. “Contrary to the reports and social media comments, the significant other of the patient has been granted visitation with the patient regularly since her admission to Franciscan St. Francis.” Then this similar story appeared corroborate that update: “Same-sex partner able to visit patient, contrary to partner’s claims, Indianapolis hospital says.”

When Clemmer finally became conscious a few days later, Bray was arrested and charged with battery and criminal confinement; the facts now appeared to be that she had beaten up Clemmer just before she brought her to the hospital, and that this violence was the cause of her injuries.

Jordan Brown

In 2018, Jordan Brown, a homosexual pastor, appeared in the national media to accuse a Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas of selling him a cake with an insulting word on it. He opened a lawsuit against the firm, demanding huge compensation. Whole Foods Market vigorously defended it, and showed CCTV footage of the cake being supplied in a sealed container. When it was returned, the seal had moved. Moreover they pointed out that the baker who had made it had been homosexual himself. Other members of the bakery team confirmed that nothing had been written on it apart from what was ordered. They counter-sued against Brown for defamation. It emerged that Brown had been facing legal action himself a few weeks earlier for non-payment of a student loan debt. He admitted he fabricated the entire the story for financial gain. When he cancelled his lawsuit, the shop cancelled their counter-suit.

Robyn Brown

Robyn alias "Gemma" Browne, real name James Darwin Browne, a 23-year-old transsexual prostitute, was found stabbed to death in his flat in London on 28 February 1997. Media, particularly LGBT media, reported this as being necessarily motivated by prejudice against his transsexual behavior. The case is listed on Wikipedia as a so-called "hate-crime". However, when the case was finally solved 12 years later using forensic evidence, it turned out that the killer, James Hopkins, had told his partner that his motive in going to the flat was to steal Browne's list of celebrity clients and blackmail them.

Azalea Cooley

In May 1992, Cooley, a black lesbian living in Portland, Oregon, claimed that vandals had spray-painted a swastika and "Burn, Nigger, Burn" on her house. She also said that she had cancer and was confined to a wheelchair. Their was a huge wave of indignation and sympathy for the 40-year-old former corrections officer. However, when police left a secret camera in her garden to try to catch the perpetrator it revealed that Cooley herself was carrying out the acts of vandalism. “A secret police videotape from that very morning showed a woman with close-cropped hair step past her wheelchair, stick a wooden cross in a flower pot on her back porch, and set it alight. It was Azalea. When detectives confronted her with the evidence, she slashed her wrists and was hospitalized. A week later, she penned a handwritten note, confessing that the incidents had been staged, and admitting that she didn’t have cancer or need a wheelchair.”

Kerri Dunn

In March 2004, Kerri Dunn, professor of social psychology at Claremont-McKenna college in Los Angeles California and a lesbian, claimed her car had been vandalized and spray-painted with insults such as “kike whore,” “nigger lover,” “ shut up,” and “bitch”. There was a huge outcry in the national media. But shortly afterwards, two independent witnesses came forward declaring that they saw Professor Dunn commit the vandalism on her own car. Now, it appears that Professor Dunn has a significant "rap sheet" for prior crimes. While living in Lincoln, Nebraska, the professor accumulated arrests for shoplifting, possessing stolen property, refusing to comply with a police officer's orders, driving on a suspended license, failing to appear in court and other crimes.

Ed Drago

In 2001, Ed Drago, a homosexual student at the College of New Jersey reported that he had been the victim of "antigay" messages. Drago, who helped found the Haven, a support group on campus for gay and lesbian students, claimed that he had received death threats and hate messages. Other students rallied to show their support. There were anti-hate demonstrations and candlelight vigils, and security was doubled at the student's dormitory building. At the rally Mr. Drago courageously stood up and proclaimed to his unknown tormentor: I'm not scared of you. Come and get me.

Anonymous abusive notes were posted on the gay student union's bulletin board, and in the lobby of his dorm. Other students said that Mr. Drago told them that he was an epileptic and was suffering more seizures as a result of the hate messages, and they said that he was sinking into a depression and had stopped going to classes.

However, after police carried out an investigation into the whole matter, they concluded that Drago had sent the messages to himself. It was also not true that he was epileptic.

April Mora

In March 2002, Mora, a 17-year-old lesbian in Denver, told police that she had been attacked by three men because she was gay and claimed that two of the men cut the words "dyke" and "RIP" into her flesh with razors, while they held her down in an alley near her house. The story drew national attention. After examination, a forensic pathologist and a physician concluded that Mora’s injuries were caused either by herself or another person, but not against her will. Gary Lauricella of the Denver Police department told Roleands.Org that doubts about the incident emerged because of discrepancies in the young woman’s descriptions of the attack. Further suspicion was aroused when Mora refused to take a polygraph test.

Dwight Walker

The Rev. Dwight Walker, a pastor and homosexual activist in Vermont, told police in April 2000, that his car had been set on fire by pro-family activists who were resisting the change of the law to permit same-sex marriage. Walker, who was also a pro-abortion activist, said the attack had occurred in the middle of the night.

After police investigated, Walker admitted that he started the fire himself. “I set the fire because I wanted people to see me as a victim,” he told police. The Boston Globe reported that he faced charges of third-degree arson, false reports to law enforcement officers, and burning to defraud an insurer. He pleaded no contest and resigned as a minister.

Kathryn Katalinich and Brooke Creef

In October 2012, two lesbians who had attended the Atlanta (Gay) Pride March told police they had been victims of a physical assault motivated by homophobia. The claim got coverage in the national LGBT press. Ms. Katalinich stated that she was assaulted by three people because she was a lesbian. but could not provide any substantive details about the incident. She suffered abrasions to both legs about the knee area as a result of allegedly being pushed down. Additionally she complained of pain to the right side of her face." Police could see abrasions on her knee but no any apparent injury to her face. Ms Creef her partner said they were attacked by two black men and an Asian woman. She stated that the incident started as a result of her directing several comments towards the Asian female, during which she referred to her as a ‘stripper’ and made negative comments about the way she was dressed,” according to the report.

“The Asian female uttered, ‘You look like a dike (sic).’ Both parties then engaged in a verbal confrontation yelling various negative epithets at each other. Ms. Creef alleged that Ms. Katalalinich approached the opposing party at which point one of the males pushed her down to the ground. Police concluded that Katalinich and Creef who “appeared to be moderately intoxicated,” had in fact started a drunken brawl and used insults, then falsely reported it as a homophobic attack.

Kyle Wood

In 2012, Kyle Wood, a homosexual Republican election campaign worker in Madison Wisconsin, was hospitalized after an apparent "gay-bashing" attack. He attributed it to homophobia. He told a newspaper,“I was getting ready for work and there was a knock at the door. I opened it, and a guy wrapped a ligature around my neck, slammed my head into the doorway, and smashed my face into a mirror, telling me ‘You should have kept your [f*******] mouth shut.’ He then kidney-punched me, while at the same time saying I was ‘warned,’ and continued to beat me.”

Wood pointed to graffiti he found painted on his car last week. The vandalism included the phrases “house trained republican faggot,” “traitor,” and “ur like a jew 4 hitler.” Wood wrote an open letter on Facebook to the unknown vandal. “If you understand either freedom or me at all,” he wrote, “you would that this will only make me work harder. … You can think whatever you like about me, but I will not be bullied into voting for a gay man simply because I am gay.” Later Wood admitted to police that he inflicted his own injuries, and wrote the graffiti on his own car.

Stuart Andrew, MP (suspected hoax)

In 2013, Stuart Andrew, member of Parliament for Leeds, UK, claimed to have been the victim of a "gay-bashing" attack. During the debate on redefining marriage (a measure which had never been in any election manifesto and therefore did not have voter mandate), Andrew, a homosexual, called defenders of man-woman marriage "extreme" and claimed that in North Wales, in 1997, he had been "set upon by a gang of men in the street “because of who and what I am”", and he had been "beaten unconscious" and needed hospital treatment.

However, when challenged to provide evidence of this, he was unable to show any corroboration of any kind. There were no photographs, no police records and no hospital records from 1997 to support his claim. No such event was mentioned in the local press at the time he alluded to, and no health records have been shown to confirm that he needed treatment. He stated later, when challenged to show proof, that he had not reported the savage attack to the local police force. He could not name the hospital where he claimed to have received treatment, or produce any witnesses to his injuries.

Mallory Owens

In November 2012, a lesbian in Mobile, Alabama called Mallory Owens, circulated horrific pictures of her bruised face on Facebook, claiming she had been beaten up for being gay. Police arrested 18-year-old Travis Hawkins, Jr., whose sister was Mallory's lesbian partner.

While the attack had taken place, the motive was not homophobia: it later transpired that 23-year-old Mallory was getting his sister involved in drugs and prostitution. They never were able to upgrade the charge to include it as a hate crime.

Regan Wolf

In December 1997, Regan Wolf of Lancaster County, South Carolina, claimed that she was beaten and tied up by an intruder at her home. She was found on her front porch on Dec. 26 with abrasions across her back and her hands and feet tied. A sexual epithet was spray-painted in red on the porch steps. She alleged another beating the following May. However it emerged Ms. Wolf, 40, had offered a friend $350 to administer one beating, and police concluded both incidents were fake.

Wolf's reported assaults became the very symbol of the movement for hate crimes legislation. But in July she faced charges of giving false information to a police officer. A state senator had used Ms. Wolf's story in an effort to gain support for his hate-crime bill, but the measure failed after a dispute over whether offenses based on sexual orientation should be covered.

Joe Williams

In November 2013, Joe Williams, owner of the Healthy Thyme Health Food Store in Paris,Tennessee, told police he had been robbed and beaten by intruders a few days before Thanksgiving. 32-year-old Williams told the Paris Post-Intelligencer that a man had come into the shop earlier that day and asked him about his sexuality, before responding that he could not shop there if he was gay. Williams claimed that later three men had come into his shop, beat him up, called him derogatory names, wrote a “three-letter homophobic slur” on his forehead and then set the place on fire, causing about $5,500 in damage.

“I just fear for my life,” Williams told Fox 17. “I’m to the point now where I’m worried to even go outside … I live my life as a gay man and wasn’t ashamed of it and I just feel that I was targeted for that for that reason.” But after a police investigation, Williams was arrested, and charged with filing a false report.

Transgender Teen Faked Assault

In March 2014, a transgender student in San Francisco, California who claimed to have been beaten and sexually assaulted in a school bathroom recanted after a police investigation failed to back up her story. The girl, aged 15, who was pretending to be a boy, was using the boy's toilets at Hercules High School, as she is now legally entitled to do under "gender" legislation. She claimed that three boys pushed her inside a large stall and attacked her. She finally admitted she had made up the story during the follow-up interview with a detective. Her name was withheld from the press, although those of most such fraudsters are routinely released.

Hercules High School is the same campus where 16-year-old transgender student Jewlyes Gutierrez got into a fight the November with three girls, who she said were bullying and taunting her. Battery charges against Gutierrez were dropped and replaced with a conflict resolution program, because he/she is transgender.

TC Equality Uganda Hoax

In 2013, TC Equality, a homosexual activist group in Michigan, circulated a photograph claiming that it showed a homosexual in Uganda who had been burned alive for homosexuality. The picture was energetically circulated by LGBT groups all over the world, and went viral on Facebook.

But it showed nothing of the kind. The picture had really been taken some time before, and showed a scene in Kenya. In fact the man who took the original picture has publicly stated that he took it in the Kibera slum in Kenya. The victim was a thief who was terrorizing people, and he was lynched, then his body was burned. The whole incident had nothing to do with homosexuality.

No LGBT group ever apologized for the fraud, although many had used this picture to attack and vilify Rev. Scott Lively.

The false claim is still there on the internet, and comes up on Google if you search for "Gay person burned alive by anti-gay mob in Uganda".

Richard Kennedy

In 2014, Richard Kennedy of Blackpool, in the North of England, told police he was set upon by a gang of homophobes when he left a gay nightclub in Preston, Lancashire. Kennedy, a drama student aged 18, posted lurid photographs on Facebook of his battered and bleeding face, dislodged teeth, and gaping knee wound, with the caption 'An example [of] why homophobia is wrong and it's disgusting that it's still around in 2014'. The post was shared by more than 182,000 well-wishers. It was also featured in Pink News and other LGBT periodicals as an example of hate-crime. Kennedy claimed he had been followed when going home from a night club by a gang of men shouting homophobic abuse, who had then beaten him severely.

Police checked on the CCTV images of the area, and saw quite clearly that all that had happened was that Kennedy had tripped over, and injured himself on the pavement. The abuse and the gang of attackers were all imaginary. When faced with the video evidence, Kennedy admitted he caused his injuries himself when he tripped on the pavement, but still insisted that he had believed the allegations when he made them.

Police did not bring any charges against him for wasting their time, as would usually be brought in the case of heterosexuals.

Mary K., Tamalpais High School

In 2004, a student at Tamalpais High School California claimed that abusive graffiti had been scrawled on her locker. Mary K. told the teachers that she did not know who had written "FAG" on her locker, but it must be homophobes because she was lesbian. A few days later the words "Die Faggot" appeared, triggering an outpouring of sympathy.

The girl claimed she had been the victim of repeated attacks since the previous term – including anti-gay inscriptions on her locker and car, a typewritten letter sent to her home, and by being pelted with eggs outside her home. No perpetrator was ever found, but some time afterwards, she admitted she faked the incidents, because she had not done her homework. Mary told Buzzfeed’s Sandra Allen that she faked it all, because she hadn’t done her homework. “None of it. Hadn’t read anything, hadn’t done the notes. I don’t remember what the assignment was, but it was something that we had a week or two to do and I hadn’t done any of it.” “So I broke into the locker room and I graffitied my locker,” she said. “The individual’s own statements substantiated the evidence previously gathered as to the source of the vandalism and annoying phone calls,” said Mill Valley Police Capt. James Wickham. “It has been determined that all the incidents have been committed by a single individual.”

Mary K, was the head of the school's Gay, Lesbian and Straight Alliance (GLAD).

Adam Hoover

In 2015, Adam Hoover, a homosexual activist in Cincinnati,Ohio, was charged with faking his own abduction. The 20-year-old claimed online that he had been thrown into the trunk of his own car and kidnapped. "Please help me I'm in the trunk of my ford escort red 2000 gbh 2812," the 20-year-old wrote. "They said they are going to kill my family please call 911 I don't want them to hear me." He included his mother's phone number and his family's address. "Please please call. I don't want to die," he added.

The plea for help spread quickly on social media and sparked an immediate search in the Cincinnati area. But after investigating, Green Township police and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office believe the kidnapping was a hoax. Authorities discovered Hoover's car abandoned on a highway near the Ohio-Indiana border, WLWT reported. He was seen coming out of a nearby home with police and was unharmed, according to the station. Police didn't immediately release a motive for why Hoover allegedly faked his own abduction. He was charged with a misdemeanor.

Jonathan Snipes and Ethan York-Adams

In 2015, Jonathan Snipes and his boyfriend Ethan York-Adams claimed they were beaten in a BBQ restaurant for homophobic motives. They alleged their attacker had used "gay slurs" and hit them over the head with a chair. Doubt was shed on their accusations when film of the incident was shown to police. It first emerged that the pair had knocked over a drink on someone else's table, leading to a drunken brawl. It then emerged that the man they accused was a well-known homosexual himself. No charges were brought.

Carol Ann and Laura Stutte

In 2010, Carol Ann and Laura Stutte, a same sex couple in Venore, Tennessee, reported that their house had been burnt to the ground in a "homophobic" attack. They blamed their neighbor. The house had indeed been burned down, but an investigation concluded that that they had started the fire for an insurance fraud, and a jury ruled that the couple spray painted an anti-gay slur on their own garage to make the fire look like a hate crime.

Frank Elliot

In 2012, a Chicago area gay-bar owner, Frank Elliott, reported that his business, The Velvet Rope Ultra Lounge in Oak Park, had been targeted, the walls painted with gay slurs and the building set on fire. three years later, in 2015, Elliot admitted he started the fire himself, and pleaded guilty to arson and insurance fraud. Prosecutors said Elliott doused the bar in alcohol, wrote “gay” slurs on the wall, then set it on fire. He was sentenced to two years’ probation and had to pay back $107,000 to two insurance companies.

Mari Poindexter

When Mari Poindexter, a young woman of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina reported on social media in 2015 that she had been punched in the face and verbally abused in a car park, just for being a lesbian, the post got 3,000 comments and more than 1,800 shares in one day. She thrived on the attention, and took the story to the newspapers. She gave her readers a lecture on "inclusiveness". However, after she reported it to the police, and they mentioned that there was a security camera in the parking lot, she started to get cold feet. “(Poindexter said) she made the story up about being assaulted by a male subject at the bar and punched herself in the eye because she wanted to raise awareness about the social hardships of people in the LGBTQ+ community,” read a police statement in the court records. Originally Poindexter was charged with lying to a police officer and filing a false police report, but eventually the misdemeanor for lying to a police officer was dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on the false report charge, also a misdemeanor. Poindexter entered the plea in January and was sentenced on Feb. 25 to $225 in fines and six months probation according to court records.

Calum McSwiggan

In November 2016, Calum McSwiggan, 26, a British man living in West Hollywood, posted a photo of himself on social media, claiming that he was attacked outside a gay bar. He was arrested when officers went to the scene “after deputies observed him vandalizing a car.” He told police that he was assaulted by three men outside the club yet he “had no visible injuries”. The 26-year-old was booked and photographed and placed in a cell by himself at the West Hollywood Station. It was there that station personnel say McSwiggan “was then observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell.” Police concluded that McSwiggan, who is well known as an LGBT activist on YouTube, had got into a disagreement with the car owner and damaged the vehicle out of rage. He then faked his injuries in the hope of persuading police that he had been provoked by a "homophobic" attack.

Taylor Volk

In 2016, an openly bisexual Chicago student who claimed she received anti-gay, pro-Donald Trump notes and emails after the presidential election was found to have fabricated the entire story, North Park University said. Volk told a local NBC News affiliate that she found one of the notes taped to her door, reading “Back to hell” and “#Trump” along with “homophobic” slurs. “Sadly, we discovered that the incident and related messages were fabricated; the individual responsible for the incident is not continuing as a student at North Park,” the Christian university’s President David Parkyn said in a statement. “We are confident there is no further threat of repeated intolerance to any member of our campus community stemming from this recent incident.

Alex McGillis

In November 2006, Alex “A.J.” McGillis, 20, of Boise University, Idaho claimed to have been attacked on campus. He told police a white male struck him from behind with an object while using anti-gay expletives and proceeded to hit him in the face several times, causing him to lose consciousness. The story quickly prompted student and administrative organizations around Boise State to sponsor the “No Oppression Tolerated, Not On Our Campus,” rally and a candlelight vigil on the Quad. McGillis later admitted to authorities he used a stick and his own fists to self-inflict his injuries. Police stated the information was false shortly after the alleged incident.

David Morley

David Morley, barman of The Admiral Duncan pub, who was injured in the bombing in 1999, was murdered in London on 30 October 2004. He was homosexual and his death was for a time wrongly supposed to be a "homophobic" attack. See Killing of David Morley

Dayna Morales

In 2013, Dayna Morales, a lesbian waitress at the Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, New Jersey posted a claim on Facebook that she had been the victim of anti-gay rudeness and discrimination. She claimed a family she served had returned the bill to her with no tip and bearing the words, "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and how you live your life." Morales, a former Marine, posted a picture of the check on the "Have A Gay Day" Facebook page, with the words scrawled across it. She added a little rant about homophobia.“I am THOROUGHLY offended, mad, p---ed off and hurt that THIS is what her kids will grow up learning and that I served in the Marines to keep ignorant people like them free,” she wrote.

The story went viral on the internet. LGBTs and their loyal allies gavee it huge media coverage. Then Dayna's fraud was exposed when the family she had served contacted the press and posted online their own customer copy of the invoice, which had nothing written on it, and moreover proved that they had left the waitress a handsome tip of $18, about 20% of the bill.

Aimee Whitchurch and Christel Conklin

In 2011, Aimee Whitchurch and Christel Conklin of Parker, Colorado, called police and reported that the message “Kill The Gay” was spray-painted on their garage door along with a bulls-eye on their front door. The next night they found a noose at the front door. Then they reported that someone left dog feces and keyed their car. The Advocate, and many others picked up the story. The Anti-Defamation League was outraged and demanded answers. Even the FBI got involved. However, they and the police concluded that Whitchurch and Conklin had carried out the damage themselves. At first, they denied everything and tried to blame it all on a person that they had staying with them. Eventually, they pleaded guilty to false reporting.

Charlie Rogers

In 2012, Charlie Rogers a lesbian of Lincoln, Nebraska, crawled to a neighbor's house in the middle of the night. Rogers told Nebraska police that three masked men had broken into her home, bound her with plastic zip ties, carved a cross into her chest and anti-gay slurs into her arms and stomach, spray painted smears onto her walls, then tried to set her house afire. The story triggered a huge outpouring of sympathy, indignation and LGBT rhetoric. Candlelight vigils and rallies were organized. But it was not true.

“The evidence is overwhelming that Charlie Rogers’ narrative of July 22, 2012, was an incredible and outrageous lie,” said Judge Gale Pokorny during sentencing at Lancaster County Courthouse.

Lincoln police found the bed where Rogers was allegedly tied and tortured was unruffled and without a spot of blood. FBI pathologist Michelle Elieff concluded the wounds were superficial and self-inflicted. Detectives learned that Rogers had purchased the items used in the alleged assault, and they found DNA that “matched Miss Rogers” inside the white gloves of one of the “perpetrators.” Faced with the evidence, Rogers, a former University of Nebraska women’s basketball star, pleaded “no contest” to making a false report.

Rogers deliberately implicated Christians by carving a cross on her own chest. The maximum sentence for this crime was one year, yet Rogers got away with a seven-day sentence.

Police say Rogers invented the gruesome story to gain support for the homosexual political agenda. The “hate crime” took place as the city was debating a gay rights measure, the “Fairness Ordinance.”

Just before the event, Rogers posted on Facebook: “So maybe I am too idealistic, but I believe way deep inside me that we can make things better for everyone. I will be a catalyst. I will do what it takes. I will. Watch me.”

Alexandra Pennell

In June 2012, Pennell, a 19-year-old student at Central Connecticut State University, claimed she was a victim of a hate-crime. She showed campus police a series of anonymous homophobic notes that she said had been slid under the door of her room. Her complaint sparked a campus ‘Solidarity Rally’ and Pennell became an instantaneous star.

The Campus police set up a hidden camera to catch the perpetrator. Notes continued to arrive under Alexandra’s door, but the camera was mysteriously disabled before anyone could be caught. The Campus police became suspicious. They told Pennell that they had to take the camera away to get it fixed, and they secretly replaced the first camera with a second one. The second camera caught Pennell in the act of sliding hate notes under her own door. She was charged with several felonies and barred from the university system for five years.(Originally reported in The Hartford Courant.)

Quinn Matney

In 2011, Quinn Matney, a student at Chapel Hill, University ofNorth Carolina, alleged that he had been attacked on campus by a man who walked up to him, called him a “f**king f*g,” said “here is a taste of hell,” and branded his arm with a hot metal object. The reference to hell was meant to smear Christians. Chancellor Holden Thorp pledged that the university’s public safety department “will bring the strongest possible charges against the attacker.” The story was flashed around the nation, stirring up horror and declarations of solidarity with the "gay" community etc etc.

Shortly afterwards, Matney's own father revealed that the 19-year-old freshman had accidentally burned himself, and then invented the story. "Freshman Quinn Matney told a lie. But he never meant for it to snowball into a falsified police report that rallied the community around him and reached the nation, his father said Wednesday.

Matney told campus police a man branded his wrist at 3 a.m. April 4 on the footbridge outside of Craige Residence Hall. But the injury was self-inflicted, his father said.

“A friend saw the wound, and he was embarrassed to say it was self-inflicted. He made up something on the spot, thought that would be the end of it,” said David Matney III after consulting his son".

His father asked the university not to press charges, and they agreed to that. Instead, he got counselling.

Paul Marquardt

In 2007, Paul Marquardt, a senior student at Minnesota State University, claimed he had been attacked by four men who shouted homosexual slurs at him and knocked him unconscious. Marquardt, 23, from Edina, MN went to the police yet could not provide them with any details about the attackers, apart from claiming that they has "spouted antigay hate-speech".

The Fargo-Moorhead Ten Percent Society an LGBT group, was eager to exploit the crime stating, “As far as we know, this is the first recorded hate crime in the city of Moorhead.” They planned a rally to protest mightily. This rally had to be abandoned after police decided there were too many inconsistencies in Marquardt’s story. The more he spoke, the more confused his story became. Eventually Marquardt admitted to police chief Bob Larson that there had been no "screaming homophobic hooligans". He recanted the story.

Genesis Hernandez

In 2013, there was a mysterious outbreak of antigay messages scrawled on walls at the exclusive Vassar College in New York. There were also racist epithets. They included “Avoid Being Bitches,” “F**k N*gg*rs,” and “Hey Tranny. Know Your Place.” Vassar's Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) Coordinator and dean of the College for Campus Life and Diversity, Edward Pittman, released this message, “This is unacceptable and members of our community should be able to learn and work in environments that are free of hurtful expressions and behaviors.”

It emerged that these graffiti were perpetrated by the same two people who reported them. The Daily Caller found out that one of them was transgender student Genesis Hernandez, “vice president of the Vassar Student Association (VSA), the student government, and the student member of the Bias Incident Response Team.” Nothing like drumming up business for your own brand! The two students withdrew from Vassar voluntarily.

Floyd Elliott

In 2004, Floyd Elliott of Independence, Missouri told police that two men attacked him in the parking lot and “cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and attempted to carve the word ‘F*g’ on his forehead.” The fact that the word on his forehead was written backwards made the police suspicious that attackers might be dyslexic or that Elliot’s story might not be true.

The fact that the word was carved correctly on Elliot’s chest, eliminated the dyslexia angle and left the police to conclude that the attack was a hoax. Elliot later admitted that he falsely reported the crime to increase police presence in his neighborhood. Elliot, aged 22, was charged with making a false report. His scam made it into the Congressional Record, where his story was used to push “hate crime” legislation.

Dylan Bleier and Matt Alden

In 2012-13, there was an apparent spate of "hate-crimes" at the expensive Oberlin College, near Cleveland, Ohio. These incidents reached international headlines, and were reported in The Associated Press, the New York Times, MSNBC, Yahoo News, and the Huffington Post, which all lapped up the tale of supposed racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. Throughout the winter, anti-black and anti-gay graffiti, including swastikas, appeared on campus and somebody claimed to have seen a figure in a Klu Klux Klan hood. Black Entertainment Television News decried the hate outbreaks.

As the hysteria rose, classes were shut down. Then the KKK member turned out to be a female student with her hair wrapped in a towel. Eventually, according to police reports published by Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller News Foundation in August 2013, two students confessed to writing the graffiti. They were Dylan Bleier (a student worker for President Obama’s Organizing for Action and a member of the Oberlin College Democrats) and Matthew Alden. Bleier told police the pair posted inflammatory signs and a Nazi flag around campus to “joke” with and “troll” their peers.

The school tried to keep this story silent. They probably knew who the perpetrators were long before they announced it because they had traced IPs. Dylan Bleier and Matt Alden were reportedly suspended and removed from campus.

Haakon Gisvold

In August 2015, Haakon Gisvold accused members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of North Dakota of throwing him out of a party because he was homosexual. If he had left it at that he might have been able to get away with the accusation. But Gisvold had to elaborate his tale. He claimed that Lambda Chi members also beat him, choked him, stripped him and robbed him — all while shouting anti-gay insults. He said he hid in some bush wearing only his underwear until some kind soul came along with some clothes.

The story was reported in the the Huffington Post, which allowed Gisvold, aged 18, to preach a little sermon on its website. “I just want those guys to learn from this,” he said. “They could go to jail, sure, but they could go to jail and then come out with the same mindset that they don’t like homosexuals.”

Police investigated and after questioning 150 possible witnesses could find no evidence for any part of his story. The fact was that Gisvold had no right to be at the meeting or even on the campus as he was not a student at the university. He had no connection with it.

Rick Jones

In June 2015, Rick Jones, whose family own a pizzeria in Delta,Utah, claimed that he had been the victim of a series of anti-gay hate-crimes. He said that in April, someone attacked him at the pizzeria, beat up and carved the words ‘die’ and ‘f*g’ into his arms with a knife. Five days later, the family’s home was found spray-painted with a homophobic slur. On June 10, a rock and a Molotov cocktail were thrown through the window of Jones’ home. That same day, the Jones family’s Grand Central Pizzeria and Grill was broken into, spray-painted with the same two words,and robbed of $1,400.

21-year-old Jones told KSL-TV earlier he believed he was targeted because he was gay. Speaking to CNN in early June, Jones described in detail the horrific April attack in which someone ambushed him as he went to throw out the garbage at his family’s restaurant after closing time. ‘I was knocked out and then suddenly someone was forcing my legs and hands down and trying to get me to drink bleach,’ Jones claimed. He said he awakened a few hours later in a hospital with a concussion and the words ‘die’ and ‘f*g’ carved into his arms.

Utah’s community rallied around Jones, raising close to $12,000 online towards his medical expenses. The Utah Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. But Millard county police concluded that he had carried out all the damage himself, including scratching the words on his own arms and Jones finally admitted it.

Curtis Campbell

In March 2017, Curtis Campbell, a 50-year-old homosexual in New York, accused Grant Leach, 26, of spewing hate speech, threatening him and kicking him in the stomach outside Madison Square Garden. Campbell told the Daily News that he was standing on Seventh Ave. near W. 33rd St. with a friend when Leach accosted him, "physically and verbally assaulting" him. Campbell said that Leach told him, "You're a f-----, you're a h---. I'll kill you."

Cops arrested Leach but after investigating video footage of the area dropped the charges, because it "does not corroborate the victim's account of events." Moreover Campbell allegedly grabbed a metal object and swung it at Leach, according to court papers. It could not immediately confirmed whether Campbell will be investigated for assault or for filing a false report.

Adam Catanzarite

In July 2014, Catanzarite, an LGBT activist in Portland, Oregon, claimed that an employee of the Apple Store put a homophobic slur on his receipt. He posted a receipt with an Email f@g.com. However, someone who read the story revealed that when you make an appointment at an Apple store, it is the customer, not the store staff, who provides the Email. "1. Make an appointment online with any Apple store or other online merchants. 2. During registering process, enter any valid email, even f@g.com. 3. Go to store and get your receipt. You will see the info you had provided printed on your receipt."

Eric L Sturgis, Lee E Brovold and Michelle L Murray

In 1994, three homosexual residents of Tacoma, Seattle, reported that they had returned from a Gay Pride Event in Canada to find their apartment vandalized with homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti. There was systematic damage to furniture and plumbing. They got a lot of publicity, and donations of money and goods. All three ended up being charged with insurance fraud and threat to murder people who told police it was a hoax.

Julian Kinzel

In January 2016, Julian Kinzel, a homosexual in Wismar, Germany, claimed that three right wing extremists slashed him 17 times with a knife while calling him a “gay communist”. From the start, the prosecutors were suspicious as Kinzel had not gone straight to the police or a hospital but notified them on the internet. After he was subjected to forensic medical examination, the investigators concluded that Kinzel invented the attack. According to a statement from the Rostock police the "type of injuries do not correspond to the sequence of events that has been claimed in the attack." On the contrary, it is "sufficiently probable" that Kinzel inflicted the injuries himself. The prosecution dismissed it as a hoax.

Clément Méric

In June 2013, Pink News reported the death of Clement Méric, a young left-wing activist who died of his injuries after getting into a street fight, claiming that he was a "gay rights campaigner". It presented Méric as an innocent victim of lynching, blaming pro-family campaigners from the Christian La Manif Pour Tous movement. In fact, Méric was neither homosexual nor a "gay rights" campaigner, and even his supporters admit that he died in a brawl outside a clothing store, nothing to do with La Manif or any pro-family demonstration. He was a far-left thug, of the notorious Antifa movement, who go out looking for violent confrontation. CCTV cameras recorded the scuffle that took place, showing that Méric had been the aggressor, taunting and insulting unarmed people because they were dressed as skinheads and trying to provoke a fight. Meric had struck the first blow, attacking his victim from behind. When they fought back, he accidentally hit his head on a metal post, which caused the head injuries that led to his death. It was proved after his death that he had been armed when he went out, and he had been admitted to hospital one month earlier for injuries in another street battle. None of the people he attacked was armed. The allegations in Pink News were repeated several times in the British LGBT newspaper The Guardian, which often acts as an echo-chamber for Pink News. They repeated the allegations in more than one article. Although the French inquest and police report were published refuting their smear-story, neither publication has never apologized or retracted its slanders against the pro-family movement.

George Nathaniel “Nathan” Stang

In November 2016, St. David’s Episcopal Church, a pro-LGBT church in Bean Blossom, Indiana, was spray-painted with graffiti — the messages “Heil Trump,” “Fag Church,” and a swastika. The case made national headlines. George Nathaniel “Nathan” Stang, the church’s organist, a homosexual aged 26, reported finding the graffiti shortly before a Sunday morning service. Police noted that his own mobile phone records proved he had been in the area late the previous night. When confronted with the evidence, Stang admitted carrying out the vandalism, because as a Democrat supporter he wanted to smear Republicans and rally opposition to the recently-elected Donald Trump. Brown County Prosecutor Ted Adams filed a criminal mischief charge against Stang.

Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows issued the following statement: "I was saddened to learn this morning that the vandalism of St. David’s Church in Bean Blossom was committed by the church’s organist, Nathan Stang, who has admitted to police that he spray painted hateful graffiti on the church last November in the wake of the presidential election. This was a hurtful, dishonest, and profoundly misguided action that stands against the values of the people of this diocese and the Episcopal Church, and we will continue to cooperate with the authorities who are pursuing this case."

Nicholas Butler

Nicholas Butler, a homosexual in Melbourne, Australia, claimed on his Facebook page that he had been abused and intimidated by conservatives at the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House when he attended a demonstration ‘Stand Up For Parents’ Rights: Stop Sexualising Our Children’ held by parents in April 2018. They were protesting against the so-called "Safe Schools Programme" which actually promotes all kinds of unsafe and harmful behaviours - homosexuality, promiscuity and surgical sex-change. Butler turned up to picket and disrupt the rally, waving a large rainbow flag. He wrote "I almost got attacked by the whole crowd." His claims were duly repeated in the LGBT magazine "Star Observer" together with false accusations about the parents who simply want to protect their children. Unfortunately for Butler, his attendance was videoed by one of the campaigners, Avi Yemini, who was described as a "far-right extremist" by the Star Observer. Yemini put the video on his own Facebook page, proving that Butler was a liar who had gone to the rally to make trouble and had never been threatened or intimidated by anyone. He had just been called a "poofter" once. Then police advised him to leave.

Miranda Prather

In July 1997, Prather was a graduate assistant and president of the campus gay and lesbian support group at Eastern New Mexico University. In July 1997, posters began appearing in various locations on ENMU campus, as well as in a town laundromat, that read: "Are you sick of queers polluting this great land with there [sic] filth? I thought so. Want to do something? Join the Fist of God. With his might, we can ride [sic] the world of there [sic] sickness. Ask around. We'll find you." and "Take us seriously, or we'll begin executing one queer a week following this list." The poster listed eight graduate students and professors, and accused them of being gay or lesbians. Prather's name was at the top of the list. Threatening emails were sent to all on the list.

The following day, Prather reported to Portales police that she had been attacked in her home by two masked assailants, and the investigation began. A surveillance tape obtained from the laundromat where one of the posters first appeared seemed to solve the case: the person placing signs was Prather herself. A search warrant was executed on her home. She was arrested and charged with seven counts of harassment and one charge of tampering with evidence, which she vehemently denied. She claimed that a woman named "Jessica Forrester" who looked just like her and was obsessed with her was the true culprit behind the crimes. Prather claimed Forrester forced her to circulate the posters, and suggested Forrester got plastic surgery to make herself look just like Prather. Police were unable to find anyone by that name or description. The case went to court where Prather agreed to plead guilty to three charges of harassment in return for the other four charges being dropped and a sentence of 3 years probation instead of jail time.

Prather now works as the executive director of PublishAmerica.

HumanRightsWatch Russian Video

When the Olympic games were allocated to Russia in 2014, there was a concerted campaign by LGBT groups world-wide to get them cancelled or boycotted because of Russia's law against the promotion of homosexuality. The campaign started in 2013, with prominent LGBT activists such as Stephen Fry denouncing Russia and saying that the games must be stopped. The pro-LGBT group Human Rights Watch released a video, that purported to show a teenage male being bullied by older men because he was homosexual. They claimed this had been made by a Russian anti-homosexual group. They could not explain why any such group would make such a video or circulate it on world internet websites just to publicize their activities. Russian police said there was no such group. No such videos, photographs or claims had every been circulated before the Sochi Olympics and none were ever circulated again after the Sochi Olympics. Nevertheless the video went viral and was devoutly believed by those who believe the rest of LGBT propaganda.

Harvey Milk, San Francisco 1977

During his fourth and final campaign to be elected city supervisor, Milk’s camera store in Castro Street was attacked with low-grade explosives and its glass front broken. Milk blamed anti-gay vandals and used the incident to gain favorable publicity in the press, helping him to finally get elected after years of failure. However his biographer Randy Shilts questioned Milk's friends and drew a very different conclusion. “Friends hinted broadly that Harvey had more than a little foreknowledge that the explosions would happen...You gotta realize the campaign was sort of going slow, and, well...”

Category 2. False Allegations or Misinterpreted Events

Matthew Shepard

A Wyoming college student killed in 1998. The notion that Shepard was murdered for his homosexual behavior originally came from two friends of his, Walt Boulden and Alex Trout. Just hours after Matthew was discovered and before his attackers were identified, they began spreading the word that Matthew may have been attacked because he was homosexual. They called the county attorney’s office and the media and blamed “homophobia”. The media took the bait, LGBT groups all over the USA seized on the case to gain publicity, the politicians swallowed the story too, and a U.S. law was passed in Matthew Shepard’s name "The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act".

However as early as 2004, the true facts started to spill out, and in 2014, Stephen Jimenez, a journalist (who happens to be homosexual himself) published a full investigation in his book The Book of Matt.

Matthew Shepard, a long-term drug user and dealer, was actually killed by other members of a drug gang he was involved with. They had been told he had a stash of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 and they wanted to get their hands on it. One of the convicted killers, Aaron McKinney, had himself had a homosexual relationship with Shepard; the two convicted attackers went on that same night to carry out a second crime of the same sort. They robbed and beat up another man who was not a homosexual, but did not kill him, because he he had a friend who ran to his aid.

Ben Fritzen, a former police detective and one of the lead investigators on the case, told Vargas it was drugs and money that motivated the attack on Shepard. “Matthew Shepard’s sexual preference or sexual orientation certainly wasn’t the motive in the homicide. If it wasn’t Shepard, they would have found another easy target. What it came down to, really, is drugs and money and two punks that were out looking for it,” he told ABC.

"Chanelle" Pickett 1995

Roman Chanelle Pickett, 23, a male prostitute posing as a woman, died of drug-related causes at the Boston home of homosexual William C. Palmer. Both were regular drug-abusers and had snorted cocaine before Pickett was strangled. Palmer turned himself in the next morning saying it was an accidental death and later claimed he did not know Pickett was male. Palmer had written a letter to Pickett expressing his affection. LGBT activists insist on presenting this as a case of a transgender victim rather than of a violent homosexual man and dangerous patterns of drug-abuse among homosexuals. Palmer was acquitted of murder but convicted of assault after two narcotics experts testified that Pickett died from "an overdose of crack cocaine".

Admiral Duncan Pub bombing

Terror attack carried out in UK in 1999, usually considered contrary to the evidence, to be a "homophobic" attack. See The Admiral Duncan.

Bar-Noar Club Shooting

In 2009, a homosexual club in Tel-Aviv, Israel, was attacked and three men were shot. The press and LGBT groups immediately jumped to blame orthodox Jews, whom they suspected of hostility to the club. Four years later police arrested four suspects including one homosexual man, and charged them with murder, motivated not by "homophobia" but by personal vengeance and vendettas.

Supposed Attack on a Homosexual Bar in Lille

In 2013, the LGBT press reported that there had been an attack on a "gay bar" in Lille, France, and suggested that the pro-family movement La Manif Pour Tous were to blame. The story was repeated in The Guardian, and reports suggested that the bar had been vandalized, pillaged or even burnt down. In fact, the incident was a minor one and consisted of nothing but three men going into a bar during normal opening hours, ordering drinks and getting into a drunken tussle. The management claimed they had used terms of "homophobic" abuse but the suspects charged always denied it. The gravest violence was that somebody had thrown a stool. No other damage was sustained and none of the suspects had any links with any pro-family group. A special lawyer was appointed by Lesbian and Gay Pride Lille, and as a result of their allegations of "hate crime" the three men were given a one-year sentence. The mainstream press in France pointed out that this was excessive, but the LGBT press which had misreported the event never retracted or apologized.

David Kato Kisule

David Kato Kisule, a homosexual activist in Uganda, was killed in 2011 and the crime immediately reported as a "hate-crime". It was nothing of the sort. Kato was murdered by a young man from whom he was demanding homosexual services. Stephen T. K. Katenta-Apuli, the Ugandan ambassador to the European Union, explained the true facts in an open letter to the President of the European Parliament. He wrote to “correct an impression Members of the European Parliament may have that the murder of David Kato was a result of his championing the rights of gays and lesbians in Uganda …..nothing could be farther from the truth.” Mr Katenta-Apuli exposed the true facts about how Kato had died in a sordid dispute with a young man who did not wish to be used as a male prostitute, adding, that David Kato “should share responsibility in this very unfortunate incident”. The killer was convicted and jailed.

Boston Subway case 2012

A fight broke out on a stairwell in a Boston subway station, between three girls and a man, after he accidentally knocked one of them with his backpack. He told police that the girls had attacked and beaten him up for being homosexual. The three girls, Erika and Felicia Stroud and Lydia Sanford, who were all black, accused the man who was white, aged 43, of being racially motivated. The mother of the two sisters pointed out that all three girls were openly lesbian themselves so would hardly have attacked somebody for being gay. Eventually charges on both sides were dropped.

Wilfred de Bruijn

In April 2013 the homosexual website Pink News claimed that a man named Wilfred Bruijn had been beaten up in Paris, France for being homosexual. It blamed this "homophobic attack" on the pro-family organization La Manif Pour Tous. PN backed it up with a shocking picture of a man's bruised face, which was widely copied together with the allegations. They also phrased it in such a away as to suggest that two homosexuals had been assaulted. "Gay couple beaten..." They repeated the story several times, each time with the emotive shocking photograph, and used this to claim that there had been a rise in homophobic attacks. In fact La Manif is a completely peaceful movement and police investigation concluded that the incident had no "homophobic" motivation whatsoever. The four people convicted were not in any way connected with La Manif Pour Tous and had no idea that the victims were homosexual. Nevertheless, Pink News refused to withdraw its accusations or to apologize for the affront to LMPT. Bruijn, a librarian, is also a known LGBT activist.

Raymond Taavel

A homosexual activist in Canada whose death on April 17, 2012, is wrongly classed as "antigay violence" in Wikipedia. Taavel, who campaigned in Halifax was beaten to death outside Menz & Mollyz, a homosexual bar on the city's Gottingen Street. He had attempted to break up a fight between two men, one of whom was Andre Denny, a paranoid schizophrenic on an unsupervised leave from a nearby forensic hospital. Denny then attacked and killed Taavel. Taavel was a former chair of Halifax Pride, the city's gay pride festival, and a former editor at the LGBT magazine Wayves and the spiritual magazine Lion's Roar. Over 1,000 people attended a vigil in Taavel's memory later the same evening, which included performances by poet Tanya Davis, actor and writer Stewart Legere and singer-songwriters Rose Cousins and Ria Mae. Police did not categorize the case as a "hate crime".

Vladislav Tornovoi, 2013

A man aged 23 whose body was found dead in the Russian city of Volgograd in May 2013 was widely reported as having been the victim of a "homophobic attack". LGBT activists used the case for publicizing their grievances about Russia but the investigators and the victim's own family stated that he had not been homosexual. His friend Igor Kekshin who had known him since childhood said he had shown no interest in other men.

Burning of Man in Ghana

A video was uploaded to the internet in January 2014 claiming to show a man in Ghana being burned alive "for being gay". But the people who uploaded it could not identify the victim, the place, the date, the attackers, or even what country it came from. They said it may have originated in Ghana, Uganda or South Africa. There was absolutely no proof at all that the incident was connected with homosexuality.

Alleged Machete Attack in London

In July 2019 British newspapers had a melodramatic headline about a "Homophobic machete attack". The incident happened in Southwark, South-East London. The printed account in the Daily Express said that two black men had been shopping together in a Sainsbury's when they got into a dispute with a stranger. The first two men thought the stranger had used the word "faggots" and "tussle ensued" i.e. they attacked him first. The fight continued outside, and the third man, finding himself outnumbered, pulled out a knife, slashed one of his opponents on the thigh and then escaped on a motorbike. The allegation that this was a "homophobic" attack depended solely on the accusation of one of the first two men, who could not explain how the stranger would have known whether he was homosexual. An onlooker claimed the knife had been huge like a machete but this was not corroborated by any police investigation. An alternative explanation would be that the first two men, who were black, got into a fight with a third man, who was white, and told the police they had been victims of "homophobic abuse" to avoid prosecution.

Fake Allegations at ICES, France, May 2019

When a group of 12 young people, mostly students at Institut Catholique d’Études Supérieures de la Vendée, protested against an LGBT demonstration being held outside their campus, the demonstrators and their own university authorities reported them to the police. A mass outcry by LGBT activists called for severe penalties including expulsion from the university. Two homosexuals who had been there claimed that they had been the victim of severe violent attack, and the incident had blown up into a major national news story. TV and newspapers reported that the display stall had been “ransacked,” even though three female LGBT activists present at the scene had acknowledged on television that the damage had been minimal and no one had been harmed. Videos were taken of the scene by people with mobile phones. In July 2020, all the protestors were acquitted by a court of appeal at Poitiers, which concluded that there was no evidence of any violent action on their part. Nobody had been attacked or injured.

Accident at Gay Pride Parade labelled Terrorism, June 2021

A “Gay Pride” parade in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was interrupted when a white pickup truck ran into a crowd, killing one person and injuring another. The city’s mayor, Dean Trantalis, immediately declared the incident was “a terrorist attack against the LGBT community.” However it turned out that the truck was driven by the leader of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus. who was part of the parade. Video of the driver’s arrest moments after the incident clearly showed he was wearing a “Gay Men’s Chorus” shirt.

See also

• Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• Scott Johnson 1959 -1988