What Gay Activist has suspected for months – based on the number of attacks I have documented – is now official: gay bashing is on the increase.
‘Scotland Yard statistics reveal a 9% rise in homophobic and transphobic offences to 1,372 in the year to April. Greater Manchester police recorded a 63% rise in homophobic crime. Acting Detective Superintendent Gerry Campbell, of the Metropolitan police, who headed a recent operation against hate crime that led to 292 arrests, said: “Homophobia cannot be considered a thing of the past, it’s on the increase.”‘
Crown Prosecution Service figures show that prosecutions for crimes involving homophobia rose 60% over the past two years to 995 cases.
Hardly surprising, is it, when Churches and organisations who should know better seem to be standing on the sidelines encouraging it.
