Gay arrest
Man arrested in Qatar Grindr 'sting' sentenced
Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa, said in a statement that authorities in the land must overturn Mr Guerrero Aviña’s "outrageous conviction and boost his travel ban".
"There are serious fears that [he] was targeted for his sexual orientation and was coerced into providing the authorities with information that they could utilize to pursue a wider crackdown on LGBTI individuals in Qatar”.
HIV charities had also launched interventions in the case after claims Mr Guerrero Aviña, who is HIV positive, had not had regular access to his medication, which keeps the virus under control.
Mr Guerrero Aviña's family hold told the BBC that his usual treatment, prescribed by British doctors, ran out in mid-April.
The UK's National Aids Trust told the BBC he urgently needs to restore to the UK for the medication as it is not available in Qatar, and he may have built up resistance to it, which would make it less effective.
Deborah Gold, CEO of National Aids Trust, said: "We are hugely concerned that he will not be competent to access the ongoing me
Gotham Gazette
There has been a sharp boost recently in the number of lgbtq+ men arrested for prostitution at mature person video stores in Manhattan.
Anger is building against the police department in the wake of an increase in arrests of gay men for prostitution at Manhattan adult video stores. Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn linked in the outcry. She said she is working with the mayor's office and commanders of the police department to set up a meeting that will include lgbtq+ community groups "to get to the bottom of this."
The arrests have been documented by Duncan Osborne of the Gay City News over the last several months. Police are allegedly using handsome young undercover cops to cruise middle-aged gay men, offering to move home with them for consensual sex. As they quit the store together, the cop applications to pay the man for the sex, confusing the victims who can't imagine why the younger man would make such a proposal. Then, as they walk out of the store, the victim, despite never having agreed to any exchange of money, is surrounded by undercover cops, handcuffed and charged with prostitution.
Gay activists and civil libertarians see the arrests as part o
Indonesia: Police must release 75 people arrested in discriminatory raid on “gay party”
Responding to the arrest of 75 people in a raid on a gathering described by police as a “gay party” in the Indonesian town of Bogor, near the capital city of Jakarta, Amnesty International Indonesia’s Deputy Director Wirya Adiwena said:
“This discriminatory raid on a privately rented villa is a blatant violation of human rights and privacy that exemplifies the hostile environment for LGBTI people in Indonesia. This gathering violated no law and posed no threat.
“The Indonesian authorities must terminate these hate-based and humiliating raids. No one should be subjected to arrest, intimidation or common shaming because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
“The police must immediately release all those arrested. Indonesia’s government must also take urgent steps to ensure accountability for human rights violations committed by the police, and work toward creating an environment where LGBTI individuals and their allies can live free from fear and harassment.”
Background
Police in the city of Bogor confirmed on Monday blackout that they had conducted a raid on a gath
Arrest Record or Openly Gay: The impact of athletes’ personal lives on endorser effectiveness
Publication Title
Sport Marketing Quarterly
Abstract
Many companies use athlete endorsers to help promote brands and sell products, and athletes are paid considerably for allowing companies to marry the athlete's image and persona with their products and/or services. Thus, understanding what makes an effective endorser is an important question. Grounded in source credibility and match-up hypothesis theory, this analyze examined how knowledge of an athlete's prior arrest or knowledge about an athlete's sexuality would impact perceived source credibility characteristics of attractiveness, trustworthiness, and expertise, as well as perceptions of endorser-product fit and purchase intentions. Results indicated that being openly gay or having been previously arrested had no impact on source credibility characteristics when compared to heterosexual/non-arrested athletes. Results also revealed trustworthiness, attractiveness, and expertise positively affected product-endorser fit, and further underscore the importance of product-endorser fit on purchase intentions.