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Gay Men Attacked In A Bar in Bangalore

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Three gay men were attacked in Bangalore in the Ching Lung Bar, a popular bar with gay men in the city. The incident happened on March 6th at around 8:30 pm when one of the men asked for a lighter from another man in the bar. Instead, he was threatened by the man and asked to act “manly”.

“The man came up to us and said ‘Next time you ask for a lighter ask politely like a man, not like a women’,” told Abhiram, who had asked for the lighter. After 15 minutes, the man came back, this time threatening to beat them and asking them not to leave without telling him. “If you leave this place without telling us, we’ll follow you and beat you up,” the man allegedly said.

The three men decided not to get into a confrontation and did not respond back to the abuses. However, after sometime he returned back with his friends and started abusing them and physically assaulting them, all the time shouting at them to change their behavior, dressing style, hairstyle and to “act like a man”. Abhiram was hit on the head thrice by them. Sensing trouble, the bar waiters intervened and Abhiram asked them to escort him and his friends out safely.

The men have not launched a police FIR as they fear more harassment from the police if they do so. “We just want to let go of this. This story might sound childish to the cops,” said Abhiram. This is not the first time that gay men who have been attacked after recriminalisation of homosexuality in India have refused to file police complaints in such cases. Last month, a 23 year old gay man who was raped by policemen in Gujarat too refused to file a police complaint and pursue the case, fearing more harassment from the cops.

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5 Responses

  1. BlueDragon

    Congratulations, India. Way to build on a legacy of homophobia.

  2. Yory

    “Act like a man.” ??
    Who will decide how man acts? They?
    In which dictionary there is written “this is man act”?

    Such an idiots.
    This culprits are stupidest criminals and threat for a intelligent society.

    They should get some major punishment, their fake masculinity should be mock down, only then they’d understand.

  3. Prajwal

    These days i am very scared to land up in this place because this place is infested by danger..specially to girls,waiters literally hit the costumers,waiters over charge costumers when they are drunk,first floor is occupied by oldies and second floor by gays and roof top by teens where people are allowed to smoke marijuana,in this floor waiters take advantage of customers while they are drunk by picking a fight with them for no reason and overcharging them or by misbehaving with the girls,one fine Sunday evening i landed up with my friends in ching lung for a drink , we were sitting in first floor ordering for our drink, for our surprise we found waiters hitting a customer with a iron rod for questioning on his bill, this incident was getting video recorded by a north east guy who was sitting right behind me, waiters rushed up to the guy who was recording the incident in his phone, waiters snatched the phone from him belted him black and blue and trowed him out , my question is where is management here, this place is under the control of barbarian waiters and pulled over by a blind management which fail to deliver safety and satisfaction to its customers and these days even more worst this place has also lost its level of being hygienic cockroach found in chicken 65 and drunk customers can puke where ever they want to, my advice to all is not to visit such place like ching lung if you are looking for a real worth for your money and individual dignity.