Gay busted
Gotham Gazette
There has been a sharp raise recently in the number of lgbtq+ men arrested for prostitution at individual 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 united 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 male lover 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 abandon the store together, the cop proposals 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, handc
A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a okay amounting to about $2,, and a deportation request by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to his family and Mexican officials.
In a statement shared with media outlets by his family, dual British-Mexican national Manuel Guerrero Aviña said he was "deeply let down with yesterday's unfair finding, issued in spite of the violations of due process during my detention and trial, which included torture and mistreatment to pressure me into exposing the names of other gay partners and forcing me to use my fingerprint to sign multiple documents in Arabic without a translator."
"The Qatari authorities have convicted me because I am gay, and this is a breach of my human rights," Guerrero Aviña said, adding that he was delighted he could leave Qatar, but condemned what he called the "unfair trial I have been subjected to and the torture and ill treatment I endured during
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I never thought I'd get dwelling, gay man arrested in Qatar says
LGBT and identity correspondent, BBC News
A British-Mexican gentleman convicted of drug offences in Qatar after being detained there for six months has told BBC News he “never idea I’d return home".
In his first interview since leaving the territory, Manuel Guerrero Aviña, who says he was targeted because he is gay, warned LGBT people to “be careful when visiting Qatar”, saying: “What happened to me could happen to anyone.”
He was arrested in February after arranging to meet a guy - who he later create out was an undercover police officer - using gay dating website app Grindr.
Human-rights groups have raised concerns over Manuel's detention and called his trial “grossly unfair” - but Qatari officials assert he was arrested because of drug offences.
The year-old former British Airways worker now wants to focus on returning to operate and spending time with his family.
Manuel made headlines around the world following his arrest and his family started a campaign for him to be freed.