Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Double Triple dose of homophobia
Bombing disrupts Outgames event
A Seattle-area athlete needed medical treatment Tuesday after small bombs were thrown onto the track at the start of a relay run at the World Outgames. This attack is the second to take place against on attendees since the global LGBT multi-sport event opened last weekend. Three men have been detained as a result of the incidents and police said they are looking for a fourth suspect.
It was not known at press time whether the attacks were related or what the motives were, but police were treating the weekend incident, in which two Danish men reportedly punched and kicked three men from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway in a gay-bar district in Copenhagen as they returned from the opening ceremony on Town Hall Square.
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Less than an hour after the first bomb, another explosion rocked the stadium and a man was seen fleeing a nearby church building, believed to be the site where the bombs were thrown from. Police said they apprehended a 31-year-old Danish man and were looking for a second suspect.
I’ll bet the Washington Mystics’ managing partner Sheila Johnson will blame KissCams for this incident. 
But here’s the really disturbing part of the article:
A report issued by World Outgames organizers just before the start of this year’s games remarked that in terms of gay acceptance, Danish corporations were reluctant to be connected to the event.
This incident and the rise of anti-abortion sentiment in the Netherlands seem to be pointing to a disturbing pattern in European politics — the return of Christofascism.
