They were saying things like, ‘We got a new president you f–king faggots.’ “I mean, I kind of got into it, but I didn’t want to provoke them.” “People started launching homophobic slurs at me from afar,” he said. As the election progressed, he said attitudes in the bar became more and more heated - on both sides of the campaign. Little information was provided about the circumstances leading up to the bar fight, although earlier reporting quoted Ball as saying the images made his injuries seem worse than they actually were:Ĭalgarian Chris Ball was left with five staples in his head from the hospital - but he said the bloody picture makes it look worse than it really was.īall spent the evening in a Santa Monica, Calif.
#Donald trump holds up gay flag free#
Please take the time to reflect on what is going on in the world, and the things you can do to keep the world free of hate – hate that is becoming all too common now of days. I hope this isn’t a sign of where we’re going as people. We’re all equal, and all deserve the respect to live our lives how we choose. This isn’t where the world needs to be heading, this isn’t what we should be seeing in the world. This hatred, bigotry, and senseless violence all comes from the same part of America that voted in a demagogue who spits hatred as his rhetoric. This is real, and the mentalities and mindsets behind it are very real as well.
I try hard to understand different points of views, perspectives, and avenues when it comes to politics, but when the realities of the time we live in are so stark it really breaks my heart. My good friend, Chris Ball, was bottled in the face by a celebratory Trump supporter - because he is gay. MacPherson shared one of the images and wrote: Friends took him to the hospital.Īccording to that article, the incident took place on 8 November 2016, the night of the election. The last thing he remembers before awaking bloody on the pavement was having a beer bottle smashed over his head. When Ball left the bar alone later in the night, Trump supporters followed him to an alley way and assaulted him, Ball said. ‘We got a new president you fucking faggots,” they said, Ball told Metro Calgary. Trump supporters shouted slurs at a gay man from Canada who was in a Santa Monica, CA bar Tuesday night watching Trump win the Presidential election, and upon leaving the bar, the man says, these supporters attacked him.Ĭalgary filmmaker Chris Ball said that he was watching the election results when supporters of the Republican candidate began to lob epithets. The web site USUncut reported on the claim and shared moderately graphic Facebook screenshots documenting the aftermath of the purported attack: According to one such story, gay Canadian film producer Chris Ball was badly beaten outside a bar in Santa Monica, California, by several Donald Trump supporters who had been emboldened by the vote’s outcome. general election wound down, stories of a more dangerous United States began popping up on social media.