Police at the University of North Dakota are investigating a possible hate crime in which a group of drunken Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers sexually assaulted a gay man.
Haakon Gisvold claims he went to a party held at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house last weekend. At some point during the evening, four brothers approached him and demanded he leave because his sexual orientation was apparently different than theirs.
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According to Gisvold, the men followed him outside. They pushed him to the ground then proceeded to choke him. His clothes were stripped from his body, and his belt was used to beat him as they shouted antigay slurs.
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If the allegations are true, police say the case could be treated as a hate crime.
“If you label something a hate crime it has to be labeled based on the fact that the suspect knew that that person was something. Whether it was based on race or religion or whatnot,” UND sergeant Danny Weigel told the Grand Forks Herald. “We were informed by the victim that people with the assault had made comments regarding sexual orientation.”
But some students say they are skeptical of Gisvold’s story.
“I’m just surprised,” freshman Cade Hoben told the Herald. “And I feel like there’s more to the story.”
“I guess, I really can’t believe that, but if it’s true, that’s crazy,” added freshman Maria Diepolder. “I think [Lambda Chi Alpha has] a pretty good reputation here in North Dakota.”
Lambda Chi Alpha has not released a statement over the matter. UND’s president, Robert Kelley, released a statement this week saying he was “disturbed” by the news and assuring that “any student or student organization found to have violated the UND Code of Student Life will be subject to disciplinary action.”
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h/t: Grand Forks Herald
Rachel Leonardo
It’s 2015 and gay men are still attacked by sadistic closet gay men
Ladbrook
At my alma mater, LXA was known as the gay-friendly frat… and they did have a couple of openly gay brothers, and this was back in the 80’s. Fast forward 10 yrs and I took a job at a different university and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the LXA chapter was also very gay friendly, and their chapter president was gay!
With that in mind, if this happened, it’s a rogue chapter or was committed by a rogue group within the chapter. Time will tell.
Brian
Gay-friendly frats are awful. They are populated by girly straight guys with thin legs who spend hours playing video games. I would much rather live in a manly frat populated by jocks with a certain amount of hostility towards male homosexuality. The tension would be amazing.
I would get up every morning hoping that one of them would by lying beside me, half-drunk, and stroking my nibbles.
Curty
Yeah but one thing wasn’t mention there is no hate crime for glbt people in this state! Smh
John Malin
If true, throw the book at the asswipes, then lock them up with sex hungry convicts named Refridge and Freezerman, etc. Bet they’re wearing minis and lipstick in no time!
Captain Obvious
@Brian: I think your girly ass may have been hitting the bath salts.
Toni Kahwage
sadly nothing new ;-;
Brian JC Kneeland
Gee – they didn’t pick a straight guy too – so it was focussed on gays – that alone makes it a hate crime!
money718
Oh yea….school is back in session.
ingyaom
“Straight” frat-boys pulling down a gay man’s pants and spanking his bottom – sounds totally hetero to me.
money718
The more I read it, sounds like a little hazing or a lie? IDK.
Billy Budd
If they did it, they must pay.
Trevor S. Robertson
Sounds like a love crime to me. 10 bucks says he was hot.
Curty
Brian you sound nuts… or just a thirsty queen with a straight guy fetish…
Curty
No hate crime law for glbt in this state. Thought I should point that out. We still have some ways to go in this country.
Kevin J Desmond
Lets see .. they strip him naked, last time I checked that’s called RAPE !!!
gaym50ish
@Curty: Even so, if a state does not or cannot charge a crime as a hate crime, the feds can prosecute it as a hate crime. That was one of the provisions of the federal Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Alistair Wiseman
@gaym50ish:
Yes, because the gays have to be treated specially.
notwuk
@Brian: Erm… So what?
JessPH
I’ll take this with a grain of salt. This is not the first time a gay person pretended to be a hate crime victim.
Remember this business owner from Utah who claimed that attackers carved “Fag” on his arm and set his restaurant on fire? Turns out that they were all lies:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/30/authorities-gay-slur-carved-into-utah-mans-arm-was/
Merv
If true, there would be lots of witnesses, at least to the first part of the incident. Get back to us when the witnesses come forward.
kdougiec
As a member Of Lambda Chi Alpha I’m deeply saddened to hear this. I hope that this doesn’t give a bad name to the organization or greek life as a whole but rather a bad name to those responsible for their actions. The values we uphold in Lambda Chi Alpha do not permit such actions as acceptable.
youarekiddingme
@Kevin J Desmond:
Unfortunately according to section 12.1 of the North Dakota Criminal Code this qualifies as Sexual Assault at best…not rape.
SeeingAll
Sounds hot. But I’d have to see what the participants looked like before totally concluding that.
SeeingAll
@JessPH: Queerty sure hid from that one when the truth came out.
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: Another moronic remark by the self righteous Alistair!
@Brian: You know what’s awful? Gay people putting up with abuse just so they can fit in. Do you really want to fit in that badly?
@JessPH: I’m not doubting your claim, but you would be better served if you came up with a better source than Moonie Times. Try harder please.
youarekiddingme
@Giancarlo85: Why are there so many self-haters? Do they really loathe themselves that much? I know Allistair hates himself immensely…saying things like “gays have to be treated specially (referring to victims of hate crimes).”
People like Allistair were not around during the AIDS epidemic, nor the Anita Bryant attacks, nor the Reagan Administration. If he was, he was sleeping. If these politicians (like his buddy Cruz) were ever elected, they would do their best to reverse every civil right ever gained by the LGBT Community. Cruz’ dad has said he wants nothing less than all gay people to be rounded up, put in “camps” and “eliminated”. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and you can bet your ass he secretly feels the same. Allistair even refers to the LGBT Community as a “supposed community.”
So sad. Watch for him to jump back in, talk shit, then jump back out, like the coward he is.
Alistair Wiseman
@youarekiddingme:
I guess because someone does not think like you they are “self-haters” that loathe and hate themselves. I don’t think that way about you even though I have a different opinion.
I was around during the AIDS epidemic and Anita Bryant and the Reagan Administration. I’m not exactly sure what those issues have to do specifically with hate crimes laws.
I don’t believe in hate crimes laws for anyone. I want to be treated like everybody else. I want to be treated E-Q-U-A-L-L-Y. I don’t want to have special laws for what someone may have been thinking during the course of a crime. Judge people by their actions.
Example: If my straight brother and I were murdered. As they killed him said, “Die motherfucker”, yet as they killed me said, “Die faggot” and the sentencing would be different because society thinks I’m a special little snowflake? I would think any fair-minded person would find that DISGUSTING.
This may come as a surprise to you, and it has nothing to do with being a “self-hating” gay, but your life is no more valuable than that of a straight person.
As for the rounding up gays and eliminating them? I heard this repeatedly when George W. Bush ran for president in 2000. Didn’t happen.
As I supposedly referred to the LGBT community as a “supposed community”, I don’t recall that. I would have to see the context. I believe there is a gay community.
As for being a coward. Just more typical name calling. You and your arguments don’t intimidate me in the least. Just busy.
youarekiddingme
@Alistair Wiseman:
Why are you a self-hater? Your statement tonight solidifies it. Read it. Gaym50ish said: “Even so, if a state does not or cannot charge a crime as a hate crime, the feds can prosecute it as a hate crime. That was one of the provisions of the federal Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Prevention Act.”
Your response: “Yes, because the gays have to be treated specially.” YOU ARE A SELF-HATING PERSON WHO THINKS HE IS ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE! Your wording “the gays”. What you’re not one? You are a sick fuck if you’re not gay (I’m assuming you are), so you must be self-hating/loathing!!
You have demonstrated time and time again how you don’t stand behind the “so called LGBT Community” and how they’re a bunch of whiners. Deny what you want. You’re a fuckin liar Allistair!
You kiss Reagan’s ass and defend him yet when faced with evidence that he was gay-hating republican, the only defense you could muster were magazine articles and a rediculus op-ed piece. That’s Opininion-Editorial. Like my OPINION that you’re a self-loathing, republican who thinks we can just sit on our ass as politicians plan to take back our basic civil rights. You are a MORON for those thoughts…my OPINION.
It’s funny you say you want to be treated E-Q-U-A-L-L-Y. I want to shit gold bars but that ain’t happing any time soon either! You want to be treated equally yet you refuse to believe that anyone (politicans–Cruz) will do us any harm. Live in your dream world.
We wouldn’t need Hate Crime laws if people didn’t do things like attack people because they were “ni@@ers” or “fags” or “dykes” or “jews” or any other hated minority class. You are such an ass. You don’t even realize the reason hate crime legislation was passed. It had NOTHING to do with the LGBT Community initially. Some states’ hate crime legislation doesn’t even protect LGBT people. Grow up. Do some research.
As far as your stupid murder example: 1 being a hate crime and the other not…you are such an ass. Your argument is not even worth debating.
You are a coward because when faced with facts instead of being a man and admitting that you’re wrong, you run away. YOU ARE A COWARD!!
youarekiddingme
@Alistair Wiseman:
Now, go back to your room and take your meds so they can take you back to the group home–where you belong!
tusgold
This is not an isolated incident of One frat ONE location. We have known of the sysstemic breakdown of the frat system as a whole its archaic relic to be removed
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: You are a pathetic little coward who hides when he gets outwitted and defeated in an argument. You are a self hater simply because of your contradictory and nasty political beliefs.
You were not around in the 1980s. You sound more like a teenager. You don’t want to be treated equally. If you wanted to be treated equally, you wouldn’t be kissing up to conservatives. You wouldn’t even fucking be a conservative. Conservatives don’t believe in equality.
You don’t even have an argument nor any ground to stand on. You are a ridiculously weak man with no real backbone and all you do is kiss ass (and not in a good way).
Giancarlo85
Alistair: “I love Ronald Reagan because he had a libertarian streak… he let a gay interior designer into the White House” blah blah blah blah
This guy makes up so much bullshit. Bullshit is practically coming out of his eyeballs.
Alistair Wiseman
@youarekiddingme:
Wow! According to your post, I must have some serious problems. In your deep and convincing post I am a:
1. “self-hater”
2. “sick fuck”
3. “self-hating/loathing”
4. “fuckin liar”
5. “kiss Reagan’s ass”
6. “self-loathing”
7. “MORON”
8. “Live in your dream world”
9. “ass”
10. “Grow up”
11. “coward”
12. “YOU ARE A COWARD!!”
Alistair Wiseman
@youarekiddingme:
Now lets see what I attributed to you:
1. (not applicable)
In reference to you, the only thing I said, “I guess because someone does not think like you they are “self-haters” that loathe and hate themselves. I don’t think that way about you even though I have a different opinion.”
Alistair Wiseman
@youarekiddingme:
I see you have your Leftist debating skills down. However, I think there should be a few more exclamation points, more curse words (you can never have enough of those!) and more name-calling. With practice I believe you can really be an expert, but make no mistake about it – you are on your way!!!
In the future: More substance, less emotion.
youarekiddingme
@Alistair Wiseman:
Allistair,
I see, as usual, you can’t respond to a single thing that I last posted to you about Gay50ish remarks on the Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Act (and how you responded), Reagan, and his lack of response that cost thousands of gay men and women their lives and his refusal to let Coop (his Surgeon General) speak when he first wanted to put out public service announcements (on AIDS)–sure, when they did act, all they did was put out that drug AZT that literally did nothing to stop the dying of all the people in the midst of the epidemic. You want to be treated equally yet you support republicans like Ted Cruz who wants nothing less than to repeal our civil rights and at worst he’d love to see us treated like his daddy has stated (rounded up and eliminated).
You can’t admit you’re wrong (The Reagan thing from 3 posts back). So unlike me (I did admit to you when I made a mistake), you are too much of a coward to admit to me that you are wrong.
So post all the BS you want. You will find NO Allies on this site. You fear response from Giancarlo85. You have been repeatedly debated down by him and now you wish to try to do the same with me. You are running out of people to debate with.
Good Luck with your life with your right-wing republican friends. Strive for your equality without Hate Crimes Legislation and Civil Rights Protections and “Dream the Dream”…Meanwhile the rest of us will continue to fight the fight that has been going on for decades to earn the civil rights that we deserve.
Alistair Wiseman
@youarekiddingme:
As usual, so many of things you have posted are just inaccurate and false.
Need an example? When have I ever said that I support Ted Cruz? I have never said that. (But don’t let little details and the truth get in the way.)
Apparently, from my last post, you did not understand why I did not address every detail of your post.
I’ll supply an example again:
1. “self-hater”
2. “sick fuck”
3. “self-hating/loathing”
4. “fuckin liar”
5. “kiss Reagan’s ass”
6. “self-loathing”
7. “MORON”
8. “Live in your dream world”
9. “ass”
10. “Grow up”
11. “coward”
12. “YOU ARE A COWARD!!”
Why would anyone want to take time out of their schedule to address someone who addresses issues in such a unsophisticated, juvenile and puerile manner?
Good luck to you.
youarekiddingme
@Alistair Wiseman:
Once again you prove all my points.
You can’t keep your LIES STRAIGHT. Hard living in your fantasy world! Look around Wisea@@! You have NO support here.
You and Ted go to Fire Island and discuss Israel while he plans the demise of all LGBT Civil RIGHTS.
You have made enemies of everyone.
Good Life Allistair! LOSER. (Add that to the list..it fits).
Aaron
Alistair Wiseman is a joke. lol
alphacentauri
This turned out to be fake which should surprise nobody:
http://www.queerty.com/sadistic-antigay-frat-attack-turns-out-to-be-a-hoax-20151015#comment-979690
SeeingAll
@John Malin: doofus
JessPH
Check my comment Sep 3, 2015 at 10:36 am
I was right to be skeptical.