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Gay Saskatchewan Man Viciously Beaten By Man Who Thought He Was Flirting

"I walk into the bathroom and come out looking like this."

A gay Saskatoon man who was brutally beaten in a bar bathroom Saturday morning says his attacker believed he was trying to flirt with him.

Eugene Grosh, who suffered a concussion and severe bruising and cuts to his head and face in the incident, said he was out dancing with a group of female friends at a bar late Friday night and into Saturday morning. When he used the bathroom, Grosh told the Saskatoon StarPhoenix he said "hi" to "a large unfamiliar man with a shaved head."

The man reportedly became enraged and yelled "Are you hitting on me?" before punching Grosh several times in the face and then fleeing the bar.

"It was a minor setback,” Grosh told the paper, adding that it's not the first time he's been assaulted for apparently being gay in Saskatoon. "I walk into the bathroom and come out looking like this."

"Saskatoon is a welcoming place. I’m proud to live here, but the hate still exists," he said.

Grosh didn't seek immediate medical attention but was taken to the hospital by his husband later that night.

h/t Pink News

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