Three homophobic attacks in 10 days have left Argentina’s LGBTQ community in shock. Assailants broke a young man’s jaw after he left a night club, while two homes were vandalized just days later.

There were over 100 such attacks in the first seven months of 2025, a 70% increase compared with the same period of 2024, according to a report by the LGBT Argentina Federation. In January, President Javier Milei linked homosexuality and the fight for gender equality with pedophilia in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

On August 16, 24-year-old model Juan Sabín was leaving Rheo, a gay club in Palermo, when two men approached and started to mock his friend, who was crying because he had just learned that his grandmother had passed away. When Sabín tried to intervene, they attacked him.

“They threw me on the ground and one said to the other, ‘Leave him to me, I’ve always wanted to punch one of these,’” Sabín said in an Instagram story. The men fractured his jaw in two places.

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