A 25-year-old homosexual man who said he was left crippled from a brutal attack by his lover and four other men has forgiven his attackers and has resumed the relationship with his boyfriend. Chat! from the compound of a rehabilitation centre Tuesday. “I remember seeing my lover with a machete and one of the others with acid and other things.”CHAT! newspaper for the full story…

The well-known Kingston gay man, who goes by the name Emily, told Chat! that the assault, carried out last October, was the third act of violence meted out to him by jealous gay lovers since 2007.

Emily, who is now confined to a wheelchair, said he suffered spinal injuries in the October 2009 attack.

He said he was at his Stony Hill home on October 12 when his lover, along with four of his friends, armed with weapons, forced their way into his apartment.

“I don’t know what they came to do. I don’t know if they wanted to kill me, but I saw them with the weapons,” he told

Emily said he remembered being pushed from his second floor balcony and falling to the ground, then waking up in the Kingston Public Hospital.

“I held onto the rail trying to escape, but because it was so many of them I fell from the second floor to the ground. I was unconscious, I knew nothing,” he said.

 It wasn’t until January, after being unable to move his body for over two months and developing severe bed sores, that Emily was discharged from the hospital. Since then, he has been forced to use a catheter.

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