Tennessee lesbian
assaulted at local nightclub

Lesbian Miranda Greer says a man beat her with a beer bottle at a Jackson, Tenn., nightclub after questioning her about her sexuality, according to local newspaper The Jackson Sun. The attack left her partially blind in one eye and may have caused minor brain damage, she has told police.

Although the attack happened early July 15 at the popular nightclub Tequila Joe's, 24-year-old Greer did not report the incident until last week.

According to the Sun, Greer says the man approached her after he saw her dancing with a male friend. The man assumed from her appearance that she was a gay man. Using a homophobic slur, he told her to leave the nightclub. Greer told him she was a woman and a lesbian, and then, she says, the man punched her in the face.

The man then used the bottom of a beer bottle to repeatedly jab her in the left eye before breaking the bottle over the back of her head, she told the police.

Greer says she was not concerned about the attack until she lost sight in her left eye for a few days. She now says she has a blind spot on the left side of that eye, the Sun reports. Greer is scheduled to undergo magnetic resonance imaging to assess possible brain damage.

The man who Greer says assaulted her has not been located. (The Advocate)