John Walter Lay (L) was fatally shot at West Dog Park in Tampa (R) last week. (Facebook/Yelp) Last week, a 52-year-old gay man was fatally shot in a Tampa dog park in what his friends are describing as a hate crime. When he was shot, the victim had reportedly just had a run-in with another
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Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime will mark 25 years since Matthew Shepard’s murder. (Investigation Discovery) A moving new documentary will explore the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard, 25 years after his death in what remains one of the most horrendous homophobic hate crimes in modern history. Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was just
The incident happened in the Cropredy area at around 2am on August 14 outside of The Brasenose Arms. (Google Maps) Police are appealing after a man was left with a black eye and a bloodied nose in an alleged homophobic attack. The victim, who is thought to be in his 30s, was stood with his
A gay couple say they were “violently attacked” while walking down the street in Radcliffe, Bury, on Tuesday. Ryan Winnard, 21, was walking with his boyfriend Max Green, 18, on Coronation Road when a group of men in balaclavas stole their belongings and assaulted them. Uploading bloody photos to Facebook, Winnard said the group attacked
A police officer next to a banner reading ‘All cops are bastards period!’ at a Black Trans Lives Matter march in London, 2020. (Dave Rushen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) AL, who is trans, non-binary and genderqueer, has been assaulted twice on public transport in the last 18 months – but they didn’t report either incident
A gay man has said he was afraid to leave his house after he was hit in the face with a hammer in a suspected homophobic hate crime. Lóránt-Árpád Tompos was attacked between 2am and 2.30am on Saturday 18 August in the seaside town of Torquay, Devon. Tompos decided to speak out about his experience
Protesters outside Parliament during the End Queer and Trans Hate Campaign in Cape Town, South Africa (Brenton Geach/Gallo/Getty) South Africa’s LGBT+ community are demanding justice for a lesbian whose alleged murderer gloated about removing a “curse” from her family. Sisanda Gumede, 28, was stabbed in the Umbumbulu area, south of Durban, on Sunday evening (26
Two men assaulted shoppers after saying ‘anti-gay’ remarks. (New York Police Department CrimeStoppers) Two men were slashed with a glass bottle and stabbed with a screwdriver in an apparent homophobic hate crime. The New York City Police Department has launched an appeal after the victims, aged 36 and 28, were attacked by two individuals who
Elizabeth Rondón. (Twitter) A trans woman was reportedly beaten and brutally dismembered by her friends after going for drinks in an attack that has fuelled fear in Miranda, Venezuela. Elizabeth Rondón, a 33-year-old vegetable seller, was slain Monday morning (13 June) after at least three people beat her, according to activists and witnesses. Loved ones
Transgender people and supporters march through central London during the second Trans Pride protest march for equality on 12 September 2020. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) A retired Old Bailey judge has questioned why anti-trans groups such as the LGB Alliance weren’t included in a consultation on hate crime laws. Charles Wilde,
Gay man Sphamandla Khoza was found brutally murdered a short distance from his home (Screenshot/eNCA) A community in South Africa is demanding justice for the brutal murder of a gay man who was stabbed to death and dumped in a ditch near a school. Sphamandla Khoza, 34, was stabbed, beaten and had his throat slit
A gay man who was left scarred for life after a brutal homophobic hate crime has called for “tougher penalties” for attackers. Aspiring drag artist Ryan Turner, 24, was knocked unconscious by Brandon Forrester, 19, during the brutal assault on 13 July, 2019, in Preston, Lancashire. Before the attack, Forrester and others in the group
Scott Price was arrested at his home in Sydney on Tuesday, May 12, charged with the murder of Scott Johnson in 1988. (NSW Police Force/ Twitter) A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering Scott Johnson, a gay US student found naked at the bottom of a cliffside in Australia, in the latest speed bump
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation represent 16.8 percent of all hate crime reports in 2019. (Adam Berry/Getty) Reports of anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are on the rise, a new report from the FBI has warned. The FBI report published on Monday (November 16) compiled submissions from 15,588 law enforcement agencies across the US, showing that
The attacks have caused significant property damage, as well as psychological stress (Envato Elements) A gay primary school teacher says he and his husband have been left “emotionally drained” by a series of sustained attacks on their home with a BB gun. Antonio Silvestri, 49, and his partner David Bennett, 47, have been targeted by
A father in a southern England town assailed his own 15-year-old son – humiliating him and whipping him with a television cable – all because he joined Grindr. Courts in Plymouth heard how the father launched into a brutal display of dominance against his own child as he lashing he son 20 times while calling
A woman was convicted for hurling transphobic abuse on Southend seafront (John Keeble/Getty) A 23-year-old woman has admitted in court to spewing “disgusting” transphobic abuse at another woman as she walked along an English seafront. Annabel Forbes was accused of hurling anti-trans insults at a woman on the Eastern Esplanade in Southend, Essex, at around
Authorities in Northern Ireland arrested a 26-year-old man in connection to a suspected homophobic attack which saw two men brutally battered with a tyre iron in their home. The Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to gcn, said that on Tuesday morning (August 4) two individuals broke into the property in Lurgan, in County Amragh,
Webster resident Darrin Pesall posted the anti-gay rant on Facebook live. (Keloland) A homophobe in South Dakota who went on a profanity-heavy anti-gay rant while burning an LGBT+ Pride flag did not commit a hate crime. Troy Kriech, a resident of the South Dakota small town Webster, decided to put up an LGBT+ Pride flag
An armed Scotland Police officer. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Despite rocketing rates of violence against LGBT+ people in Scotland, absolutely no Police Scotland officers have been sent to a training course to better tackle the upsurge in around four years. According to the BBC, the country’s top police officer in 2016 said that tackling hate crime