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
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Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and Kylen Carrol Schulte, 24, were found fatally shot near their Utah campsite on 18 August 2021. (YouTube/FOX 13 News Utah, Courtesy: Bridget Calvert) A newlywed couple were found dead near their campsite in Utah after telling friends they were “creeped” out by a “weirdo” man nearby. Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and
Alexus Braxton. (Facebook) Alexus ‘Kimmy Icon’ Braxton, a Black trans woman and “beloved daughter”, was found dead 4 February amid a surge of unrelenting violence that has left LGBT+ activists drained and alarmed. Braxton, 45, was killed in Miami, Florida, in an apartment complex in the northern Andover Lakes Estates neighbourhood. She was based in the
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
Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago. (CBS2) A transgender woman was shot dead on Christmas Day in what her friends believe was a hate crime incident, before she was misgendered by police in death. Friends and family of
A male couple have been found guilty of murdering and dismembering a lesbian in their flat filled with horror merchandise. Boyfriends Nathan Maynard-Ellis and David Leesley, 30 and 25, have been convicted of the 2019 killing of Julia Rawson in Dudley, West Midlands. The two men, who had already admitted perverting the course of justice
Peter Farquhar was found dead in his home in October 2015 (Thames Valley Police/Facebook) A gay retired teacher who was abused and murdered by a churchwarden was “vulnerable to exploitation” because of the church’s anti-gay policies, an independent investigation found. Peter Farquhar, 69, was subjected to physical and mental abuse by Benjamin Field, who strangled
Viktoria Basakovskaya was allegedly strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend in Siberia, Russia. (Screen capture via YouTube) A police officer in Novosibirsk, Russia has confessed to killing his missing ex-girlfriend, a 24-year-old trans woman, after leading the charge to find her. The body of Viktoria Basakovskaya was found in the southern village of Burmistrovo and showed
Luis Almendares was shot three times by two men on a motorbike. (Luisito Almendares/ Facebook) A journalist in Honduras has been murdered after publicly condemning violence against LGBT+ people in the Central American country. According to the Washington Blade, Luis Almendares was shot three times by two men on a motorbike in the city Comayagua
The couple have been accused of the murder of dancer Adrian Murphy. (Adrian Murphy/ Facebook) A “ruthless” couple have been accused of murdering a champion Irish dancer by poisoning him with “Devil’s Breath” after meeting him on Grindr. In June 2019, police issued an urgent safety warning to people using Grindr after 43-year-old Adrian Murphy
Maria Paola Gaglione (R) died in a motorcycle accident after her brother, enraged she was marrying a trans man Ciro Migloiore (L), tailed her. (Facebook) A trans man was seriously injured and his fiancé, a cisgender woman, tragically slain by her transphobic brother who wanted to “teach her” a lesson. Maria Paola Gaglione, 22, was
Vanessa Solórzano. (Twitter) Vanessa Solórzano, a 20-year-old trans sex worker, was stabbed to death by a taxi driver in northwest Argentina Tuesday morning (August 11) all because he didn’t want to pay. Close friends described Solórzano as a fiercely loyal person who dreamed of becoming a makeup artist. She had began sex work to help
A giant trans flag outside the Supreme Court as a community response to the landmark Supreme Court hearings that could legalise workplace discrimination, primarily against LGBTQ+ people. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Fears of a growing “epidemic” of violence against the trans community were seemingly cemented this week as the number of trans people in the
Michelle Davis, mother of Ukea Davis (Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty) Police in Washington DC have finally admitted that the killings of two Black trans teenagers almost 20 years ago were “clearly a hate crime”. Ukea Davis, 18, and Stephanie Thomas, 19, were found dead in a car in 2002. Both had been
He found his victims on Grindr. He drugged, raped and killed them. He disposed of their bodies all within walking distance of his east London, England, apartment. All were found in identical positions. Slumped against a wall. Their mobile phones missing. Three in a churchyard. One found in a communal area of the killer’s own
Merci Mack was just 22 years old when she was shot and left in a Dallas parking lot. (HRC) Merci Mack, a 22-year-old Black transgender woman, was tragically killed by a gunshot to the head on June 30 in Texas, making her at least the 18th trans person murdered in the US so far this
A Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC. (GettyYasin Ozturk) A leading LGBT+ rights organisation has said that the Black Lives Matter movement must do more for murdered Black trans women. Widespread protests against ongoing police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd have spread across America. But the Human Rights Campaign
Peter Elie. (Screen capture via YouTube) A 27-year-old has been arrested by Toronto, Canada, police in connection with the brutal murder of a beloved DJ, found dead in the laundry room of his apartment block. Peter Elie, 52, was found murdered early Thursday morning (May 14) after emergency services responded to a small fire in
A grieving mother in Nashville, Tennessee has demanded justice for her 17-year-old daughter, who was shot and killed last week. Ashanti ‘Ace’ Posey, 17, was driving with another person in the city on April 9 when she was fatally shot. Police investigating the incident have alleged that her death the shooting came shortly after the
Trans people, especially trans women, experience rocketing levels of violence and hate crime. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A trans woman with a “beautiful heart” was fatally stabbed in the neck in Harlem Park, New York, early Saturday morning during a spat over a wig she allegedly stole. In the light of the morning after, a crescent-shaped
Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17, who was tragically killed after her assailant discovered she was transgender (Facebook) Washington has just become the tenth US state to ban the ‘gay panic’ murder defence, passing the measure in honour of Nikki Kuhnhausen, a transgender teen who was killed last year. The controversial ‘gay panic defence’ justifies violence against LGBT+