Posters of suspected lesbians have been printed and circulated as part of plans by homophobic residents to out the ladies.
The women, all of whom the neighbours suspected were lesbians, got stoned and pelted with human faeces by an angry mob who claimed the alleged ritual ceremony was a guise for a lesbian birthday bash. The homophobic residents have vowed to hunt down and bay for the blood of all lesbians, locally called ‘supi’ in the area. Read More
Roisin Prendergast (20) and her girlfriend 17-year-old Ciara Murphy were attacked by two unidentified men on Cruises Street in Limerick. The verbal assault quickly turned into a vicious beating and kicking.
"We thought it was over. Then one guy came back, threw Ciara against a shop window and ripped up her hat in front of her," she said.
When the unprovoked attack was finally over, Ms Murphy lay unconscious on the street following a knock to her head, while Ms Prendergast had been beaten and was in shock beside her. The two women said they are overwhelmed with the support they have received on social media following the attack. Read More
Two men have been arrested near Saint Petersburg, Russia, over the murder of a gay man. The body of a 38-year-old man who had been stabbed 26 times was found on Monday night in a town in the Vsevolozhsk region of Russia.
According to Tetu, the two men told police following their arrest that they stabbed the victim because he had attempted to sexually proposition them. Read More
A shadowy group identifying itself as the “public ombudsman for children’s rights” turned up at a school in St. Petersburg in what it called a “raid” to demand the dismissal of a teacher supportive of LGBT rights, local media outlets reported.
The group said it showed the school director photos from Maksim Ivantsov’s wall on the Russian social network VKontakte as proof of the teacher’s “propaganda” of “LGBT values.” Ivantsov has spoken out publicly against anti-LGBT discrimination.
Ivantsov is only the latest in a growing list of teachers who have been targeted using the anti-LGBT propaganda law. Read More
Police in Tanzania have arrested a trans man and his female partner on suspicion of violating the Tanzanian law against same-sex intimacy.
News of the arrest, and the couple’s photos, were splashed across the local newspaper with the headline, “Beautiful girls arrested for homosexuality.” The arrests came after their neighbors told police that they suspected the two people were married and in a same-sex relationship. Read More
A man has been arrested in connection with the brutal attack on a Ghanaian events organizer on allegations he was gay. The suspected attacker was arrested by police after a video surfaced showing events promoter, Kinto Rothmans being assaulted and blood dripping from his head. Ghanaian celebrities took to social media to condemn the attack. Singer Efya immediately took to Twitter to express her disgust saying, ‘You can’t beat the gay out of someone… you can’t.’ Read More
Less than 2 months after two other men were thrown from buildings on accusations by ISIS of homosexuality, another man is thrown from a tower. The man survived the fall and, according to reports, was stoned to death by onlookers. ISIS released pictures and video of the murder. Read More
Police have arrested an Akron, OH, father in connection with the February 13 stabbing death of his child Bri Golec, a 22-year-old who local advocates say was as a trans woman. Bri is the sixth transgender woman in the US to be murdered in the last month. Read More
Penny Proud was fatally shot Tuesday in New Orleans. Penny is the fifth transgender woman of color in the United States to be killed within the past month, according to anti-violence and LGBT organizations mourning her death.Media then misgendered her and dwelled on prostitution activity near the crime scene, despite being unable to provide evidence linking it to the homicide. Read More
A rights group has accused Serbia’s defence ministry of discrimination over the forced retirement of a veteran officer whose transgender identity was deemed a threat to the reputation of the army.
The Balkan country, which aspires to one day join the European Union, is under pressure to promote greater tolerance for minorities within a strongly conservative society. Read More