“A lot of people look up to you, Israel. You and your words have power, privilege and meaning. Young kids look up to you as an award-winning sportsman. What you say stays in the hearts and minds of young Australians and Pasefika children.”
An LGBTQ protest against police involvement in the Phoenix Pride Parade was short-lived on Sunday as a phalanx of police officers used bikes to force the crowd from the streets onto the sidewalk.
Dozens have fled and some have been granted asylum abroad, amid reports of kidnap and torture by Chechen security forces targeting gay or allegedly gay people. Chechen officials deny the reported abuses.
Investigators are “retracing McArthur’s life as far back as we can go,” Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga said, and maintains that police continue to look at outstanding missing persons cases and unsolved murders.
Faced with police shakedowns and abuse, rejection from religious conservatives and rampant discrimination, Kenyan LGBT rights activists are challenging provisions of this former British colony’s Victorian-era penal code that implicitly outlaw gay sex.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) of Mexico condemned Friday the murder of LGBT activist Maria Guadalupe Hernandez Flores and asked justice authorities in the central state of Guanajuato to investigate whether the motive of the crime was related to her work as a defender of LGBT rights.
