Allies urged to support LGBTQ+ hate crime victims.
A new campaign by LGBT HERO is launching to tackle LGBTQ+ hate crime and help those who have experienced LGBTQ+ hate crime.
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Short film exposes anti-LGBT+ hate crime in Commonwealth.
The Human Dignity Trust’s new film, A Wake Up Call: Hate Crime Law in the Commonwealth, is funded by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
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Better Late Than Never: This European Country Has Finally Made Homophobic Verbal Abuse Illegal.
Swiss people just voted in favour of a new law protecting the LGBTQ+ community. Didier Bonny, an activist and politician, spoke to us about it… Last February, I had the honour to speak with the Swiss Co-President of the Green Party of Geneva, and of the Romand Federation of LGBT Associations, […]
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Indonesia. Trans woman burned alive in shocking murder.
Above image shows Indonesian police harassing and hosing down three trans women in Sumatra in 2018 Horrifying crime is the latest in a spate of anti-LGBT violence over recent years. Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian authorities urgently to investigate the murder of a trans woman, Mira, who was accused […]
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Sydney’s shame: cold case review reveals spate of LGBTQ hate crimes
A review of cold cases going back to the late 1980s has delivered some shocking findings Strike Force Parrabell, a joint initiative between New South Wales Police and academics from Flinders University, has concluded that at least 27 out of 88 suspicious deaths, some dating back to the late 80s, were […]
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FIND THEM: London thugs who forced their victim to apologise for being gay
Do you recognise these men? They’re being hunted by British Transport Police after a sick homophobic attack on a London underground train. The victim, a 19-year-old man, was travelling on a westbound Jubilee line train between West Ham and North Greenwich with his friends. They were wearing fancy dress for an […]
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Transphobic attack: “I lay in a ball to protect my body and then played dead.”
The latest victim of a transphobic attack gives Out News Global’s Andy West his harrowing account of the beating that left him in pain and shock. It happened on Saturday 4 November at just gone 1 in the morning. I’d been at a party and was wandering home towards Deptford High Street in South London when I saw […]
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Police bring in ‘angels’ to cope with hate crime in Manchester’s Gay Village
Hate crimes in Manchester’s ‘gay village’ are now so common, the Police say they can’t cope with the number of reports on busy nights. In August 2017 alone, 85 violent and sexual offences were recorded in the Gay Village. Considering only 10% of LGBT hate crimes are actually reported, the true […]
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LGBT organisations warn against scrapping Football Behaviour Act
Stonewall Scotland say Act repeal could “send very negative signal” to LGBT communities Members of the Scottish Parliament have been hearing evidence on why the Offensive behaviour at Regulated Football Matches Act should be repealed. The Act was brought forward in response to a number of controversial incidents associated mostly with […]
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Record numbers given tougher hate crime sentences
Crimes involving hostility on grounds of sexual orientation and transgender identity receive tougher sentencing Record numbers of tougher hate crime sentences are being passed by the courts after applications made by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), data published today reveals. In 2016/17, more than half of all cases involving hostility on […]
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