Tag: hate crime
Landlords’ shock after violent homophobic attack at Norwich pub
The landlords of a Norwich pub vowed to not let homophobic thugs drive them out of their business after they were victims of a frightening attack.
Transgender Woman Killed While Pounding on Door for Help
Deshawnda Sanchez, 21, of Los Angeles was believed to be running from her attacker when someone shot and killed her.
New York High Court Allows Retrial on Hate Crime Charge in Killing of Transgender Woman Lateisha Green
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today renewed its call for justice in the case of a slain transgender woman after the New York State Court of Appeals overturned the hate crime conviction of the man accused of killing her but allowed the state to retry him on the disputed hate crime charge. DeLee was originally convicted of manslaughter in the first degree as a hate crime for the 2008 killing of Syracuse resident Lateisha “Teish” Green, a 22-year-old African American transgender woman.
14-Year-Old Muslim boy harassed when he came out as gay
I’ve had it hard. It has been yelled shit to me like “fucking Queer” and many other bad things. There are many Muslims who look down on me, says a 14-year-old boy from a Muslim background to NRK.
Young man battered in ‘violent’ homophobic Halloween attack
Two men, one from Thames Ditton, have been arrested in connection with the homophobic attack in Surbiton in the early hours of Saturday (November 1)
Spain : Gay teens pelted with stones outside school
Gay groups have called for tougher anti-homophobia laws in the wake of an incident which saw a gay teenage girl left unconscious after she was pelted with stones after leaving school in Spain’s Murcia region on Monday.