Tag: homophobic
Honduras: 215 LGBT people murdered in 7 years
A new report from Index on Censorship exposes the torture, imprisonment and assassination of LGBT people and activists in Honduras.
Moroccans divided over video of homophobic attack
A video showing two gay men being beaten up has provoked two very different social media campaigns in Morocco. One in support of the victims of the attack, and another in support of the alleged attackers.
Cristiano Ronaldo get homophobic slurs while young out referee experiencing the same
As Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo battles his own spate of homophobic attacks, Spain’s first openly gay referee, Jesús Tomillero, has opened up about his experiences working in a machismo sport.
TLDEF Responds to Guilty Plea in Killing of Islan Nettles
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) responded to news from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. that 25-year-old James Dixon has pleaded guilty to First Degree Manslaughter in the August 2013 killing of Islan Nettles, a 21-year-old African American transgender woman from Harlem. Dixon faces 12 years in prison after accepting the plea deal.
Northwestern University students charged with hate crime, vandalism to chapel
A Cook County judge on Saturday lashed out at two Northwestern University freshmen accused of spray-painting racist and homophobic messages along with the name of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump inside a nondenominational chapel on the university’s campus.
Gay Wyoming Young Man Takes His Life After Relentless Bullying
A gay Native American man, Trevor O’Brien, has been found dead in Wyoming, in an apparent suicide after he reportedly endured years of bullying.