Category: Hate Crime
Gay Iraqis Tortured, Killed Using Superglue to Close Anus
A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using ‘Iranian gum.’… Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, ‘Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.’
6 gay men shot in Iraq after clerics urged crackdown on gays
Two gay men were killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, a local official said on Saturday, and police said they had found the bodies of four more after clerics urged a crackdown on a perceived spread of homosexuality.
Anti-gay violence and discrimination throughout EU
Discrimination, bullying at school, and sometimes deadly violence against gays are “widespread throughout the EU,” the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights complained in a new report Tuesday.
Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing
According to a former employee of Lionhead Studios, being openly gay at a Microsoft-owned development studio can be just as bad as having an openly gay Xbox Live gamertag.
Lesbians raped to ‘cure’ them
South African lesbians are suffering rapes by men trying to “cure” their homosexuality, in what is becoming one of the most common hate crimes against gay women here, a new study said Friday.