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Brianna Ghey: Two 16-year-olds found guilty of murdering teenager

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Two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. The teen, who was transgender, was stabbed 28 times in Culcheth Linear Park, Warrington on 11 February. Girl X and boy Y, both 16, cannot be named because of their age. Each had a fascination with violence and torture, a jury at Manchester Crown Court heard. They both blamed each other for the murder and neither took responsibility for it. Deliberations lasted for four…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Articles LGBTQ+ News Life News Police Uganda

Uganda’s brutal anti-LGBTQ+ law is causing a surge in human rights abuses, activists say

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Uganda’s recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) has caused a surge in anti-LGBTQIA+ abuse, activists on the ground have said. Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. Enacted in May, the AHA upholds the criminalisation of same-sex sexual activity and orders that certain acts be punished with the death penalty. At least six people have been charged under the legislation, including two accused of “aggravated homosexuality” – something that is defined in the bill as sex with a minor, having sex while HIV-positive…

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Suella Braverman slams ‘woke’ police: ‘We don’t pay them to dance with drag queens’

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Suella Braverman, Home Secretary and Conservative MP for Fareham, has once again slammed what she describes as “woke” policing. Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. Her comments in the Commons on 19 September appeared to criticise how Pride events are monitored by the force and came mere weeks after she ordered a review into “political activism in police”. Nick Fletcher, another Conservative MP, began by sharing his belief that police would solve more crimes “if they started putting more bobbies on…

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LGBTQ+ adult store in Manchester attacked for fifth time in four months

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Police have launched an appeal for information after Clonezone, a well-known LGBTQIA+ adult store in Manchester, was attacked yet again. The shop, which is located on Sackville Street in Manchester’s city centre, was vandalised on Sunday, 10 September at approximately 2pm local time. CCTV shows two men approaching Clonezone on a motorbike before one gets off and attempts to smash the windows, which are now protected by iron bars due to the number of times it has been targeted. After failing to shatter them, police said they “then threw an…

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Man arrested over homophobic stabbings outside Two Brewers in Clapham

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A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the stabbings of two men outside the Two Brewers in Clapham last month. The suspect was arrested in South Norwood, London on 7 September on suspicion of two counts of GBH. He remains in police custody at this time. The stabbings, which took place at approximately 10:15pm on 13 August, are being treated as homophobic by the Metropolitan Police. Two men, aged in their 20s and 30s, were standing outside the LGBTQ+ venue when a man approached them and attacked them…

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Man pleads guilty to attacking Drag Race star The Vivienne in McDonald’s

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A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne. Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. Alan Whitfield, 50, of Tom Mann Close in Everton, punched the star in the face in McDonald’s on Edge Lane, Liverpool, on 16 June before running away, according to Merseyside Police. He admitted to assault by beating at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on 5 September, but denied the prosecution’s claims that it was fuelled by “homophobic hatred” – instead claiming that the…

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Articles Crime hate crime LGBTQ+ News Life News Northern Ireland Police

Police treating ‘no Irish, no gay’ graffiti in Northern Ireland as hate crime

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Police in Lurgan, Northern Ireland are treating graffiti that said “no Irish no gay” as a homophobic hate crime. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed that they had received a report of criminal damage on 18 August, but that the graffiti has potentially been there “for a number of years”. “Officers attended and spoke with local residents, who advised that the graffiti had been there for a number of years,” a spokesperson told The Belfast Telegraph. “The graffiti is being treated a homophobic hate crime.” The same slogan…

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US shop owner fatally shot over having LGBTQ+ Pride flag on display

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A shop owner in the US was shot dead after a dispute over displaying a Pride flag outside her establishment broke out. Laura Ann Carleton, 66, was found deceased at her Mag Pi shop in Cedar Glen, California, on 18 August. The suspect, who fled the scene on foot, was killed by police after being found allegedly still armed nearby. He had made “disparaging remarks” about the rainbow flag on show before shooting the victim, police confirmed. After being located, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said “a lethal force…

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Anti-LGBTQ+ attack Articles Clapham Crime LGBTQ+ News Life London Metropolitan Police News Police

Met Police release new images of Clapham stabbings suspect

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Investigators have released new images of the suspect they wish to identify in relation to the homophobic stabbings outside the Two Brewers in Clapham. The two new CCTV screenshots were taken from a route 50 bus in Thornton Heath at 8:30pm on 13 August, just under two hours before the incident took place. Detective Chief Inspector Jivan Saivb from the local policing team in Lambeth, who is leading the investigation, said: “These images provide a clearer picture of the person we need to identify and locate following this shocking attack.…

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