All posts tagged "killings"
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Texas Man Found Not Guilty of Murdering Two Drag Performers
The suspect claimed he shot the victims, a gay man and transgender woman, in self-defense following a sexual encounter gone wrong.
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Human Rights Campaign issues report on anti-trans violence as U.S. deaths reach record high
Report's release coincides with Transgender Day of Remembrance and new FBI data showing rise in anti-trans hate crimes
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Second transgender woman killed in South Carolina in past 15 days
A second transgender woman has been killed in South Carolina in just over two weeks, becoming the 14th transgender person killed in the United States...
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HRC’s Chad Griffin to Trump: Speak out against anti-gay crimes in Chechnya
Griffin says silence from the White House sends a message that human rights abuses abroad will be condoned
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Jamaica bans anti-gay U.S. pastor Steven Anderson
A controversial Arizona pastor who once celebrated the deadly mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando was been banned from yet another country as he...
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Iraqi cleric says not to kill LGBT people
Human Rights Watch hopes radical cleric's decree will stop violence against gender-nonconforming Iraqis
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Black Lives Matter’s Trans Liberation Tuesday stops traffic
Dozens of demonstrators attending a Black Lives Matter “Trans Liberation Tuesday” protest in D.C.’s Franklin Square blocked traffic in the middle of a busy downtown intersection...
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Gay men detail Islamic State anti-gay brutality in U.N. testimony
Two gay men who fled their home countries after Islamic State militants seized control of their hometowns shared the gruesome details of anti-gay persecution and...
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United Nations holds first historic meeting on LGBT rights
The United Nations Security Council is meeting today, Monday, Aug. 24, to discuss anti-LGBT persecution and violence for the first time in the organization’s history....
