Anti-LGBTQ violence

Miami police have arrested a man in the shooting deaths of two men that he thought were gay and coming onto him.

A suspect is in custody in the double homicide of a gay couple found slain in their Wilton Manors, Fla., home over the weekend. Peter Serge Avsenew, 26, was arrested miles away from where police believe he murdered Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams. According to police, Avsenew lives in Hollywood, Fla., where the victims […]

Police in Wilton Manors, Fla., have identified two men who they believe are the victims of a double murder that occurred over the weekend. Stephen Adams, 52, and Kevin Powell, 47, were found dead inside their home on Sunday night. The two men were domestic partners.

AUSTIN, Texas — Two men say they were attacked after leaving a gay night club in downtown Austin on Christmas night, by five men who jumped from a vehicle yelling anti-gay slurs.

Seth Walsh, a California teen who spent 9 days on life support after attempting suicide over relentless bullying because he was gay, died Sept 28. Now, Seth’s mother, Wendy Walsh, has teamed up with the ACLU to help make a difference in the lives of LGBT youth facing harassment.

Four Long Island teenagers have been arrested and face assault and harassment charges in an alleged anti-gay bias attack on a 14-year-old boy they believed was gay. The victim was stomped and kicked on his arms, legs, stomach and thighs.

A gay rights parade in the Serbian capital of Belgrade erupted in violence Sunday as thousands of police deployed to protect the marchers clashed with gangs of anti-gay protesters, sparking riots, injuries and arrests. Protesters chanting “death to homosexuals!” hurled bricks, stones, glass bottles and stun grenades at riot police. Police responded by firing tear […]

Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, spoke at the annual national dinner of the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday evening to address the recent suicides within the LGBT community related to anti-gay bullying.

Eight members of the Latin King Goonies, a Bronx, NY street gang are in custody, after they allegedly beat and tortured a new recruit they thought was gay, and two other men in separate, gruesome assaults earlier this week.

Three men have been arrested in connection with a pair of alleged ant-gay attacks against gay men in New York City this past weekend. In an incident at the famed Stonewall Inn — widely considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement when rioters clashed with police there in 1969 — a gay man was […]