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Another suicide: Houston teen, victim of anti-gay bullying, shoots himself
Another teenage victim of anti-gay bullying has committed suicide. Asher Brown came home from school last Thursday while his parents were at work. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in Houston. He used his stepfather’s 9mm […]
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Denny’s waiter stabbed for ‘being gay’ in California hate crime
A California man was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of attempted murder and committing a hate crime after an employee at a Denny’s Restaurant was stabbed in the neck and throat. Police said the unnamed waiter was at work in the restaurant, which was closed, when Curtis Martin, 24, knocked on the closed Santa […]
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Two marines arrested in beating of gay man in Savannah
Two Marines were arrested and jailed Saturday on misdemeanor battery charges after they allegedly beat up a gay man in Savannah, Georgia. According to the Savannah Morning News, police responded to a call around 3:45 a.m. that an unconscious man was on the ground. At the scene, police found 26-year-old Kiren Daly motionless with friends […]
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Kenya police arrest 5 suspected homosexuals in raid on gay wedding
Kenya police on Friday arrested five suspected homosexuals in a coastal resort town after hundreds of residents protested over a planned gay wedding. A police official said two of the men had been found with wedding rings, attempting to get married, in the Kikambala beach resort, according to the BBC. The other three men were […]