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Police arrested 12 trans women & cut their hair off in public in a brutal raid
They were forced to chant “until their male voices came out” in front of a crowd.
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51 people arrested at a gay spa in Indonesia
Even though homosexuality is legal there, some of those arrested might be in prison for years on trumped up charges.
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Rentboy.com raided, CEO arrested for promoting prostitution
CEO Jeffrey Hurant, along with six co-workers, were taken into custody on Tuesday.
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Egypt refers to trial 26 ‘suspected’ gay men arrested in bath house raid
The official from the prosecutors’ office said the trial will begin Sunday, only two weeks after the men were arrested in a much publicized raid on a Cairo bathhouse.
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Egypt security forces arrest 26 men for homosexuality in bath house raid
Egyptian security forces have raided a bath house and arrested 25 men suspected of homosexuality, dragging them naked out of the building in downtown Cairo.
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Remembering Stonewall: Why LGBT pride can now be celebrated openly
NEW YORK — In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, uniformed and plain-clothed New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Police in Uganda raid workshop on gay rights, arrest LGBT activists
Police in Kampala, Uganda on Monday raided a gay rights meeting and arrested several LGBT activists gathered at the Essela Hotel in Najjeera, a Kampala suburb, accusing the participants of “propagating gay issues in Uganda.”
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Police detain 133 in raid on ‘gay’ party in Mumbai citing indecent behavior
Police in the northern Mumbai suburb of Oshiwara staged a raid on a “gay” party at a beach house in the popular Versova Beach area early Sunday arresting 133 persons, including transgender Bollywood film star Bobby Darling on charges of “indecent behavior.”
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Six police officers fired, nine disciplined over botched raid of Atlanta gay bar
Six Atlanta police officers have been fired following an investigation into the botched raid of an Atlanta gay bar in 2009.
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Atlanta gay bar gets $1 million for bogus raid; still no resolution in Fort Worth invasion
The Atlanta City Council last week voted 14-0 to award the Atlanta Eagle bar $1 million in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a private attorney on behalf of 19 clients unjustly arrested in a botched police raid last September.