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Fifty years after the death of Dr George Duncan in Adelaide there are fresh calls to exhume his body and launch a new investigation into his murder. Warning: This story contains information about a hate crime, homophobia and suicide. The Adelaide Advertiser has reported that the boyfriend of one of the original witness to the […]
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12 Jul 2022 /
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The NSW Government has announced that it will establish a Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes, with the Honourable Justice John Sackar as Commissioner to lead the Inquiry. The decision to establish a judicial inquiry was first announced in November last year, following the publication of a damning parliamentary report released mid-2021. Premier Domonic […]
Tags: ACON, Alex Greenwich, assault, Dominic Perrottet, hate crime, John Sackar, murder, new south wales, Nicholas Parkhill, Special Commission of Inquiry, Sydney
16 Apr 2022 |
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Sydney man Scott White, 49, has been charged with the cold-case murder of Scott Johnson. It has been reported that Police will allege that White met Johnson at a Manly pub in December 1988 and the two traveled to nearby area which was known to be an area where gay men met. Scott Johnson is […]
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13 May 2020 |
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Three NSW teenagers have been arrested over the murder of a Canberra man. One line of investigation police are pursuing is that he may have been using a gay dating app in the lead up to his death. Police believe Peter Keeley, 56, may have been using the gay dating app Grindr to meet with […]
Tags: ACT, Broulee, Canberra, Dating App, Grindr, hate crime, murder, NSW, Peter Kelley, police
14 Feb 2020 |
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The families of four young men killed by ‘Grindr Killer’ Stephen Port are suing London’s Metropolitan Police for failing to notice that their relatives deaths were murders and that a serial killer was behind their deaths. Port met his victims, who were all in their twenties, on a gay social networking sites including Grindr and […]
Tags: Fitlads, Grindr, London, murder, serial killer, Stephen Port
15 May 2017 |
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An Idaho man has been given two 28-year sentences, that will be served concurrently, in relation to a brutal fatal assault on a gay man. Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, pleaded guilty to a U.S. federal hate crime for attacking Steven Nelson last year at a remote wildlife refuge while repeatedly using a homophobic slur. […]
Tags: assault, hate crime, IDAHO, Kelly Schneider, murder, Steven Nelson
28 Apr 2017 |
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly denied any homosexual people have been arrested and detained in The Chechen Republic. Newspapers in Russia have reported that they leader of the autonomous region denied the accusations of arrest, torture and murder during an exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Provocative articles about Chechnya (have) reported so-called arrests,” […]
Tags: arrest, Boris Johnson, Chechnya, Julie Bishop, murder, Nikki Halley, Ramzan Kadyrov, The Chechen Republic, torture, Vladimir Putin
20 Apr 2017 |
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A spokesperson from Russian President Vladimir Putin has told journalists there is no reliable information about the reported detention and murder of gay men in The Chechen Republic. Reports were first published in Russian media at the beginning of the month. The initial reports suggest that more than 100 men have been rounded up and […]
Tags: Bisexual, Boris Johnson, Chechen Republic, Chechnya, detention, gay, Joe Biden, Julie Bishop, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, murder, queer, Rex Tllerson, Russia, transgender, Vladimir Putin
15 Apr 2017 |
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Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has raised concern over the report that 100 men in The Chechen Republic have been detained because of their sexuality. Reports were first published in Russian media at the beginning of the month. The initial reports suggest that more than 100 men have been rounded up and held at several […]
Tags: Alvi Karimov, Amnesty International, arrest, Boris Johnson, Chechen Republic, Chechnya, detention, gay, Hannah Wahlsten, Julie Bishop, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, murder, queer, Ramzan Kadyrov, Rex Tillerson, Tim Wilson, torture
14 Apr 2017 |
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Gay men in the Russian region of The Chechen Republic are fleeing as authorities reportedly round up people who are gay, or perceived to be gay. Men are allegedly being held in an detention facility in the town of Argun, 20kn from Grozy, the capital of the Chechen Republic. The facilities has been described in […]
Tags: Alvi Karimov, Amnesty International, Antonio Tajan, Argun, Chechen Republic, Chechnya, detained, gay, Grozny, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, murder, Natalia Poplevskaya, Novaya Gazeta, Pride in London, Protest, queer, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia, Steve Taylor, torture, uropean Pride Organisers Association
12 Apr 2017 |
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