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11 October 2012Peter Tatchell blasts the jailing of Barry Thew as ‘excessive’ 110 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has criticised the 4-month sentence handed down to Barry Threw, who has been jailed for wearing an offensive t-shirt in the aftermath of the deaths of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes. -
11 October 2012San Francisco: Man pleads not guilty to murdering partner + A 48-year-old man in San Francisco has appeared in court on a charge of murdering his long term partner. -
11 October 2012Manchester: Man jailed for mocking the deaths of PC Bone & PC Hughes + A man from Greater Manchester who wore a t-shirt daubed with offensive comments about the killings of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes has been jailed. -
11 October 2012Gambian president: I’ve ‘cured’ 68 HIV patients 31 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has once again made outspoken remarks about HIV and is repeating claims that he can treat the virus with herbs. -
11 October 2012UK: Newspaper libel defeat for Elton John 6 Sir Elton John was not libelled by the Times newspaper in a series of articles about tax avoidance, the High Court has ruled. -
11 October 2012New York: Male model wore genitalia of murdered lover + A court in New York has heard that a Portuguese model allegedly killed a gay fashion journalist and then wore the victim’s testicles on his wrists, claiming they could give him magical powers. -
10 October 2012US teen commits suicide following bullying claims 20 A school in East Hampton, the eastern tip of Long Island, is in the spotlight following the death of a teenager who it’s feared could have been the victim of anti-gay bullying. -
10 October 2012Russia: Pussy Riot band member released from jail 4 One member of the Russian LGBT-supporting punk band Pussy Riot has been freed from jail – although the other two women remain behind bars. -
10 October 2012Scotland: Footballer’s homophobic assault trial begins + A Scottish footballer “disguised” himself to get into a nightclub and then hurled homophobic abuse at workers who threw him out, a court has heard. -
10 October 2012UK: Serial killer Peter Moore launches new appeal + Serial killer Peter Moore, who murdered several gay men in 1995, is to appeal his life sentence at the Court of Appeal in London. -
9 October 2012Australia: Speaker Peter Slipper quits amid sex scandal + Australia’s parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has resigned after text messages showed he had used sexist and vulgar language in an exchange with a gay former staffer, who is suing him for sexual harassment. -
9 October 2012PC Fiona Bone laid to rest in Scotland + Fiona Bone, the police officer who was murdered in Manchester, has been laid to rest in Moray in north east Scotland. -
8 October 2012London: Hate crime memorial to take place at St Paul’s 7 An act of remembrance for all of those affected by hate crime will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London this Saturday. -
8 October 2012Italy: Police break trans prostitution ring 10 Italian police say they have broken a prostitution ring which brought transgender people from Latin America into the country. -
7 October 2012Sandi Toksvig: I was groped on air during the 1980s by a ‘famous individual’ 42 Gay comedian Sandi Toksvig, one of the country’s most prominent radio and TV stars, has told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that she was groped while broadcasting in the early 1980s. -
5 October 2012Canada: Trans group mourns killing of one of its members + The victim has been identified as January Marie Lapuz, according to CTV News. -
5 October 2012UK: Anti-gay cleric Abu Hamza can be extradited to the US, says High Court 59 The High Court has ruled radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza can now be extradited immediately to the US to face terror charges. -
5 October 2012California: Second lawsuit filed against gay ‘cure’ ban 26 A second federal lawsuit has been filed seeking to overturn California's new ban on gay conversion therapy for those under the age of 18. -
4 October 2012US: Trans prisoner files for expenses from gender-reassignment legal battle + Michelle Kosilek, the trans woman incarcerated in an all-male prison, has filed for the expenses she, and her attorney, are requesting from the court, following a ruling that her legal costs, as well as the cost of gender reassignment surgery, as a treatment for gender dysphoria. -
4 October 2012Pressure builds on Serbia over gay pride ban 9 The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has urged the authorities in Serbia to reconsider a ban on this weekend’s gay pride march in Belgrade.
