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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. -
4 October 2012Manchester: Funeral takes place for lesbian police officer + The funeral of PC Fiona Bone has taken place at Manchester Cathedral.
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3 October 2012Serbia bans gay pride parade, again 8 The Serbian interior ministry has banned a gay pride parade from taking place in the country’s capital Belgrade for the second year running after ultra-nationalists threatened the march and the Serbian Orthodox Church condemned it. -
3 October 2012Manchester: LGF pays tribute to fallen police officers + Manchester’s Lesbian & Gay Foundation has praised the city’s police service as the funeral of PC Nicola Hughes, who was murdered alongside her lesbian colleague PC Fiona Bone last month, has taken place at Manchester Cathedral. -
3 October 2012Russian court backs St Petersburg’s anti-gay law 15 Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the country’s second largest city of St Petersburg can continue to enforce its homophobic censorship law. -
3 October 2012Muslim anti-gay cleric Abu Hamza should not be sent to the US, says UN adviser 24 The UK government would be complicit in torture if it extradites anti-gay Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and his fellow terror suspects to the United States, a senior UN adviser has warned. -
2 October 2012Missouri: 17-year-old pleads guilty to anti-gay attack 7 A teenager in the US state of Missouri has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge over the beating of a gay neighbour in July of this year. -
2 October 2012Ukraine gives initial approval to anti-gay law 11 Human rights campaigners have criticised Ukraine after the country’s parliament passed a draft LGBT censorship law. -
2 October 2012UK: Muslim anti-gay cleric Abu Hamza in ‘poor health’ ahead of extradition 34 Lawyers for Abu Hamza have asked the High Court for an injunction so they can carry out further medical tests on the radical anti-gay cleric.
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2 October 2012Sydney: Death of gay man ‘possible’ hate crime + Police in the Australian city of Sydney are treating the death of a gay man in an apartment fire as “suspicious”.
