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20 November 2012
US: Judge suspends gender reassignment order for trans woman prisoner, denies electrolysis 2 A judge has suspended a previous order made in September, which ruled that a trans woman prisoner should receive gender reassignment surgery in treatment for gender dysphoria.
19 November 2012
US: Trans prisoner requests electrolysis, and for court to refer to her as female 5 A trans woman prisoner incarcerated in an all male prison has requested electrolysis hair removal, and for the court to refer to her as female during ongoing proceedings, resulting in an appeal from prison officials.
2 November 2012
Brighton MP talks of crime concerns for city’s gay quarter 6 The Chairman of Brighton and Hove’s LGBT Community Safety Forum has welcomed an MP’s decision to speak out over the increasing number of criminal incidents that have been occurring in the city’s famous LGBT district.
16 October 2012
Wales: Teenager jailed for killing man after meeting victim on a gay website 31 A teenager who murdered a man after meeting the victim through a gay website has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years.
14 September 2012
US: Accused in brutal murder case said he did it to ‘make the world a better place’ 32 Jury selection will take place next week in a case where the young lover of a Portuguese writer admitted bludgeoning him to death and castrating him.
5 September 2012
Four US Marines arrested for possible homophobic assault outside California gay bar 11 Police in Long Beach, California, have arrested four members of the US Marine Corps for assaulting men outside a popular gay bar in the area.
2 September 2012
Historic gay sex convictions will be able to be deleted from October 14 From October, men with historic convictions for having consensual gay sex will be able to apply to have the convictions removed from official databases.
2 September 2012
In a legal first, a trans woman who was convicted of public indecency has her sentence altered 4 In a legal first, a trans woman has had her sentence altered due to the now unsuitable nature of a community order she was issued before gender reassignment.
30 August 2012
Egypt: Leader of “gay sex network” arrested by police 3 Egyptian police have arrested a man from Cairo based on the accusation that he was the head of a "gay sex network".
27 August 2012
Update: Anti-gay former school teacher arrested after admitting sexually abusing children + Police have appealed for more victims to come forward after a 52-year-old man in California was arrested following an admission that he sexually abused numerous children since the early 1980s.
22 August 2012
Police: Fake hate crime victim wanted to “spark change” through hoax attack + Police investigating an allegedly fake violent hate crime in the US state of Nebraska have said they believe to have found the motive behind the incident, during which the victim said she had derogatory words carved into her skin.
22 August 2012
Alleged false hate-crime victim to plead not guilty 1 A lesbian woman who allegedly made false claims that she was the victim of a violent hate crime, is to plead not guilty to the charge of false reporting.
7 August 2012
Manchester: Nurse convicted of homophobic verbal abuse against policeman 22 A nurse in Manchester has been convicted of homophobic abusing a policeman as he tried to break up a racially aggravated argument.
6 August 2012
‘Porn trial’ barrister ‘asks if sexual health clinics are for those who have riskier sex’ + A Crown Prosecution Service barrister has reportedly asked a trial witness whether people who attend sexual health clinics do so because they engaged in risky sexual practices.
31 July 2012
Buckinghamshire: Police appeal over potentially homophobic attack 10 Thames Valley Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses in High Wycombe after a man was physically assaulted and was thought to be subjected to verbal homophobic abuse in the early hours of Sunday morning.
27 July 2012
Belgium: Gay man killed at cruising spot 19 A suspect is being detained by police after a 61-year-old man was found dead at a gay cruising area of a park in the centre of Liège, Belgium.
23 July 2012
New search rules for trans police officers and suspects drawn up 26 It is all change for trans police and policing, as increased awareness of trans sensitivities sees new rules for searching suspects – both who can do the searching and how people should be searched – emerging in the last few weeks.
20 July 2012
Desmond Tutu: Anti-gay laws ‘as wrong as apartheid’ 94 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for the global decriminalisation of homosexuality to aid the fight against HIV, comparing anti-gay laws to racial segregation in his home country of South Africa.
18 July 2012
Turkey: ‘Twenty year old’ anti-gay stabbing circulates as news after paper goes online 3 The killing of a gay Turkish man by his teenage brother, believed to have happened twenty years ago, has circulated internationally as news after a Turkish website digitised its archives and placed them online this month.
13 July 2012
Jamaica ‘not intolerant of gays’, assistant police commissioner says 29 Jamaica's third highest ranking police official has said the country is not as anti-gay as "public hype" suggests, despite laws criminalising homosexuality.

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