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2 October 2012
Missouri: 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 2012
Sydney: 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”.
25 September 2012
New York: Arrest in McDonald’s anti-trans attack case + 24-year-old Jamar McLeod was attacked by a man who reportedly made homophobic slurs about his transgender girlfriend, Jaslisa Griffin.
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.
31 August 2012
Gwent police to offer extra help for LGBT victims of domestic violence 6 Victims of same-sex domestic abuse are to be offered extra support by police in Wales.
29 August 2012
Detroit: Hate-crime assault suspect pleads guilty 2 A man in Detroit entered a guilty plea in court today, admitting that he assaulted a man in a corner shop based on the assumption that the victim was gay.
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.
10 August 2012
Anti-homophobia march takes place at University of Alberta in support of assaulted student 3 A fortnight after an apparent homophobic attack on a student from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, hundreds of locals showed their support for the victim in a march against homophobia.
24 July 2012
Hate crime vigils organiser brings Olympic torch to Soho 6 The organiser of the 17-24-30 hate crime vigils paused with his Olympic torch in Soho yesterday to remember victims of anti-gay crimes after running in the official relay in south London.
24 July 2012
Nebraska: Hundreds attend candlelit vigil for lesbian after attack 12 Hundreds of people have attended a vigil for the Nebraskan woman who had gay slurs carved into her skin and her home set on fire while she was bound inside it.
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.
14 July 2012
US: Three Atlanta men jailed for anti-gay attack 16 Three men in the Georgia city of Atlanta, US, have been sentenced to five years in jail and a further five on probation for an assault on a gay man.
12 July 2012
Chile’s president signs hate crime legislation into law 15 Chile's president Sebastian Pinera signed anti-discrimination legislation into law today.
6 July 2012
London: Anti-gay hate preachers to speak at conference this weekend 58 On the 8 July 2012, London will host a conference entitled “The Month of Mercy” featuring several extreme jihadist hate preachers, some of which have previously used hate speech against gays and in some cases called for applying the death penalty for this “sin”.
4 July 2012
South Africa and Brazil demand UN action on gay rights 17 United Nations ambassadors for South Africa and Brazil have demanded more action and discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity as part as universal human rights standards, and to combat hate crimes.
3 July 2012
Suffolk: Man fined after threatening transgender neighbour 17 A building worker in Ipswich has been convicted of what is believed to be the first offence officially motivated by transphobia in Suffolk.
26 June 2012
Texas: Teenage lesbian couple shot in possible hate crime 10 Two teenage girls in the US state of Texas have been shot in a possible hate crime, with one being fatally wounded.
21 June 2012
Malta: Gender identity and sexual orientation included in hate crime laws 10 The Maltese parliament has extended its hate crime laws for the first time to protect citizens on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
8 June 2012
Liverpool: Hate crime and social housing conference today 2 A conference designed for and by social landlords in collaboration with gay and trans art and social justice organisation Homotopia will take place in Liverpool today.

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