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Portuguese model Renato Seabra has confessed to the grisly murder of gay activist and fashion journalist Carlos Castro, whose mutilated body was found in a posh midtown NYC hotel over the weekend. Seabra told police that he used a corkscrew to sever Castro’s testicles in order to free the older man of his “homosexual demons.” Seabra added that he himself …

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released this photo of a man they believe may have been an accomplice in yesterday’s shooting. This image was captured by security cameras at the Tucson-area Safeway where Rep. Giffords was holding her meeting. Police have not yet revealed what relationship, if any, the man in this photo may have had with the shooter. …

After discussing the details of the shooting and the investigation, Sheriff Dupnik rightfully lays into the climate of violent rhetoric which surely led to today’s tragedy.

From an undated photo on the Arizona Daily Star: “Jared Loughner, a volunteer, stands in the background during the Tucson Festival of Books.” (I cropped out the main subject of the photo.)

The mainstream media MUST DEMAND a response from Palin over this. I screamed my fucking head off about this map last year for just this reason.

Noted Portuguese gay activist and fashion journalist Carlos Castro, 65, has been found dead and gruesomely mutilated in a midtown New York City hotel. Castro’s traveling companion, a young model, is in police custody. The naked body of Carlos Castro, 65, was found lying face-up in a pool of blood inside his 34th-floor room at the InterContinental New York Times …

Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most populous province was assassinated today by his own bodyguard, who pumped 26 bullets into his boss for opposing a law that imposes the death penalty for “insulting Islam.” Taseer vented his opposition publicly – even using Twitter – to hard-line blasphemy laws that effectively order death for anyone convicted of insulting …

Florida police have captured a man driving the stolen vehicle of the Wilton Manors gay couple they suspect he murdered on Christmas weekend. Peter Serge Avsenew, 26, was captured near Dundee, Fl., miles away from where police said he murdered Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams on Sunday. The couple was found dead in their home by police. Avsenew, who …

South Florida Gay News reports that a gay couple was found murdered in their Wilton Manors home this weekend. The two men whose bodies were found inside their rented home at 2513 NE 8th Avenue in Wilton Manors were domestic partners Kevin Mark Powell, 47, and Steve Adams, 52, former residents of Hollywood, Florida. Their bodies were discovered by the …

Yesterday it took a Florida jury less than 30 minutes to decide that John Ditullio, a 24 year-old neo-Nazi, deserved life in prison without parole for stabbing a 17 year-old boy to death because he was gay. Earlier on Thursday, Ditullio spoke directly to the jury during his sentencing at the West Pasco County Courthouse. “I’m not going to beg …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Father Byron Canada sentenced to 11 years in prison in $2.7M real estate scam.Arkansas: Pastor Robert Burnham resigns after bust in prostitution sting.Indiana: Pastor Vaughn Reeves sentenced to 54 years in prison for embezzling over $13M from church construction investors.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun charged two counts of murder in the killings of a …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor J.P. Hale sentenced to six years in prison for indecent liberties with a child.Pennsylvania: Father Robert Timchak sentenced to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.North Carolina: Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw arrested for the rape of an 11 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor David K. Love arrested for the murder of a …

Jeromie Cancel (above right) has been found guilty in the murder of Manhattan college student Kevin Pravia, who was strangled in his apartment by Cancel after the part allegedly met to conduct a drug deal in Union Square. The defense had implied “gay panic” as a reason for the murder. Duncan Osborne reports at Gay City News: The trial opened …

Texas police have charged a 19 year-old student with murder after he led investigators to the beaten and burned body of 18 year-old fellow student Joshua Wilkerson (left). The suspect claims the pair fought after Wilkerson made sexual advances on him. The suspect, identified as Hermillo Moralez, beat Joshua Wilkerson to death with a large wooden object sometime Tuesday afternoon, …

In August 2008, openly gay Pace University student Jason Pravia, 19, was murdered in his Chelsea apartment after he left a downtown party. According to reports, Pravia left the party extremely drunk and went to Union Square to score drugs. There he met Jeromie Cancel, 22, an occasional dealer and former mental patient who accompanied Pravia back to his apartment. …

Troubling news from the trial of confessed killer of gay ABC newsman George Weber. Jurors in the Brooklyn murder trial of the teenager accused in the sex-charged stabbing death of WABC newsman George Weber yesterday told the judge they were deadlocked but will return today for further deliberations. In the middle of their second day of deliberations, the jurors sent …

Gay City News reports today that according to a portion of latest documents revealed via Wikileaks, the Pentagon knew about the murders of gay men in Iraq for more than a year before news outlets reported them. Via Duncan Osborne: “The male was shot (___) times in the chest, and a note was discovered on the body stating that the …

Last year 16 year-old John Katehis brutally stabbed to death gay ABC newsman George Weber after the pair hooked up via a Craiglist hooker ad. Weber allegedly hired the teen to “smother” him in an S/M scene. After his arrest, the killer claimed that he had stabbed Weber over 50 times in self-defense. Katehis’ trial began in New York City …