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Two 17 year-old girls and an 18 year-old man have been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police in the Trafalgar Square gay bashing murder of 62 year-old Ian Baynham. According to a Metropolitan Police spokesman, the girls were arrested at their homes in south-east London, as was the 18-year-old male. They are being held at separate police stations and will be …

In yet another example of how a “gay panic” defense can still work, Robert Hannah, 19, has been sentenced to a mere 180 days in jail for the September 2008 murder of Washington, DC resident Toby Hunter. Tony Randolph Hunter died several days after being punched in the head by Robert Hannah, 19. The incident happened on September 10th 2008. …

Life support machines for London resident Ian Baynham, 62, were turned off last night, three months after his vicious gay bashing by two women in Trafalgar Square. Police continue to seek his attackers and have just released surveillance images of the assault. Police are searching for two blonde women and a dark-skinned man who were shown on CCTV in the …

Even though the notes left on his body said “This is what will happen to ALL gays!” and “batty boy”, the Jamaican government is claiming that the murder of British honorary consul John Terry was not a hate crime. Police believe the murder may have been the result of an argument between Terry and someone he knew. There were no …

The UK Guardian reports on how Islamic radicals in Iraq use gay chat rooms to lure in and murder gay men. Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for …

“This is what will happen to ALL gays” read the note left at the scene of the strangling murder of John Terry, the British honorary consul to Jamaica. Police believe that Mr Terry, who was married but separated from his wife, knew his attacker. There were no signs of forced entry at the property. However, it is believed that the …

Teenage killer Brandon McInerney, who last year walked into his 8th grade classroom and shot openly gay classmate Lawrence King in the head, has pleaded not guilty in a Ventura County, California classroom. Teen murder defendant Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of classmate Larry King, 15, at …

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …

Human Rights Watch will today call on the Iraqi government to do more to protect gay men, saying that hundreds of suspected homosexuals may have been killed there in recent months. Although the scope of the problem remains unclear, hundreds of gay men may have been killed this year in predominantly Shiite Muslim areas, the report’s authors said, basing their …

A 20 year-old Israeli soldier is in custody after admitting to posting death threats to the attendees of Saturday’s solidarity rally for the victims of the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT center. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in Sunday extended the remand of Shmuel Preimark, a 20-year-old Nahal Haredi soldier from the capital, who was arrested Saturday on suspicion of …

More than 70,000 Israelis, including President Shimon Peres, attended last night’s solidarity rally for the victims of the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT youth center. “The shots which struck this proud community affected us all as human beings, as Jews and as Israelis. The man who targeted the two victims targeted all of us,” Peres said. Two people died …

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT center today, saying the attack had “the markings of terrorism.” Netanyahu said that while all murders were shocking, Saturday night’s killings were particularly so. “The idea of someone entering a youth club and beginning to commit serial murder – it bears the markings of …

Linda Harvey, the founder of Mission America, one of the viciously anti-gay groups that opposes the Day Of Silence in public schools, has issued a statement about the Tel Aviv murders. After a rote sentence denouncing the murders, Harvey launches into complaints that gay groups are blaming religious extremists. “[I]t is deplorable this incident is already being used by the …

Memorial vigils for the victims of the shooting at an LGBT center in Tel Aviv will take place around the U.S. this week. San Francisco: Tonight. Monday, from 530-6 @ Congregation Sha’ar Zahav (16th/Dolores — the largely LGBT Synagogue) and marching to the LGBT Center by 6:30 p.m. for a vigil (Market/Octavia). (Via SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty) Washington DC: Tonight. …

The speaker says, in part: “I came here to show my support for those who live in the proud gay community and are grieving over their dead. I hope that this terrible day will also give you strength and mark a turning point. This day should give children the strength to tell their parents ‘I’m gay’. This day should give …

“They are shooting at us. The loaded gun is aimed not only at gay and lesbian teenagers at a weekly meeting, and not only at the gay community, but rather, at all those who fear the next time, and it shall come. Make no mistake about it, this despicable act will grant many others the opportunity to swear and threaten …

A massive manhunt is underway in Tel Aviv for the masked man who opened fire at the city’s LGBT center yesterday, killing three youths and wounding eleven more. Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed three people at a youth club in the worst ever …

At 5pm Israeli time today there will be demonstrations in several cities. I’ll have photos later today. There will be another protest on Tuesday in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. A Facebook support group is here. Dr. Michael Brown, the “messianic Jewish conservative leader” who organized last week’s anti-gay protest of gay Pride in Charlotte, North Carolina, has issued a press …