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Stonewall encourages festive PDA with Proud Mistletoe kiss campaign

News
Dec 17 2021

Queer couples share tender, steamy, defiant kisses in new Stonewall anti-hate campaign

Police officers stand behind a police line

UK
Sep 23 2021

Young men ‘whipped with belts’ in horrific suspected homophobic attack

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: A Parade goer stands in front of the QANTAS float ahead of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on March 02, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade began in 1978 as a march to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York and has been held every year since to promote awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

World
Mar 02

Sydney Mardi Gras comes to a halt as parade pays moving tribute to killed gay couple

A memorial has been created on the pavement at Zamocka Street in Bratislava, Slovakia after a 'radicalised teen' shot dead two men at Tepláreň

Crime
Oct 14 2022

Slovakia shooting outside LGBTQ+ bar could be terrorism, prosecutor says

A picture of Bo Alford in a car park, wearing a pink shirt.

US
Jul 28 2023

Pro-LGBTQ+ church set on fire following video of visit by right-wing YouTuber

Police officers stand behind a cordon

UK
Dec 03 2021

Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes surged after COVID lockdown lifted, figures show

far-right party Vox leader Santiago Abascal holds his hand up during a political rally in Spain ahead of the general election as an LGBTQ+ flag can be seen in the background

Explainers
Jul 21 2023

Spain’s election could put the far-right in power – with disastrous consequences for LGBTQ+ people

Two photos of a teenaged boy

UK
May 31 2022

Trans girl assaulted by teen as friends hurled ‘appalling’ abuse ‘because of how she looked’

Emma Jay Webber has made history as the first openly lesbian finalist of an international pageant.

UK
Mar 16 2023

First lesbian Miss Great Britain finalist vows to use platform to raise tackle anti-LGBTQ+ hate

An NSW Police officer during a Mardi Gras parade.

World
Feb 28

U-turn sees police re-invited to Sydney Mardi Gras – but they can’t wear uniforms

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has a long history of supporting right-wing policies. (Getty)

Europe
Mar 15 2023

Italy’s far-right prime minister tells Milan to stop registering same-sex couples’ children

A screenshot of the police outside Club Q in Colorado Springs.

US
Nov 20 2022

Tributes pour in after five killed in mass shooting at gay bar: ‘We have to protect LGBTQ+ lives’

Scottish Tory MSP Stephen Kerr wears a suit and tie as he speaks before politicians gathered in Holyrood. He has been an opponent of Scotland's pro-trans Gender Recognition Reform bill

Politics
Apr 16 2023

Scottish Tory apologises after linking trans people and ‘learning difficulties’

Trans people don't report hate crimes to the police.

Trans
Oct 21 2021

Victims of transphobic hate explain the simple, bare-faced reason they don’t report to police

Joshua Newton and Victoria Smith

Crime
Jul 26 2023

Two charged over death of trans teenager on a first date in North Carolina

A 40-year-old man was arrested in Leeds city centre after becayse of his hate-filed views about the LGBT+ community and premarital sex

UK
Sep 08 2022

Street preachers ordered to drop homophobic hate speech in new code of conduct

In these side-by-side photographs, Mark Sheehan is blooded and bandaged with a swollen nose

Gay
Aug 17 2022

Gay man’s birthday celebrations end with him being brutally beaten on a bus: ‘Justice will happen’

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Courts Building

Law
Dec 09 2021

Jussie Smollett’s lawyer compares alleged attackers to drug lord Pablo Escobar

Two men, one wearing red and the other black, stand in a shop

Crime
Sep 06 2021

Men mugged and slashed with glass bottle in apparent homophobic hate crime

Jussie Smollett arrives in court

US
Feb 27 2022

Months after hate crime hoax guilty verdict, Jussie Smollett calls for new trial