May 22 2012 12:51 PM ET
Man Found Dead in LA's Gay Neighborhood
Gay makeup artist Bobby Khamvongsa was found dead with multiple stab wounds in West Hollywood near the Beverly Center over the weekend. Police arrested Richard Herrera, 29, who also went to high school with Khamvongsa in Kalihi, Hawaii, according to KITV News. Khamvongsa's family does not know what kind of relationship the two men had.
May 21 2012 7:37 AM ET
Dharun Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman said that the defendant acted out of “colossal insensitivity.”
May 19 2012 11:12 PM ET
Did Lesbian Couple Fake Hate Crime?
A lesbian couple in Parker, Colorado who claimed to be the victims of a hate crime last October when the home they share was vandalized, have been arrested for false reporting.
May 14 2012 5:13 PM ET
Four Gay Men to Be Hanged in Iran for Sodomy
Four men have been sentenced to death for sodomy in the Iranian town of Choram, a town in the relatively remote and undeveloped Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, according to Pink News, Europe's largest gay news service. Saadat Arefi, Vahid Akbari, Javid Akbari, and Houshmand Akbari are due to be executed soon, according to a report from the Human Rights Activist News Agency in Iran.
May 14 2012 4:10 PM ET
Transgender Woman Killed in Suspicious Fire in Brooklyn
As residents streamed out of a building in New York, escaping the three-alarm fire that had engulfed their four-story complex in a gritty neighborhood of Brooklyn, one woman wasn't with them: Lorena Escalera, a 25-year-old transgender woman who was called the "Puerto Rican Beyoncé" by neighbors, fans, and fellow performers.
May 12 2012 3:36 PM ET
Police in Arkansas Search for Killer of Trans Woman
Marcel Camero Tye, a 25-year-old transgender woman in Arkansas, was murdered over a year ago, but despite criticism from local advoctes, investigators say they haven't stopped looking for her killer even though the case is cold. According to a new report on KTHV, Tye was found on Highway 334 in St. Francis County, Ark., in March 2011. She had been shot to death and, most likely, dragged beneath a vehicle as the killer fled the scene.
May 09 2012 5:19 PM ET
'Cold Blood' Tackles Brutal 1995 Lesbian Murder in Park Slope
When a July 5, 1995. attack in the lesbian-friendly Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., left Sylvia Lugo dead and her girlfriend, Amanda Leach, wounded and raped, many thought the police bungled the case. Leach said a Hispanic man had attacked the couple, but police thought Leach was to blame and the case was played out for months in the media.
May 05 2012 2:22 PM ET
Friends of Dharun Ravi Ask Court for Probation, Not Jail Time
Friends of Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers University student convicted of webcam spying in the high-profile suicide case of Tyler Clementi, have urged the court for probation, not jail time, in sentencing. In letters filed to the court Friday, friends portrayed Ravi as a good person who had no malicious intent in the recording and broadcasting of an intimate encounter between Clementi and another man. Clementi committed suicide in 2010 by jumping off the George Washington Bridge following the incident.
May 02 2012 3:24 PM ET
CeCe McDonald Pleads Guilty, Headed to Prison
Minnesota transgender woman CeCe McDonald appears to have brought an end to her sensationalized trial where she stood accused of killing a man who allegedly berated and attacked her.
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