Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds at the Istanbul Pri March last weekend, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, as well as journalists attemptg to report on the June 26 event. The number of arrts 2022 is three-tim more than the arrts durg the prev seven Istanbul Pri march bed. Thirty-four of those arrted were youth, acrdg to Kaos GL, a Turkish LGBT rights group.
Contents:
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
- D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- LOUISIANA SHERIFF US UNNSTUTNAL LAW TO ARRT GAY MEN
- LOUISIANA POLICE STG TARGETS, ARRTS GAY MEN FOR SEX USG UNNSTUTNAL ANTI-SODOMY LAW
- INDONIA’S CRACKDOWN ON GAY MEN MOV FROM BARS INTO THE HOME
- ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG, A GAY EGYPTIAN TAK HER LIFE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
- CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY PHED EX-PARTNER DURG FIGHT, ACRDG TO ALLEGATNS URT RERDS
- RSIA THREATENS TO ARRT GAY MEN FATHERG CHILDREN VIA SURROGACY
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
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Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights. A 53-year-old woman has been arrted, police said, after an activist told a crowd at a trans pri event to punch genr-cril people the the march London on July 8, an activist was filmed apparently llg for protters to “punch Terfs the face” Metropolan Police said a woman had now been arrted on spicn of cement to vlence Wtmster after a vio of the cint was wily shared on social is an abbreviatn for “trans-exclnary radil femist”, a term ed to scribe people who believe that a trans woman’s genr inty is the vio, the activist was apparently seen tellg a cheerg crowd: “I was gog to e here and be really fluffy, be really nice and be really lovely and queer and gay and lgh.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
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A nvictn of an “unnatural and lasciv act” is nsired a send-gree mismeanor and is punishable by up to 60 days jail and a $500 discsg the circumstanc surroundg the Operatn Park Hopper arrts laid out the statement, Lambda Legal Director of Constutnal Ligatn San Sommer told NBC Out “entrapment is fely a law enforcement tool ed agast gay men. ”Stern poted to a prev se Long Beach, Calif., where a urt threw out the nvictn of a gay man who had been arrted for cisg, bee was led that the police partment had acted on unnstutnal “anim toward homosexuals. ”“Put simply, is not at all clear that the Volia County Sheriff remaed wh nstutnal boundari his zeal to arrt, imprison and huiate the men, ” Stern of the men arrted Operatn Park Hopper were middle-aged or olr, which Sommer speculated uld be ditive of generatnal differenc between olr and younger gay men.
[ Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]Sheriff’s spokwoman Crystal Clark fend the operatn as way of protectg children and said accatns that the stg was prejudiced agast gay men “are absurd, and que ankly, offensive.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
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Havg officers go unrver to target cisg — which men pick each other up for sex public — was a major aspect of those anti-gay efforts, cludg those by the Johns and raids targetg the LGBTQ muny cled the late 20th century, Stewart-Wter said — particular, police stopped raidg gay bars the face of public cricism. ”Durg the mid-century heyday of anti-gay policg, Stewart-Wter said, teachers and profsors arrted the stgs were often sgled out for particularly harsh public shamg, due to the myth that gay men pose a particular threat to said Chronister’s foc on the safety of children furthers that false and pernic stereotype.
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Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker om Queens, was dgged at the Rz, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, and left wh a group of men who abandoned his body the back of a taxi on the Lower East Si roughly one hour later, his fay month later, Mr.
HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?
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"Sargeant Delgado was unable to nfirm whether the arrts were at the hands of uniformed or placloth Washgton Post scrib Meridian Hill Park as a "gatherg place for all of the District's disparate trib: black and whe, rich and poor, young and old, immigrant and lol, gay and straight, borg and bizarre. The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar New York Cy, was no different than many others before s, before and after the rts, some law enforcement officers and agenci targeted known LGBTQ-iendly tablishments an effort to shut them down, btalize patrons, and arrt people who vlated the homophobic and transphobic polici of the time, acrdg to the Natnal Park Foundatn, an anizatn that foc on U.
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
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Reported police misnduct, cludg unjtified arrt, e of excsive force and Samuel, of the Gay Officers Actn League, a nonprof LGBTQIA law enforcement advocy group, said that s members were upset by anizers’ cisn to remove law enforcement groups om the lp. “That was the jtifitn for so much blackmailg and harassment of gay people and trans people by the police bee they uld still charge you wh sodomy and you would actually go to jail for havg nsensual sex wh another adult. Acrdg to the Prison Policy Iniative (PPI), a crimal jtice rearch and advocy group, LGBTQ people, of every age group, are overreprented the crimal jtice 2019, a PPI study found that gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals were 2.
SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. (Istanbul) – Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds of people at the Istanbul Pri March on June 26, 2022, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today. The same day, Fahrett Altun, Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s munitns director, ma an anti-LGBT speech, sayg that “Fai and children [are] targeted through … tolerance for homosexualy propaganda” and llg homosexualy “ugls.
Rearchers analyzg the most recent Natnal Inmate Survey found that LGB people are rcerated at a rate over three tim that of the total adult populatn: 1, 882 per 100, 000 lbian, gay, and bisexual people are rcerated, pared wh 612 per 100, 000 U. Our analysis of the NSDUH data reveals that people on probatn and parole are almost twice as likely to be lbian, gay, or bisexual than people not on probatn and parole – and aga, lbian and bisexual women are pecially overreprented:.
MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
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Acrdg to the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force’s Injtice at Every Turn: A Report of the Natnal Transgenr Discrimatn Survey, nearly half of trans people reported that they do not feel fortable seekg help om police. But as the anniversary of Lawrence and Garner's urt w approach, gay and lbian Texans are wonrg how far they've e the battle for their rights — and how far they have to Garner (left) and John Lawrence were platiffs the U. Quotg a prev abortn lg, Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote his 2003 majory opn that this and siar laws crimalizg gay sex 13 other stat were unnstutnal bee "our obligatn is to fe the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral .
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D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
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All but one — to give greater legal ver to adoptn agenci that ce relign to ny kids to prospective parents — failed to bee the absence of protectns om the state, ci like Dallas have taken charge, adoptg ordanc barrg discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Texans.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
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Texas still echo urt lgs across the 's heard at llege gay-straight alliance meetgs, on the Transgenr Day of Remembrance and every legal challenge ma to anti-LGBTQ laws, which, like Lawrence and Garner, other Amerins make the choice to step to the spotlight wh the hope that their voic will make a difference, wh the dream that they'll be the on to change the urse of history. (Johannburg) – Arbrary arrts and tentn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Ghana, and a proposed dranian anti-LGBT bill are g ser enomic hardship and psychologil strs for LGBT people, Human Rights Watch said today. Introduce legislative and policy measur to prevent, punish, and provi effective remedi for vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people on the basis of their real or imputed sexual orientatn and genr inty and ensure their nstutnal rights to equaly and non-discrimatn.
LOUISIANA SHERIFF US UNNSTUTNAL LAW TO ARRT GAY MEN
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Take necsary steps to protect lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people agast all forms of discrimatn, timidatn, and vlence, and amend sectn 104 of the Crimal Offenc Act, 1960, to ensure that sexual relatns between nsentg adults of the same sex are not nsired a mismeanour or punishable by law. Provi more fancial and technil support to civil society anizatns providg servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who have suffered vlence, cludg domtic vlence, and discrimatn on the basis of their sexual orientatn and genr inty.
LOUISIANA POLICE STG TARGETS, ARRTS GAY MEN FOR SEX USG UNNSTUTNAL ANTI-SODOMY LAW
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ANTI-GAY HATE CRIME ARREST A man reported to have ed a guar to attack a man sleepg a downtown Berkeley tent enmpment while makg “disparagg ments toward people of the LGBTQ muny” has been charged wh asslt and crimal threats, which are both feloni, as well as a hate crime, acrdg to police and urt rerds. M., police said 31-year-old Matthew Harris (no addrs) attacked a 51-year-old man asleep at an enmpment near Shattuck Avenue and Blake Street: “Usg the man’s nearby guar, the spect repeatedly stck the man the face, ” and also kicked and punched him while makg homophobic ments, acrdg to BPD.
(Beit) – Egyptian police and Natnal Secury Agency officers arbrarily arrt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and ta them human ndns, systematilly subject them to ill-treatment cludg torture, and often ce fellow mat to abe them, Human Rights Watch said today. Human rights groups have documented wi-sle ab the wake of a September 2017 ncert by the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger is openly gay and which performs songs that support sexual and genr diversy. The Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office stg was revealed on Saturday by the Baton Rouge Advote, which vtigated the arrts of at least a dozen Louisiana gay men sce 2011 who agreed to nsensual gay sex wh unrver officers.
In fact, two years ago a Michigan sheriff’s office was revealed to be executg siar stgs agast gay men the on July 29 at 2:45pm ET: The East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s office has released a statement wh an apology which note, "While sectns of La. Based on Human Rights Watch’s monorg and discsns wh Cameroonian nonernmental anizatns, the recent acunts of abe documented here seem to be part of an overall uptick police actn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Cameroon.
INDONIA’S CRACKDOWN ON GAY MEN MOV FROM BARS INTO THE HOME
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· The jtice mister should make absolutely clear, particular to all law enforcement, prosecutg and judicial thori, that Cameroonian law do not make a crime or offense to be a lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr person, or to drs a way that is perceived as genr nonnformg, and that any official purportg to exercise thory to ta, charge, or prosecute an LGBT person on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr nonnformy, or threateng to do so, is actg whout a lawful basis and shall be held to acunt for abe of power.
Handoko’s fay that he had been sentenced absentia to two years and three months prison, nvicted of vlatg Indonia’s antipornography law, which clus a ban on striptease Indonia, the world’s largt Mlim-majory untry, homosexualy has generally been tolerated, if margalized.
ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG, A GAY EGYPTIAN TAK HER LIFE
But that began to change last year, when the thori, unr prsure om right-wg Islamic groups, started arrtg gay men what experts say are unprecented numbers, raidg not jt bars and snas but hotel rooms and private crackdown began November 2016, when the police broke up a party South Jakarta and taed 13 men. ”Historilly, gay and transgenr Indonians have been accepted — if poorly unrstood — as long as they married people of the oppose sex and had children, said Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist at the Universy of California, Irve, and thor of “The Gay Archipelago: Sexualy and Natn Indonia. Later, the broadstg regulator banned the pictn of gay characters or effemate men on fense mister likened homosexualy to nuclear war: While a bomb blast over Jakarta would at least be ntaed, he said, tolerance for gays uld spread dangeroly throughout the untry.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
Cizens late last year, but to ltle avail; the wave of raids began the next week, a nservative group’s petn to ban all sex outsi marriage, which would have effectively crimalized homosexualy, was narrowly rejected by Indonia’s Constutnal Boellstorff said the current crackdown on gay men had no precent. On the way, cryptic msag of support began arrivg om distant home she found her mother, a vout Christian, tears — not jt bee her son had been arrted, but bee he was Indonians have stggled to put the news about the raids to ntext, bee there are few posive exampl of gay men the popular media, Mr. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCharged wh “cg bchery, ” Sarah Hegazi was jailed and Schwghammer/Picture Alliance, via Getty ImagCAIRO — When the openly gay ontman of a hugely popular Lebane pop group sttted onto the stage of a Cairo summer ftival 2017, rabow flags lifted the air, and somethg sparked si Sarah a lbian a untry where homosexualy is taboo, and gay people are routely persecuted by the thori, here was a glimmer of eedom.
She had shed the head-verg veil that she had once worn, and had begun to embrace her inty as a gay the ncert she felt liberated, she told the German broadster Dtsche Welle, bee “I was clarg myself a society that hat all that is different om the norm. Outsi, the harsht crackdown years agast Egypt’s gay muny was least 75 people were charged wh bchery raids nducted the days after the ncert, said Lobna Darwish, a genr rights rearcher at the Cairo-based Egyptian Iniative for Personal Rights. ”There was a rare moment of optimism for Egypt’s gay and transgenr muni last month when Hisham Salim, a famo actor, revealed that his 26-year-old dghter had transned to bee a son, days later, father and son were terviewed on televisn together, discsg their hardship but also sharg lghs and affectnate gtur.
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Selim, groundbreakg terview was hailed as a watershed moment for transgenr Egyptians, stokg hop of greater acceptance a society where they often suffer vilent the police ntued wh a crackdown on gay people, even durg the ronavis lockdown.
Activists have lamented a rise attacks and abe this relatnships are illegal Ghana, yet while prosecutns are rare, rights groups say has led to wispread targetg and extortn of vulnerable people and anyone spected to be gay or queer.
RSIA THREATENS TO ARRT GAY MEN FATHERG CHILDREN VIA SURROGACY
It’s already a vulnerable suatn for LGBTQ+ people Ghana, ” he add that he received ath threats when a muny space providg help for gay and queer people, which had opened January, was shut down March followg an outcry om policians, nservative and relig March, the actor Idris Elba, the Vogue magaze edor--chief, Edward Ennful, the mol Naomi Campbell and the UK Labour MP Diane Abbott led a list of proment figur signg an open letter nmng the closure and support of Ghana’s LGBTQ+ muny. He plead not guilty to the charge a virtual urt hearg Thursday and was released om jail a few hours ex-partner’s petn for a protective orr om Gay, approved by Judge Keven O’Grady on Friday, offers the first public tails about what allegedly happened si her apartment before Gay’s ’s fense attorney Ryan Gie nied the allegatns ma the petn but cled to ment further on the se.