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In the wake of the tragic shooting yesterday in Texas, Gays Against Guns stormed Washington D.C. this morning and staged a "Die-In" at the Hart Senate Office building. This is the first time the group has done a demonstration like this on the capitol. So far, eight people have been arrested for the demonstration. Michael Adolph of the Washington D.C. Chapter said, "GAG believes that the time has come to not only start talking about gun reforms but to start...

Indonesian police detained over 50 men in a raid on what has been described as a “gay spa” in Jakarta. Friday night found police holding 51 males and 7 employees. They will be charged under pornography and prostitution laws and some could face up to six years in prison. Four Chinese nationals, a Singaporean, one Thai National, one Malaysian, and one Dutchman, were also presnt, but none of the foreigners would be charged. The arrests are the latest in a...

Community leaders issue emergency safety tips, warning LGBTI Egyptians to delete profiles and deny everything if arrested Egyptian LGBTI activists are urging people to delete dating apps as police carry out a spate of arrests. They say 13 people were arrested in just 24 hours as the police round-up suspected LGBTIs. It’s all a response to a rock concert on Saturday where gig-goers flew rainbow flags. The concert was by popular band Mashrou’ Leila, which has an openly gay lead singer. Politicians and...

Rock band Mashrou’ Laila has openly gay lead vocalist but LGBTI flag incident has sparked a crackdown Egypt has arrested seven people, accused of flying LGBTI rainbow flags at a rock concert in Cairo. Public prosecutors are now examining the evidence. But if found guilty, the seven men could face two years in jail. Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila performed in Cairo on Saturday (22 September). The lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay and an LGBTI advocate. After the gig, LGBTI...

'If hell exists, I am sure it's in this place' A young, Instagram celebrity was arrested and thrown in Kuwaiti jail for two weeks, where he was allegedly abused and propositioned with sex to get out of jail. His crime was to have a ‘feminine face’. King Luxy* was visting the Persian Gulf country when he was arrested at the Kuwait Avenue Mall. The 19-year-old was supposed to be in Kuwait for a night before jetting off to Dubai. The Polish national...

Over the weekend more than 40 Nigerian men were arrested for performing homosexual acts, police say. The men were at a hotel in Lagos State for an event to raise awareness about HIV testing. The hotel was cordoned off during the investigation. In Nigeria, homosexual acts are punishable by up to 14 years in prison, with gay marriage and displays of same-sex attraction also banned. While most countries are starting to have more open views about homosexuality, Nigeria isn’t one....

A man suspected of setting fire to an LGBT+ centre in the US has been arrested. On 12 July, the one.n.ten centre in Pheonix, Arizona was doused in liquid and set ablaze by a man believed to be 26-year-old Darren Beach Jr. No one was harmed in the attack, but essential resources including electronic equipment, food, personal hygiene products and camping equipment were lost in the fire. The one.n.ten centre is a safe haven that serves LGBT+ youth and young adults aged...

'I'm going to walk in with a f**king machete and slaughter every single one of the gay bastards' Police arrested a teenager after he threatened to go into a British pub with a machete and kill gay people at a Pride event. The teenager, who cannot be named, posted a photo of the machete he bought for £19.99 ($25.40 €22.70), as well as his intentions to use it at the New Empire pub in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria on Friday night...

Police in Indonesia have arrested 141 men for attending what the authorities have called a “gay sex party”. The arrests took place in the capital city of Jakarta on Sunday (May 21). It marks the latest in a string of mass arrests in Indonesia, where the LGBT community appears to be coming under increasing pressure and persecution from the authorities. Nationally, Indonesian law does not explicitly prohibit private, non-commercial homosexual relations between consenting adults. In Aceh Province Islamic-based by-laws have been passed as...

Guy Hedger was fatally wounded during a burglary over the weekend. A man was shot dead in front of his partner after at least two burglars broke into their home in southern England. Guy Hedger, a 61-year-old marketing executive, was fatally injured in the early hours of Sunday morning at the couple’s home in Dorset in what is believed to have been a planned burglary. Simon-Pierre Hedger-Cooper, 48, is being supported by family, friends and police in the traumatizing aftermath of his...

Eight men have been arrested for holding a “gay party” in Indonesia. The two alleged organisers of last night’s event in Surabaya, the second biggest city in Indonesia, could face up to 15 years in prison. Six other attendees have had charges filed against them under the country’s strict anti-pornography law, according to Agence France-Presse. Shinto Silitonga, the local police’s head of detectives, said there were 14 men in two hotel rooms watching gay porn and performing “deviant sexual acts”. “This is the...

Aceh's Sharia Law could lead to discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBTI people in the province Two men were arrested in the Indonesian province of Aceh under the accusation they were gay and in a relationship. Neighbours reported the two students who said they had been acting ‘lovey-dovey’ for about three months. Police raided a rental home last week and alleged they caught the men while they were having sex. The police also said they found condoms in the home which proved the...

The explicit pictures were then published in a local newspaper. Authorities allegedly forced two men to pose naked for photos earlier this week before arresting them for having sex in a Ghana hotel room. A hotel employee burst into the room and eventually called the police after growing suspicious of the 28-year-old man and his 18-year-old lover, according to Ghana media outlets. The men were then ordered to pose naked together and even forced to simulate sex for some of the photos,...

The 400-pound former owner of Escuelita, a legendary Latin gay nightclub in midtown that closed last February, was killed by 23-year-old Daquan King, a masseur who engaged in “weird” consensual sex with 54-year-old Savyon Zabar (right). According to police, King confessed to the January 3rd killing on Friday. The New York Post reports he’d been considered the prime suspect before coming forward. On the morning of January 4, his two roommates walked into their West 81st Street apartment and found Zabar...