Tag: hate crimes
Hateful teens’ cell phones exposed them spraying antigay graffiti at their school
The Washington Post recently explained how four white teens Glenelg, Maryland got busted for spray-painting racist, anti-Semitic and antigay graffiti as a senior “prank.” They got busted by their own cell phones.
While the vandalism happened on May 24, 2018, The Washington Post is just now revealing details behind the actual hate crime which was committed by four graduating seniors: Seth Taylor, Matt Lipp, Josh Shaffer and Tyler Curtiss
The day before graduation, the teens spray-painted swastikas, penises, “KKK,” “F*ck,” “Jews,”...
South Africa Held Its Annual Soweto Gay Pride March In Spite of Increasing Hate...
200 people gathered to participate in Soweto Pride in South Africa.
The Pride parade marched through sections like Meadowlands and Dobsonville in Soweto before eventually settling at Dorothy Nyembe Park, a subsection of Johannesburg in the country of South Africa, to protest the increasing hate crimes against LGBTQ people.
Going along with that goal, the theme of this year’s march was “Reclaiming Our Right To Organize.”
The reason for that theme was not only because of the increase in crimes targeting gay...
Two thirds of LGBT people have suffered a hate crime
Nearly two thirds of LGBTI people in Scotland say they have suffered a hate crime – but the vast majority did not report it to the police.
That’s the initial findings of a survey conducted by Scotland’s Equality Network, coinciding with a report from the Scottish Government’s Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion.
According to the Equality Network, interim results show that 63% of LGBTI people have been the target of a hate crime, the majority of which happened...
