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Kelly Schneider says he doesn't deserve forgiveness for killing Steven Nelson Kelly Schneider sat in an Idaho courtroom on Monday (10 April) with his head bowed and for more than an hour listened as the family of Steven Nelson spoke about the man Schneider killed. When they were through, a judge sentenced Schneider to 28 years to life in prison. It as nearly a year ago that Schneider used an online ad offering sex for payment to lure the gay man to...

Three gay men were forced to be prostitutes and porn stars – having sex around the clock and performing on webcam Two Hungarians will spend 30 years in prison each for running a gay sex slave ring in Miami. Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki were convicted of human trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering in a Miami-Dade court. It was found they had kept three Hungarian gay men in their early 20s enslaved as prostitutes, forcing them to have sex with clients and each...

A jail sentence has been upheld for a man who beat up and robbed a gay man in a park in Nottingham. Andrew Mark Perry was last November jailed for nine years for the attack. A jury convicted him of unlawful wounding and robbery. The 43-year-old was one of two masked men who attacked their victim in the Broxtowe park back in November 2015, as he tried to meet a man he had come in contact with using Grindr. London’s Appeal Court on...

George Klippert was given a life sentence simply for being gay. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends to posthumously pardon a man who was jailed simply for being gay in the 1960s. George Klippert was the last man in Canada to be convicted of homosexuality before it was legalised in 1969. The mechanic served a four-year sentence for 18 counts of ‘gross indecency’ in Calgary in 1965. He was deemed a ‘dangerous sex offender’ and was sentenced to preventive detention on the grounds...