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As the days and hours go by after the tragic shooting in Las Vegas, victims and families of victims are trying to find out if those at the shooting escaped, are wounded, or worse. As names have started to arise, two gay people (and a couple to boot) have been added to the list of victims. Cameron Robinson and Bobby Eardley were a gay couple from Utah. More specifically, Robinson was from Cedar City. Robinson would reportedly drive the two and...

A victim of Azerbaijan’s reported anti-gay crackdown has come forward to describe the horrendous actions that were used against him. The man – who has only been identified as Xeyal for his own security – was caught up as one of dozens of LGBT+ people detained by authorities in Azerbaijan’s capital city, Baku, last month. The victim claimed that he was detained for nine days and enduring beatings, electrics shocks and other forms of torture before he was finally released. “We were...

The teens have all been given a six-month prison sentence for attack on a gay couple Three UK teenagers were jailed today after pleading guilty to attacking two train passengers because of their sexuality. Two of the male teens were aged 16 and the other aged 17. They attacked Phil Poole and Zbynek Zatloukal while they were heading home from a night out in Reading. One of the 16-year olds walked through the carriage after the three boarded the train and spotted Poole...

"Whether it’s an increase in reporting, an increase in violence, or some combination thereof, it should be a wake-up call." We’ve still got more than a third of the year left, but a new report revels that more LGBT Americans have been killed so far in 2017 than in all of 2016. According to National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, there have been 33 homicides so far linked to the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity. That works out to more than...

The singer has also suspended her tour in the wake of the attack. Ariana Grande has reportedly reached out to the victims of Monday night’s bombing outside of her concert in Manchester and offered to pay for their funerals, according to the Daily Record. It was also confirmed by TMZ that the star, who tweeted she was “broken” after the attacks, has suspended the European leg of her Dangerous Woman World Tour for at least two weeks. Grande’s shows in...

As word spread online of the terrorist attack Monday night at the Manchester, UK concert where Ariana Grande had just performed, Twitter lit up with emotional tweets from around the world, including dozens of celebrities, from Cher to Ellen to Katy Perry and many, many more. https://twitter.com/cher/status/866794101835841536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/866826292217303041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/ddlovato/status/866792822078406656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/866824457050099712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/Pink/status/866810680627691520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/866822681064341505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/866788728651513857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/BoyGeorge/status/866811335123681280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/lorde/status/866822912673628162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/866819201888944133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/ShawnMendes/status/866823030248538112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/kylieminogue/status/866818571245977604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/halsey/status/866797453651136513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/866809443543076865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/JohnStamos/status/866810695614181376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/866810216259751937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/questlove/status/866797195638575105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F Source

An investigation is underway to decide whether or not to charge him with a federal hate crime. The Atlanta truck driver who poured boiling water over a sleeping gay couple in February has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. According to the Associated Press, a jury found 48-year-old Martin Blackwell guilty of eight counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault. The assaulter couldn’t be charged with a hate crime because Georgia is one of five states...

A man has come forward after a gay couple was beaten viciously on board a train near London on Valentine’s Day. The couple, Phil Poole, 35 and his boyfriend Zbynek Zatloukal, 26, had been on a night out in Reading for Valentine’s and were beaten and hospitalised. They say they were subjected to homophobic slurs before being beaten up by a group of around five men on board a train from Reading into London. The British Transport Police since put out an...

27 January marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Its extent of torture is unparalleled in European history; unthinkable by any civilisation. What happened within the barbed gates of Auschwitz remains the deep shame of a now peaceful continent. The Nazi concentration camps were the abattoirs of humanity, making it their business to kill as quickly and mercilessly as possible. Though it may be an impossible episode to comprehend, as the 72nd anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation dawns on 27...

You’ve said their names. Now, remember them. As LGBT people end a tough year, a new video highlights one of the biggest tragedies of 2016 and proves how, even in this community’s darkest hour, we stand strong. Gay Star News has released a video tribute to the heroes and victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were killed and 53 more were injured during the U.S.’s worst mass shooting ever. The video compiles heartbreaking news coverage, including...

Another shooting occurred at a gay bar, this time in Albany, New York. It does not look like a hate crime or a hit on the gay community in general at this time. ALBANY, NY (NEWS10) – There was a call of shots fired early Thursday morning around 2am at The Rocks Bar on 77 Central Avenue in Albany. When officers arrived, they learned that four people had sustained gunshot wounds while inside the bar. One of the male victims died as...

Survivors of the Orlando shooting have shared an emotional thank you to supporters. The assault, which took place at LGBT nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida on 12 June, has been described as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, leaving 49 people dead and another 53 injured. Shortly after the incident, a fundraiser was set up via GoFundMe to allow people to donate money to help victims and their families with medical bills and funeral costs among other things – it raised over $9.5 million. Ricardo Negron, a...

Sia has released a surprise video tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in modern US history. Sia’s distinctive solo dancer Maddie Ziegler was joined by 49 other young dancers in the new video to commemorate the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in June. Matt Moseley, one of the dancers featured in the video, confirmed the video to new song The Greatest, was indeed about the tragic attack on his Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BKAI8VABWlS/ The video begins with the...

The internet has rallied around a gay couple who had their holiday ruined by a vile anti-gay attack. Vestal and his husband Tristan, from London, were attacked while on a night out while on the Greek island of Mykonos. The pair were just two days into their holiday when the attack took place, while they were leaving a well-known local gay hotspot. The couple were hit on the head from behind and punched and kicked as they lay unconscious on the ground....