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Human rights activists have questioned the speed in which the man was executed Iran has publicly hanged a man on charges of homosexuality. The unidentified man, 31, was executed after he was found guilty of raping two males, as well as kidnapping charges. He was hanged in the southwestern city of Kazeroon on 10 January. The state-controlled ISNA has claimed the 31-year-old kidnapped two 15-year-old males. The man then raped the two boys. Iran charged the man with laws covering homosexuality, not pedophilia. Iran’s homosexuality laws Under...

A 23-year-old has been found guilty of killing a genderfluid teenager in a brutal, premeditated attack. Jorge “Lumni” Sanders-Galvez kidnapped, suffocated and murdered 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson after he and his cousin discovered that the teenager was non-binary. He will be sentenced next month, but faces mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. His cousin, Jaron Purham, is in the process of being tried separately for the same crime of first-degree murder. Kedarie, who did not identify as trans, enjoyed dressing in...

More than 60 members of Egypt’s Parliament have supported a “deeply discriminatory” law that will criminalise same-sex sexual activity. It’s believed 75 people have been arrested in the crackdown so far against LGBT+ citizens, and the proposed jail sentences are terrifying. If passed, the law could see those convicted of pro-LGBT+ activity sentenced to up to 15 years in prison, with authorities given the ability to to publicly shame those found guilty by publishing their names and sentences in national newspapers. A...

His unnamed lover then wiped his genitals with the tenant's wedding dress A couple caught their gay landlord having sex with another man on their bed while they were out last December. The landlord, 39-year-old Carlos Quijada-Lara, pleaded guilty after shocking footage captured him in the act. Logan Pierce and Mikaela DiGiulio set up cameras in their $1100-a-month Colorado apartment According to the police, the couple’s Nest system – made up of four motion detection cameras – caught all the action. Because it serves...

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...

Sean Cody model faces life in prison A gay-for-pay porn star was found guilty for brutally stabbing his wealthy lover to death. Mario Romo, who started his career at Sean Cody as ‘Francisco’ in 2010, was charged with the death of Texas retiree Jake Clyde Merendino in 2015. The 52-year-old had named the then-25-year-old Romo – legal name David Enrique Meza – as his heir before the killing. A San Diego jury found Meza guilty of murder, and of conspiring to obstruct justice...