Burney Crenshaw wanted for beating of gay Achille OK Mayor
Burney Crenshaw who has a history of threatening an Achille 7-year-old transgender student made good on those threats yesterday, viciously attacking David Northcutt, the out gay mayor of Achille OK. Updates: The FBI is investigating the assault as a hate crime. More at kxii.com Mayor Northcutt suspended the entire police force. Achille Board of Trustees […]
Baptist Pastor arrested for the murder of transgender woman Keanna Mattel
Sterling Heights Baptist pastor Albert Weathers, 46, was arraigned Monday for the murder of Detroit transgender activist Keanna Mattel. The murder which had previously thought to be the result of a robbery gone bad might, in fact, be a hate crime. Albert Weathers, pastor of The New Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church and more recently Logos Baptist Church […]
Philly transgender group home firebombed in hate crime attack
Police video shows a man throwing an explosive firebomb at the transgender group home. Police are investigating this a ‘possible hate crime’ noting that the home was attacked last year. The video shows two men walking past the transgender home at least once before throwing the bomb at it. It happened on the 5000 block […]
Transgender college student Deejea Smith attacked twice in two weeks
De Anza College student Deejea Smith is speaking out after being attacked for the second time in two weeks on the Cupertino campus. The student is transgender and police are calling the incident a hate crime. Deejea Smith described coming face to face with an attacker in the Flint Center Garage. Smith recalled, “The second […]
Two NYC Trans Women Assaulted, Man Charged With Hate Crime
Patrick O’Meara, 38, yelled anti-trans slurs at two transgender women as they entered the McDonald’s at 82nd St. near Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday. He called the women “b–ches” and “f-ggots” and attacked them, pushing one woman to the ground and punching and kicking her, police said. He briefly […]
Transgender woman dragged from home and beaten
Five men dragged a transgender woman from her mother’s home Dec 27th and recorded themselves beating her. The cowardly attack which occurred in the town of Wanderlândia, Tocantins, Brazil over an alleged theft of a cell phone wasn’t reported to police until the 29th. The victim’s mother, Maria de Lourdes da Silva, told Gay […]
Police want these men for Brooklyn transgender attack
NYPD want these three men for questioning about their role in a Brooklyn transgender attack on May 13th. Police posted these images taken from closed-circuit TV of the three men who allegedly beat a transgender woman in Brooklyn last week in what they are calling a bias assault. The 32-year-old victim was heading north on […]
Centre For Hate Studies Launches New Animation
The Leicester based Centre For Hate Studies has launched a new animated short to try and highlight the effect of people who suffer verbal abuse, harassment and physical attacks because of who they are. The animation takes the time to look at someone who is transgender, gay, disabled and of an ethnic minority. Real people […]
Two Transgender Women Stoned in The Streets in Germany
Two transgender women stoned whilst walking in the street in Dortmund, Germany, simply for being trans. The two victims, only identified as Elisa, 37, and Yasmine, 50, told police how three teenagers grabbed their hair and breasts and attacked them. ‘Within seconds, they were pushing us around. It was only then that I realised what […]
Trial for the murder of beloved trans activist Diana Sacayán to proceed
Femicide charges were confirmed allowing the trial to proceed for the murder of trans woman Diana Sacayán. Argentina femicide criminal code allows no mitigating factors to be introduced when the crime is perpetrated someone who had an intimate relationship with the victim. The Constitutional Court agreed with the judge Gustavo Pierreti, who said Gabriel David Marino and Félix […]
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