Day: April 26, 2016

Leonard Nattrass-Berquist and Beauen Wallace-Loretz have been found guilty of the murder of Ihaia Gillman Harris.  The two men who were under eighteen at the time of the murder pleaded not guilty and claimed self defence in the case which saw them attack Gillman Harris in at Ascot Epsom Motel in December 2014. During court proceedings, the two […]

Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. On top of being the first editor of a GLBT magazine in the sexually conservative country, Mannan was also a top gay rights activist and worked at the US development agency USAid. He launched Roopbaan in 2014 in an […]

North Carolina Democrats have filed a bill with aims to reverse the state’s anti-GLBT law, HB2. This follows a string of boycotts and lost investment ventures in the state in response to Governor McCrory refusing to veto the damaging bill which encourages discrimination against GLBT people. House Bill 946, sponsored by Darren Jackson, Graig Meyer, Susi Hamilton, and […]