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Friday night in Portland, Texas there will be a candlelight vigil for the two teen lesbians found shot in a local park. In San Francisco, a vigil will be held tonight in Harvey Milk Plaza at 7pm. In Washington DC, meet 6pm Friday night at Dupont Circle. Local police say there’s no evidence of a hate crime so far. There …

One of them has died. MSNBC reports: Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park, with one of them dying from her injuries, media reports say. Police were searching for their assailants. Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in a nature …

George Zimmerman’s wife was arrested today and charged with perjury for collaborating with her husband to shield the couple’s finances from the court. According to an affidavit, Shellie Zimmerman transferred more than $74,000 to her personal account days before the bond hearing. Taped phone calls between the couple revealed that they had discussed the money transfers in code to hide …

North Carolina religious cult leader Peter Moses has pleaded guilty to murdering a four year-old boy that Moses said had been “acting gay.” Moses also killed a female cult member for being unable to bear his children. Authorities have said Moses led a religious group of women and children who called him “Lord” and feared him. They lived together in …

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects today issued a report containing the grim news that last year more LGBT people were murdered in hate crimes than in any year since the group began keeping records. The 2011 report also highlights a number of disturbing trends concerning the severity of violence experienced by LGBTQH people. This year’s report shows that LGBTQH …

“Mothers were given the talent to bear children. That talent doesn’t belong to men. When a man says he wants to get married to another man, we in Zimbabwe don’t accept it. We can’t talk of women’s rights at all if we go in that direction. It will lead to extinction. Our customs look down on women as inferior. Men …

In what may have been a hate crime, a Bay Area transgender woman was shot to death in her car last weekend in Oakland. Brandy Martell, 37, had worked for a local transgender services organization. Another transgender woman and friend of Martell’s—who wants to keep her identity private—was in the back seat of the car. According to this witness, she, …

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Last night hundreds gathered for a vigil outside the Halifax gay bar near the spot where renowned activist Raymond Taavel was beaten to death in what appears to have been a homophobic hate crime. Witnesses reportedly told police they saw a man yelling “faggot” before getting into an altercation with two smaller men, one of whom fled. Police and emergency …

Halifax police have a suspect in custody in the murder of well-known gay activist Raymond Taavel, who was found beaten to death outside a gay bar early this morning. Officers were called to the 2000-block of Gottingen Street at about 2:40 a.m. where they found a 49-year-old man bleeding. He later died in the street. Police have made an arrest …

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in Washington to launch a national campaign to repeal the “Stand Your Ground” laws which the National Rifle Association has paid to implement in dozens of states. The campaign will be very challenging. The National Rifle Association, which supported” the “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida, is one of the most powerful and …

UPDATE: Zimmerman is in police custody.

In what may be their single-most outrageous and repulsive move yet, NOM is attempting to whip up anti-gay fervor by expanding their Starbucks boycott into nations that may put homosexuals to death or have other legal punishments for merely being gay. Brian Brown exults: In our first week, we gained 25,000 pledge signers in the U.S. alone; today we go …

The Daily Beast reports on the surging number of anti-gay murders in Brazil: Though the overall crime rate is down sharply in major cities, murders of gays and lesbians are on the rise. It’s especially acute in the most populous areas: Bahia, Minas Gerais, and the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo—precisely where police have made their biggest …

“Temporarily” he says. By a one vote margin, yesterday the Sanford City Council voted “no confidence” in their chief of police.

A 19 year-old Mississippi man has pleaded guilty and received two life sentences for targeting a random black man for abuse and killing him with his pickup truck. It was later learned that the victim was gay and in a 17 year relationship. Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, Miss., apologized to the family of 49-year-old James Craig Anderson. While partying …

The two young men suspected of murdering gay Manhattan resident John Laubach were arraigned in a New York City court yesterday after being apprehended in Florida. Edwin Faulkner, 30, and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera, 30, appeared before a Manhattan Criminal Court judge Sunday to face a single count each of second-degree murder in the death of John Laubach, 57 on March …