Tagged crime

Transgender-Targeted Hate Crimes up by a Third in England and Wales

Anti-transgender hate crime reports have jumped almost a third in one year in England and Wales. There were 1,651 reports of anti-trans hate crimes in 2018, up from 1,248 in 2017. This is a 32.1 percent incr...

Oklahoma Man Arrested for Using LGBTQ Dating App to Lure and Rob Victims

31-year-old Oklahoma man Deaunte McPherson was arrested on September 16 after police found him to be involved in kidnapping and robbing several men by luring them through the gay dating app Grindr, reported New...

Two Gay Men Reportedly Attacked, Beaten in Possible D.C. Hate Crime

In Washington D.C. on September 19, two gay men were reportedly attacked and beaten by five unknown suspects less than two blocks from the Third District D.C. Police Station, according to the Washington Blade. ...

Suspect in California Murder Allegedly “Pranked” Others on Grindr

A California man, Samuel Woodward, 21, was arrested on suspicion of killing a gay man, Blaze Bernstein, 19. Woodward is standing trial in Orange County Superior Court. Now, the media is reporting that Woodwa...

Dejanay Stanton, a transgender woman, killed in Chicago

Dejanay Stanton, a 24 year old transgender woman, was killed on August 30. She was not the only trans person murdered that day. Last Thursday, Stanton was found dead in an alley in Chicago, Illinois. Her dea...