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Source: The Independent Ahmet Yildiz photo via The Independent Ahmet Yildiz, 26, was buried Saturday. London's The Independent reports that Yildiz's friends believe he was the victim of the country's first gay honor killing. Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a physics student who represented his country...

Source: The Local Stockholm -- A 35-year-old man thought to be a serial murderer was indicted on Tuesday, suspected of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and theft. All of the suspect’s victims were gay men, reports The Local , an English-language Swedish news site. The man, whose name cannot...

Source: AP via International Herald Tribune and PinkNews ZAGREB, Croatia : A 25-year-old man has become the first person in Croatia to be convicted of a hate crime and was jailed for 14 months for trying to attack a gay parade with gasoline bombs, a court said Tuesday. Josip Situm was convicted Monday...

Source: BBC News and Glasgow Evening Times HATE crime laws in Scotland are to be strengthened to include people targeted because of disabilities or their sexual orientation. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced today the Scottish Government would back a Bill proposed by Glasgow Green MSP Patrick...

Source: Radio Netherlands People with guts go against the flow, defy accepted notions and conventions. Radio Netherlands Worldwide presents a series of portraits of people who this year proved they had guts. One of these people is Franklin Hill, a black man who also happens to be homosexual. He was threatened...