“Notorious for their gruesome methods of killing, the Islamic State group reserves one of its most brutal for suspected homosexuals. Videos it has released show masked militants dangling men over the precipices of buildings by their legs to drop them head-first or tossing them over the edge. At least 36 men in Syria and Iraq…
“Terror Monitor, a terrorism watchdog group, has posted a set of horrific photos depicting two allegedly gay men being stoned to death in Aleppo, Syria. This is just the latest in a series of killings enacted under the ISIS regime, who have called LGBTQ people the “worst of creatures.” The attack follows a similar attack in August, in…
“A few months ago, gay Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas feared for his life. This week, he made history with a UN address about the vicious persecution of LGBTs under ISIS. It was only two months ago, when his plane took off from Turkey to take him to his new life in the United States, that…
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Source: The Daily Beast The attacks, which also include the stoning of an adulterer, appear to have taken place in Mosul and were distributed by ISIS social media accounts. These are obscene images. They depict two men thrown from the roof of a building as a crowd watches them fall to their deaths, and they…
Source: BuzzFeed A decree Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed on Dec. 29 appears to ban transgender people from driving cars, along with others diagnosed with a long list of “disorders of sexual preference.” The provision is part of a broad document outlining the medical conditions that disqualify people from driving. Most of these are…
Source: The Huffington Post | Reuters. By Gayatri Suroyo and Charlotte Greenfield BANDA ACEH, Indonesia/JAKARTA, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Overwhelmed by fear, members of the main gay rights group in the Indonesian town of Banda Aceh started burning piles of documents outside their headquarters in late October, worried that the sharia police would raid them at any…
