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Bodies found across the Gauteng metro between July and September, amid fears of a serial killer. The Forum for the Empowerment of Women, which has documented violence against Black lesbian and queer women for two decades, says these killings cannot be read as isolated crimes.
The first national data from the Violence Experiences Survey, run by Tulane's Newcomb Institute with UC San Diego. The trans figures are the highest in the study — and the researchers argue the answer is prevention and community support, not policing.
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano pleaded guilty and were sentenced last week in Ontario County, New York. Sam Nordquist was 24, a trans man from Oakdale, Minnesota, and his family has spent nineteen months insisting he be remembered for who he was.
Caribe Afirmativo documented 270 LGBTIQ+ murders in Colombia last year, up 64% from 2024. The report lands one month into a presidency that rights groups say is openly hostile to the community.
The killing of a well-known young gay man in Cameroon's largest city has renewed alarm over the safety of LGBTQ+ people in a country where community leadership is already stretched thin.
Weeks after a gay man was beaten to death on Plovdiv's Youth Hill, police and security services detained 18 people linked to an alleged cell of the international neo-Nazi group Blood & Honour — as protesters demand tougher penalties for juvenile offenders.
Prosecutors say a 17-year-old used a fake dating profile to lure Georgi Kuzev, 31, to a park where a group of teens beat him to death. Bulgarian authorities are investigating a hate crime motive.
A presidential regulation grouping the 'promotion of LGBTQ culture' with nonmilitary threats like terrorism has given cover to a wave of campus policies and street violence, Human Rights Watch and local advocates say.
Latin America holds one of the great paradoxes in global queer life: some of the world's most advanced legal protections sitting alongside some of its deadliest violence. Here's how both stay true at once in 2026.
One LGBTQ+ Colombian killed every 32 hours in 2025. A Kenyan rights group documents systematic police violence. Sixty-four countries still criminalize same-sex relations. As IDAHOBIT lands Sunday, the global picture is harder than the headlines.
