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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Befriends Anti-Gay Murdering Chechnya Leader Ramzan Kadyrov – Video

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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Befriends Anti-Gay Murdering Chechnya Leader Ramzan Kadyrov - Video

 

Via TMZ:

Floyd Mayweather has a new member of The Money Team — Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov … an alleged violent warlord who unapologetically hates gay people.

Floyd met up with Kadyrov during a recent trip to Chechnya — buddying up with Kadyrov and urging his fans to follow Ramzan on Instagram.

Ramzan is responsible for the horrible anti-gay purge in Chechnya that has led to hundreds of gay men being held in detention, being  tortured, and executions his country.

When HBO’s Real Sports recently went to Chechnya to report on the country’s  Mixed Martial Arts program this is Kadyrov replied when asked about the “gay purge”: 

“This is nonsense. We don’t have those kinds of people here. We don’t have any gays. If there are any take them to Canada. Praise be to God. Take them far from us so we don’t have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here take them.

“They are devils. They are for sale. They are not people. God damn them for what they are accusing us of. They will have to answer to the Almighty for this.”

In June the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence and persecution against gay men in Chechnya, On October 30, 2017 the U.S. Senate followed suit.

S. Res. 211 “calls on Chechen officials to immediately cease the abduction, detention, and torture of individuals on the basis of their actual or suspected sexual orientation, and hold accountable all those involved in perpetrating such abuses.” It also calls on the U.S. government to “continue to condemn the violence and persecution in Chechnya.”

 The Canadian federal government has been secretly spiriting gay Chechen men from Russia to Canada, under a clandestine program.  About a third of those who were being sheltered in Russian safe houses – are now in Toronto and other Canadian cities

Sources estimate that Chechen authorities have rounded up and detained, tortured and in some cases have murdered  hundreds of gay men in secret prisons including the recent revelation that Russian pop-singer  Zelimkhan Bakaev was arrested, tortured and then murdered for being gay. 

His body at the writing of this post  has still not been found.

 

 

 

 

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United States Votes ‘No’ on UN Resolution Condemning Death Penalty for Homosexuality

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The United States was one of just 13 countries to vote against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having gay sex. 

Although the vote passed, America joined countries such as China, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in opposing the move.

The US also supported two failed amendments put forward by Russia, which stated the death penalty was not necessarily “a human rights violation” and that it is not a form of torture, but can lead to it “in some cases”. And it abstained on a “sovereignty amendment” put forward by Saudi Arabia, that stated “the right of all countries to develop their own laws and penalties”.

Despite the opposition, the vote in Geneva passed with 27 of the 47-member Human Rights Council in favor. 

There are currently six countries where the death penalty is used for people in same-sex relationships: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria and Somalia. This number rises to eight if the Isis-occupied territories of Iraq and Syria are included. 

Idaho Man Pleads Guilty To Brutal Murder Of Gay Man, Federal Hate Crime Charges Filed

Idaho Man Pleads Guilty To Brutal Murder Of Gay Man, Federal Hate Crime Charges Filed

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Idaho Man Pleads Guilty To Brutal Murder Of Gay Man, Federal Hate Crime Charges Filed

Kelly Schneider, 23, faces a federal hate crime charge in the April 2016 death of Steven Nelson, who was lured by Schneider, Jayson C. Woods, Daniel A. Henkel and Kevin R. Tracy to a site near Lake Lowell in Idaho with a promise of sex for money.

Schneider, kicked him repeatedly with steel-toed boots, then stripped and robbed him in the pre-dawn darkness near Gott’s Point,leaving him to die prosecutors said.

The critically injured man walked, naked and without shoes, for about a half mile to reach a house and get help. He died several hours later at a hospital but was able to provide Canyon County sheriff’s investigators with detailed information that helped identify his attackers.

In court Monday, Schneider said he intended to rob Nelson but not kill him. He also admitted kicking the man repeatedly and acknowledged that his actions caused the man’s death, said Christ Topmiller, Canyon County’s chief criminal deputy prosecutor.

Schneider pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in state court on Jan. 23. two days later, in district court, Schneider pleaded not guilty to the charge of a hate crime, a federal offense.

Nelson was a Boise State University employee and local actor whose murder provoked outcry from LGBT advocates across the state. It also drew attention to Idaho’s glaring lack of legal protections for LGBT people. In the Gem State, no law prohibits employment, public accommodations or housing discrimination against people based on their gender identity or sexual orientation, nor does its malicious harassment law does cover crimes motivated by victims’ LGBT status.

Schneider faces up to life in prison when sentenced March 20 in 3rd District Court. Prosecutors can recommend a fixed sentence as high as 28 years before parole eligibility, and the defense can ask for as little as 10 years,

#JusticeForSteven

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SFPD Release Video Of Suspect in Castro District Murder of Bryan Higgins aka. Feather Lynn

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Fetahers muderer

*DO YOU KNOW OR HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?
Anyone with information can contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 with “SFPD” at the start of the message.

Last week the body of 31-year-old radical faerie Bryan Higgins aka Feather Lynn was discovered in the Castro District, outside of a church without identification. Feather was attacked which resulted in a brain aneurysm that left him on life support from which he was removed earlier this week.

Now the San Francisco Police Department has  released a video of the murder suspect

The clip, posted on the site The Castro Biscuit, shows an unidentified man in a hoodie and baseball cap harassing Feather

According to the site, the video was taken from a taxi cam, on 10 August, the day the victim was attacked. The blacked out portion is Bryan/Feather.

PLEASE take a look if you live in the San Francisco area and lets try to catch this animal.

 

Murdered Nova Scotia Gay Activist Raymond Taavel Mourned, New Evidence Points To A Hate Crime

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Beloved Nova Scotia gay activist Raymond Taavel was brutally beaten and murdered by a schizophrenic on a unescorted one-hour leave from a psychiatric hospital  earlier this week was honored yesterday hundreds of people turned out for a vigil in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Media outlets who originally reported Raymonds murder as a random crime committed by a psychiatric patient, now report that the murderer Andre Noel Denny used anti-gay slurs during the attack, and authorities are determining the murder’s status might be a  hate crime.

The National Post reports:

According to court documents, Mr. Denny was found not criminally responsible for a “variety of offences” on Sept. 1 and 2, 2009, including uttering threats, causing unnecessary injury to a dog, possession of stolen property (the dog) and breach of probation. Court documents also indicate he has “a long history of schizophrenia, paranoid subtype, coupled with a substance abuse problem.” Police could not confirm reports the suspect yelled gay slurs at Mr. Taavel, but say they are “considering all possibilities” with respect to a motive.

To the man who worked beside Mr. Taavel for 13 years, the activist was a passionate “activist without anger.”

“He had a lovely, joyous presence,” said Barry Boyce, a senior editor who worked with Mr. Taavel at Shambhala Sun magazine in Halifax. “You couldn’t stay mad at him for more than 35 seconds” he told the National Post, his voice shaking. “He was a real sweet guy.”

Rest In Peace Raymond Taavel and thank you for all you did.

NY’s Craigslist Killer Found GUILTY Of The Murder Of Gay CBS Newsman George Weber

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John Katehis, dubbed “The Craigslist Killer” by the New York press (pictured left)  has been found guilty for the murder of CBS newsman George Weber in his second trial.

 Katehis stabbed Miller more than 50 times after Miller allegedly hired him as an “escort” to play out an S&M sex scene off Criagslist  oin 2009.  In the first trial, the jury declared itself deadlocked after defense attorneys painted Weber as a homosexual predator because Katehis was only 16 at the time of the crime even though Katehis claimed he was older to Miller.

 I can’t can’t even begin to imagine the mind of a person who can stab another human 50 times.  

 

Video Report – Religious Cult Leader In North Carolina Kills 4 Year Old Boy For "Homosexual Behavior"

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A horrible story emerges today out of North Carolina.

Religious cult leader Peter Lucas Moses, 27,  faces first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Jadon Higganbothan, 4, and Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, 28.  Prosecutors said Moses killed Jadon because he thought the child was gay and McKoy after he learned she couldn’t have children and wanted to leave the group.

Moses feared that Jadon might be gay because his father had left Sisk, and Moses told her to “get rid” of the child, prosecutors said.  “In the religious belief of that organization, homosexuality was frowned on,”

Sometime in October 2010, Smith told Moses that Jadon had hit another child’s bottom, and Moses became angry and started walking around the house with a gun that belonged to Sisk, prosecutors said.

“He starts screaming, ‘I told you to get rid of him!'” and told Sisk, “‘How am I going to do this?'” Cline recalled the witness’ account.

Moses ordered two of the women to set up computers and speakers in the garage, prosecutors said they were told by the witness. They said he started playing music with the Lord’s Prayer in Hebrew, took Jadon in the garage and shut the door, and the women then heard a gunshot.

Prosecutors said the witness told them that the women helped clean up the body of Jadon, who had been shot in the head, and put it in a suitcase in Moses’ master suite. He later told them to get the body out because it was beginning to smell, prosecutors said.

So horrible, evil and so tragic.  I am at a loss for words.

Transgender Woman Found Murdered In The Streets Of San Juan, Puerto Rico

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At 1:40 a.m. Monday morning June 6th,  19-year-old transgender woman Karlota Gómez Sánchez was found shot to death in an intersection in San Juan’s Santurce district.

Puerto Rico Police Cmdr. Orlando Meléndez who ignored Karlotta’s transgendered identity and identified the her, the victim as Carlos Alfredo Gómez Peña. reports that “What we have is he [the victim] approached a vehicle and there were shots.

Puerto Rico LGBT Activist Ada Conde says that local authorities should investigate Gómez’s death as a hate crime and  Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in a statement said:

“It is imperative that in this case the authorities follow Attorney General Obdulio Meléndez’s order that prosecutors investigate the hate angle in all crimes committed against any member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and transgender communities,” added Serrano in a statement. “On the other hand, we have to elevate our voices on what is clearly an epidemic of homophobic and transphobic violence.

There have been 17 LGBT murders in Puerto Rico over the last year and a half. These include Ashley Santiago and gay teenager Jorge Steven López Mercado. Alejandro Torres Torres was found stabbed to death in Ponce on June 4

Mexican LGBT Activist Leija Herrera Murdered

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Leija Herrera, the 33 years old Mexican LGBT activist who fought for the legislature in 2009 the Law Against Discrimination, was found  murdered  between 4 and 5 in the early hours of yesterday on the side of the Palace of Culture and the city of Chilpancingo.

Leija Herrera promoted initiatives to legalize gay adoption, decriminalize abortion, add legislative representative for lesbians and homosexuals, as well as condemed the interference of the Catholic Church in activities of the state.

The president of the State Commission for Human Rights (CODDEHUM), Juan Alarcón Hernández, lamented the killing of Quetzalcoatl and has called upon the attorney general, Alberto López Rosas, to legally intervene in order to shed light on the murder of Herrera, and give exemplary punishment to the real perpetrators of the murder – via *SDGLN

Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss Admits: "It Was My Guy That Said "All Faggots Must Die", Keith Oberman Reports (Video)

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Republican Senator. Saxby Chamblis has admitted that it was one of his staffesr that left the comment “All faggots must die” on the Joe. My. God  blog on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ office has determined it was indeed the source of a highly publicized homosexual-bashing slur on an Internet site. But in a statement, Chambliss’ office said it has not discovered exactly who was behind the slur, and has turned the matter over to the Senate Sergeant At Arms. “The (Sergeant at Arms) has worked side by side with our personnel to determine whether the comment in question emanated from our office. That appears to be the case,” an unsigned statement from Chambliss’ press office read. “There has not been a determination as to who posted the comment,” the statement read. “That part of the review is ongoing, and is now in the hands of the Senate Sergeant at Arms.” Spokeswomen for Chambliss did not return a reporters phone calls or emails seeking more details

Typical sociopathic behaviour from Chambliss. No remorse. Pass the buck. ‘Hey I’m not responsible, some other asshole did it! Ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

Meanwhile Keith Oberman and cutie Dan Savage discussed this disturbing turn of events on Oberman’s show last night.