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Refilwe Gift Malope, a 28-year-old lesbian activist, was murdered by people she knew and trusted — a police officer, Sgt Thabo Moses Mokwana, and his cousin, Modirela Maxwell Mokwana. On 9 May 2022, the two men abducted Malope from Kgaphamadi village. Witnesses saw them forcing her into the boot of a car after she agreed to help them with what she believed was a car issue. Malope had told her…

Moroccan lesbian Ibtissam “Betty” Lachgar has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and fined nearly €5,000 for blasphemy in September 2025, after posting a photo wearing a t-shirt that read “Allah is lesbian”. Before her arrest, she spoke out about the backlash to the photo, saying she endured “three days of online harassment and thousands of threats of rape and death, and calls for execution…

A Texas man is facing assault and hate crime charges after authorities say he brutally attacked a lesbian couple celebrating with family in Detroit on 13 July 2025. Prosecutors allege 26-year-old William Wilson targeted the women after seeing the two same sex couples holding hands, taunting them with homophobic slurs before turning violent. Chelsi Way’s wife was knocked unconscious and later…

A lesbian refugee has been deported from Germany to Türkiye despite facing serious threats to her life, prompting strong criticism from the lesbian counselling organisation, LeTRa. The Munich-based group condemned the deportation of 33-year-old Kiymet A. as a “particularly dramatic and worrying case” and a “human rights failure.” According to LeTRa, Kiymet was deported to Istanbul on 18 August…

A woman who fled homophobic abuse in Northern Cyprus is facing deportation from the UK, despite building a new life in Brighton with her wife. Hazel Mehmed, 40, and Deniz Alptekin, 47, arrived in Brighton in December 2021 after years of hiding their relationship in the conservative and often hostile environment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The couple began dating in 2010 but were…

A 24-year-old woman from Naples, Chiara (not her real name) has broken her silence after years of abuse by her father, who allegedly attacked and threatened to kill her because she is a lesbian. The man, 51, is now in custody, facing charges of stalking and domestic violence. Chiara revealed that the abuse had gone on for years, escalating recently when her father confronted her at work, calling…

July 2025: Chased and threatened at gunpoint, a married Black lesbian couple in Spotsylvania County, Va., was nearly killed in a potentially racially motivated hate crime around 6:30 p.m. on July 20. …  On the day of the attack, Amylah Majors and Jamaria Gaskins were driving on Partlow Road when they hit debris and checked out the damage. Soon after, Majors said three white people, two men and…

A French school principal has died by suicide after enduring a prolonged campaign of homophobic harassment within her community. Caroline Grandjean, 42, was the principal of a nursery school (for children 2/3-5) in the village of Moussages. It is understood that someone discovered she was married to a woman, despite not being public about her relationship. The harassment commenced in 2023 with…

August 2025: Cristofer Arnoldo Pino Pino was sentenced to 15 years for murdering Sandra Almeida Lizama in November 2023. The historic ruling was handed down unanimously by the Third Criminal Court of Santiago. Claudia Castañeda, a lawyer for the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh): “Although the family and Movilh were seeking a life sentence, the truth is that this is…

After two years together, Ramita and Shilu, both 22, attempted to register their marriage in Sunkoshi, Nepal, following a 2023 Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriafe. Their application was met with confusion, delays, and rejection, by local officials. Ramita’s family, opposed to their relationship, reported Ramita as missing, leading to police involvement and a confrontation at the…

The State Federation of LGBT+ (Felgtbi+) reported that Spanish lesbians continue to suffer discrimination, with one in three lesbians experiencing harassment between 2020 and 2024, and one in 10 experiencing physical or sexual assault. In additon, 35% of lesbians between the ages of 18 and 24 (Generation Z) experienced bullying at school. Felgtbi+ condemned this situation on Lesbian Visibility…

Anna Lou Castoldi, daughter of Asia Argento and Morgan, has spoken out against the homophobic backlash she received after revealing on live TV that she has a girlfriend. Following her candid response to an unexpected question on Domenica In, she was subjected to a flood of online abuse. After several days of hateful and insulting comments targeting her physical appearance, her parents and her…

The Maranhão Court of Justice has upheld the decision to send Elizeu Carvalho de Castro to a jury trial for the cruel and brutal murder of 21-year-old lesbian Ana Caroline Sousa Campelo, whose mutilated body was found on 10 December 2023, in Maranhãozinho. Prosecutors allege she was killed by asphyxiation in a hate crime after being abducted while cycling home from work. Carvalho, also known as…

A jury trial has been scheduled for Mark Stinson, an Elk River man accused of threatening his lesbian neighbors. … Kayla Lindenfelser and Corrine Pfoser were allegedly threatened by their Elk River neighbor with a gun, leading up to a police standoff Sunday afternoon into Monday morning, Nov. 18. The woman, Corinne Pfoser, was bagging up leaves with one of her foster children on a Sunday…

Following ongoing harassment and lesbophobic abuse, Emilie Díaz and Kerly Rozo claim that they and their mothers were verbally and physically assaulted by local residents. The alleged incident occurred at the house the couple shares share with their two year old daughter in the La Rosita neighbourhood of Villavicencio. Emilie and Kerly allege that on 18 April they had asked their neighbours to…