A man from Sydney, Australia, who used the gay hookup app Grindr to lure and rob men at knifepoint was sentenced to at least 17 months in jail Tuesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
In the past five years, SFGN has covered a number of criminal cases involving gay men accused of criminal activity.
Here’s an update on some them.
A judge has set a $1 million bail Tuesday for the man police believe set a popular Seattle gay bar on fire just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, Capitol Hill Seattle reports.
A Broward judge on Tuesday rejected a Fort Lauderdale man's request to reduce his $1 million bond on an Oakland Park hit-and-run case.
HOUSTON (AP) - Former Houston Astros star Lance Berkman's public opposition to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance is drawing fire from the city's mayor.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill making its way through the Legislature would prevent defendants from using a so-called "gay panic" defense to escape murder charges.
LONDON (AP) — Shrien Dewani returned to Britain Wednesday, a free man on his home soil at last after a South African judge cleared him of ordering the killing of his young bride on their honeymoon.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A statement released by the Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island calls for "appropriate disciplinary proceedings" against two clergymen and a third person named in reports of past abuse at a prestigious boarding school in Middletown.
(LA Blade) Homicide detectives in Allegheny County are investigating the shooting death of a person identified by a local trans activist and support group SisTers PGH as Amarey Lej, a 21-year-old Black trans woman.
A transgender woman, Duval Princess, was shot and killed on Jan. 3 in Jacksonville.
The number of deaths of transgender people keeps growing as Diamond “Kyree” Sanders was found dead in Cincinnati, Ohio, bringing the number up to 11 this year.
Business at the Boardwalk, a gay strip club in Fort Lauderdale, was interrupted last Thursday, June 5, as undercover police officers raided the bar.
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. (AP) — A Boston Scientific executive was shot and killed at a gas station in a Minneapolis suburb, and authorities were seeking a business partner of his.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) _ Authorities in Sioux City are investigating an attempted abduction near a park.
Jacqueline Luongo is guilty of killing her roommate. Guilty of hiring a hitman to take out her girlfriend and guilty of tampering with witnesses, a Broward County jury determined on Wednesday.
Another year has passed, and all remains quiet in the case of Henry Vidal.
(WB) A Bulgarian LGBT rights group says the leader of an ultranationalist political party who is running for president led an attack against their offices and community center on Saturday.
An unlicensed medical practitioner who infected more than 100 villagers in northwestern Cambodia with HIV by reusing unclean needles went on trial Tuesday, facing three charges including murder, his lawyer said.
The Tallahassee Police Department announced that the case of a gay man found in a landfill will be going to a grand jury, reports the Tallahassee Democrat.
Police arrested and charged a Chicago man with fatally stabbing his boyfriend during a heated argument Sunday, after the suspect was accused of cheating on his partner, DNAinfo Chicago reports.
PGN has filed a request for clarification with the state Office of Open Records, which recently ordered the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to release dispatch records relating to the Nizah Morris case.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A ceramic clown that went missing from a closed Wichita amusement park more than a decade ago has been found at the home of a sex offender who once worked at the park and two decades ago helped restore the clown.
The "Party Monster" is now a free man.
Local Viatical firm profiled in season debut this Friday
Historians and anthropologists say that our relationship with humans started 15,000 years ago when, with the development of agriculture, your forebears became more sedentary.
The mother of a man on trial for the murder of a Wilton Manors couple has died, adding to an already complicated case.
Homicide detectives for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 40-year-old man on a first-degree murder charge.
A New Hampshire woman believed to be the first transgender person elected to a state legislature was charged Thursday with calling in a bomb threat to a hospital, police said.
Police have released the identity of the individual arrested last Friday night during a transgender rights demonstration.
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