SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors say they are considering hate crime charges in the December beating of two gay men in Salt Lake City.

A judge last week refused to lower the bail for a former Voyeur staffer accused of attacking a gay man last month.

NEW YORK - (AP) -- A gay journalist who underwent brain surgery after being beaten on a New York City street has been talking to loved ones but remembers little about the attack.

New world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury was the subject of a police investigation on Tuesday following the outspoken boxer's comments about homosexuality that have been heavily criticized in Britain.

DETROIT (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has pleaded no contest to assault for his part in an attack on a young gay man during a gay pride celebration in Detroit.

A Brazil jury sentenced Tatiana Ferreira Lozano Pereria to 25 years in prison for killing her gay son, according to Out.

Division I men's basketball has its first openly gay coach.

Florida’s LGBT population will be protected under proposed changes to the state’s hate crimes laws.

SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina grand jury has indicted five members of a Rutherford County church for kidnapping and beating a man because he's gay.

Stonewall National Museum & Archives (SNMA), has a new Executive Director. After a national search by SNMA, Chris Rudisill has been named to the position following a vote of the Board of Directors of the Fort Lauderdale-based museum, library, archives and gallery. He assumes his role December 7, 2015.

Viewers flipping channels on television during the presidential election cycle are likely to catch colorful, outspoken pundits discussing civil rights, income equality and culture wars—but we’re not talking about 2015, but 47 years ago.

Local community members sat frustrated through a meeting this week with the Northern District of Texas Department of Justice Community Relations Service and a representative of the FBI Dallas field office who maintains hate crime statistics.

Local community members sat frustrated through a meeting this week with the Northern District of Texas Department of Justice Community Relations Service and a representative of the FBI Dallas field office who maintains hate crime statistics.

Dallas, TX - In a Monday night, Dec. 14, meeting at Cathedral of Hope, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk addressed a crowd already jittery from a series of attacks in Oak Lawn and frustrated by a recent meeting with representatives of the FBI and Department of Justice who refused to address ongoing investigations.

Dallas City Council members Adam Medrano and Philip Kingston joined Northwest Division Police Chief Catrina Shead and about 10 police officers and members of the Mayor’s LGBT Task Force to meet Wednesday night, Oct. 21,  with a packed house at Resource Center to discuss community safety.

(WB) Two men in Dallas have pled guilty to a hate crime and other charges for using Grindr to commit violence against gay men and rob them by forcing them at gunpoint to withdraw money at ATMs, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.

Representatives from local and federal law enforcement agencies came together to participate in a hate crimes panel presented by the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

State and local law enforcement need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crimes so that the public can "fully understand what is happening in our communities, and how to stop it," FBI Director James Comey said Monday.

(WB) The number of hate crime incidents targeting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States in 2018 increased by nearly 6 percent over the previous year and the number of anti-transgender hate crime incidents increased by 41 percent during that same period, according to the FBI’s newly released annual Hate Crime Statistics Report.

What’s one story this week you’d like to highlight? SFGN’s “Speak OUT” is a weekly feature giving a regular voice to South Florida LGBT leaders.Below are some of their answers: