The mob called 24-year-old nursing assistant Samuel Luiz “maricón” — a faggot — as they beat him to death outside of a nightclub in the northeastern Spanish city of A Coruña, as it is known in the Galician dialect, in the early hours of Saturday, July 3.

Barcelona’s Pride Parade countdown begins among a divided LGBT population.

(WB) Activists in Spain and around the world have condemned the murder of a 24-year-old man that has been categorized as an anti-gay hate crime.

(WB) Lawmakers in Spain last week voted against a bill that would have allowed transgender people to legally change their gender without medical or psychological interventions.

(WB) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday will preside over a meeting of his country’s anti-hate crimes commission after an anti-gay attack in Madrid.