#lgbtq-safety

#lgbtq-safety

"Grindr shows users who's nearby and how far away they are. In most contexts, that's useful. In the Olympic Village where thousands of athletes are packed into a small area, those same features may become a liability. Someone outside the Village could browse profiles inside it. Distance data could be used to pinpoint someone's exact location. And simply appearing on Grindr tells the world something about a person's identity that, in more than 60 countries, remains a criminal offence,"

On Saturday (24 January), officers were called reports of a "disturbance" on Richmond Street at 5am. Police found the victim at a property on the street alongside a gun. As per The Tab, police were also seen searching an abandoned Mercedes G-Wagon on Princess Street, a two-minute walk from the crime scene.

Over the past year, I've experienced a heightened sense of fear and instability as a transgender man living in an increasingly hostile political climate. Policies, rhetoric, and public discourse have contributed to real-world consequences for my safety and well-being. My husband and I ultimately made the difficult decision to leave my home state of West Virginia because it no longer felt safe for me to live openly and securely there.

"People are getting taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights," Ocasio-Cortez told the press. "The president, himself, has asserted that in fact one of the reasons that this murder may have been 'justified' is on free speech grounds. So this is now turned into what our greatest fear is and has been for a long time around ICE, that this will be used as an anti-civilian force that has no accountability."

Following an attack on a 57-year-old gay man in October that left him in a coma, and an admission by police that they can't increase patrols in Sacramento's LGBTQ+ gayborhood, residents in California's capital city's Lavender Heights district are reviving a citizen patrol they call the Lavender Angels. Alvin Prasad was attacked outside the Badlands nightclub as he exited the bar with his daughter on Halloween night.

warning Americans to "reconsider travel" there "due to unrest, crime, terrorism, and targeting of gay and lesbian individuals." The warning is one tier below the highest Level 4 alert. "There is risk of terrorist violence, including terrorist attacks and other activity in Tanzania," the State Department wrote in its advisory, adding "Violent crime is common. It includes assault, sexual assault, robberies, mugging, and carjacking. Local police have limited resources to respond effectively to serious crime."