Welcome to the Hate Crime tag archive on JRL CHARTS, where we report on attacks, threats, and politically motivated violence targeting LGBTQ people worldwide. From assault and intimidation to systemic failures in hate crime prosecution, this tag is your resource for truth-telling journalism on queer safety, resilience, and justice.
Explore breaking incidents, police investigations, and community responses in cities across the U.S., Europe, and beyond.
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — (03-06-22) — A Florida man identified as Alexander Jerich, 20, pleaded guilty to deliberately burning skid marks on a gay-pride rainbow crosswalk that had just been painted on a Florida intersection. The incident took place while he was participating in a rally for ex-President Donald Trump's birthday. Alexander Jerich confessed [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, FL — (01-14-22) — LGBTQ+ rights activist Jorge Diaz-Johnston, who played an integral role in legalizing same-sex marriage in Florida prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 decision, was found dead in a landfill in Jackson County, Florida. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Jorge Diaz-Johnston's remains were found in a [...]
SYDNEY — (01-13-22) — Australian man Scott White has pleaded guilty to the hate crime murder of American mathematician who fell from a Sydney cliff in 1988. At the time of the hate crime, police dismissed the case as a suicide. Scott White was charged in 2020 for murder of 27 year-old Los Angeles native [...]
NEW YORK, NY — (12-26-21) — A bigot asshole who asked to borrow a gay man’s cellphone in a Manhattan subway station, slapped the gay man after seeing his background picture of the victim with his boyfriend on the cellphone, said police on Friday. The hate crime happened at 2 a.m. on Nov. 15 on [...]
NEW YORK, NY — (12-07-21) — A 74-year-old New Yorker was arrested and charged Monday for threatening to attack the New York City Pride March back in June with “firepower” that would “make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,”. Identified as Robert Fehring of Long Island by police, Fehring is charged [...]