The alleged murderer said that “I did not agree” with the sexual orientation of his cellmate
Janard Geffrard, 29, was allegedly murdered by his cellmate Kevin Barnes, 35 years old, after a beating December 16. The victim's family accuses jail officials of Florida of allowing cellmate Geffrard lethally beat him for 21 minutes before intervening. Geffrard He died from his injuries 16 days later.
Prison surveillance video from December 16 shows Kevin Barnes strangling Geffrard for two minutes. The young man lost consciousness and Barnes He stomped on it ten minutes later. The attack lasted 21 minutes in total and no officers intervened, according to the family's lawyer, Josiah Graham. Later, the aggressor confessed to investigators about the brutal attack and said that he did it because “heor agreed with the lifestyle of Geffrard "because he was gay"And"it smelled and was never cleaned".
“Because he was gay”
Geffard He was declared brain dead ten days later. They put him on life support to remove his organs. He died five days later, on December 31.
Marcia Irving, the mother of Geffrard, said "I thought my son was safer in jail than on the streets” and added: “Someone hit my son really hard, and then he kept doing it, he kept doing it until he got out".
County Public Defender Broward, Gordon Weekes, acknowledged that detention officials should not have placed Geffard y Barnes in the same cell because they both suffered from mental health problems. The family and their lawyer wonder why prison officers did not react to the attack.
The inmates LGBTIQ + Nonwhites are more likely to experience harassment and assault from other inmates than white, heterosexual, and cisgender inmates, according to a 2016 study by the Movement Advancement Project.
Carmen He is 34 years old, he is a home help assistant in his town and he assures that «It has been a surprise, I did not expect it and as the word itself says, it has been a true illusion«. He confesses that he feels complete happiness, since «I always wanted to play that role» and is happy that with his figure present in the Parade «the topic is normalized«.
Beyond the province of Barcelona, the data of the Observatory They point out that the provinces of Girona and Tarragona (3,6%) have maintained the incident registration data from the previous year, while Lleida has registered 0,3% of the total. The remaining 11,9% correspond to incidents committed remotely. The city of Barcelona is where more than half of the incidents were recorded, a total of 160. The districts in which the most incidents were recorded were sant marti, Sants-Montjuic and Eixample.
In this sense, he has indicated that the budget project multiplies investments by 2,2 with respect to the existing items in this matter in 2023, which “is reflected overwhelmingly in the fight against LGTBIphobia”, has pointed out.
The associations LGTBI They are not surprised by the disappearance of the movement's acronyms in the regional budgets. But they consider it a setback. They will monitor whether equality policies are promoted through other programs of the Department of Social Policy.
For her part, the leader of Vox, Rocío Monasterio, recently criticized at a press conference that “Ayuso is determined that through the back door on December 22 they can make all possible changes to take control of Telemadrid, the Chamber of Accounts and the Transparency Council and change 15 laws with nocturnality and alevosito ".
The leaders of Vox They have traditionally been against the festival and in the electoral campaign they already assured that it served only "to shower progressive culturetas with hundreds of thousands of euros«.
Remember that the AND It is a project of Gay Liberation Front of Catalonia (FAGC). One of his great achievements was to promote the Catalan law against LGBTophobia which was achieved in 2014 and marked the culmination of the first stage of the entity. “Unfortunately, it may be that in 2023 more incidents will be recorded since Law 11/2014 came into force. There have been 15 years in which the Observatori has been present in the most important struggles and achievements of Catalunya and the State"declare Rodríguez.
In June, the Supreme Court of the country issued a provisional order last June that allowed the same sex couples register their marriages while awaiting a final verdict.
Also the international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reacted this Thursday to the measures of the authorities, which according to Tanya Lokshina, associate director for Europe and Asia, have a dual purpose: «It aims to increase scapegoating against LGBTI+ people to attract conservative Kremlin supporters ahead of the March 2024 presidential vote and, on the other hand, paralyze the work of human rights groups fighting discrimination. and support the people of the group«.
Households made up of gay men are the ones who suffer the least from this wage inequality, compared to trans people o asexuals, the most aggrieved. The big surprise is the very strong impact among the lesbian womens. ”We could expect a certain gap because gender always affects, but we have seen that it is a very vulnerable group” and with income levels “very polarized”, explains the sociologist and organizational secretary of the Federation, Ignacio Paredero.
Heliogábalo He became emperor in 218 AD, at the age of 14, and held office until 222, when he was deposed and murdered. As he had experienced with previous emperors, he had behavior that for the Roman aristocracy was very eccentric. He is mainly known for his attempt to impose an Eastern god as the main deity of the Roman pantheon above Jupiter: El Gabal, from which he took his new name.
From the pages of the newspaper The phalanx it was ensured that the center of Tephia was meant to confineparasites and undesirable subjects that clumsily damage human coexistence".
One of the central parts of this reform is the educational field, which concentrates five of the twenty repealed articles. These are those who develop the Comprehensive plan on education and diversity, the one that tackles bullying, the one that addresses the inclusion of respect and LGTBI pedagogy in the curricula, the incorporation of the LGTBI reality in the study plans and the training of teaching staff. Finally, it eliminates the sanctioning regime.
The Russian Government has made this announcement just four days after presenting in Geneva, before the ONU, its annual report on the defense of human rights in the country. The Deputy Minister of Justice, Andrei Loginov, stated that his nation, in addition to “fight against Nazism", protects the LGTBI community. "Both in the Constitution and in the rest of Russian legislation, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited. The rights of LGTBI citizens are protected in Russia by relevant laws"He assured.
For her part, the deputy of More Madrid and historical activist LGTBI Carla Antonelli has criticized that the regional president has stated "his first hit" so "Coward» against trans and LGTBI people in the Community «through the back door and through the emergency route«.
The leader of More Madrid, Mónica García, assures in Hora 14 that what Ayuso intends to do is «a real outrage", a “decades-long” setback in civil and LGTBI+ rights «that has cost a lot to conquer«. Consider that «there is an ultra ideological load» in the repeal of this law and highlights that it occurs at a time when harassment, insults towards trans people, towards the group LGTBI +, it has increased. It also catches your attention that it was done by a Friday late morning and by emergency procedure.
LGBTIphobic Law
The detainee made publications with continuous messages of hate against the LGTBI community and the Jewish community, even making specific threats against other social media users who criticized his speeches.
Azahara, 27 years old and Stephanie, 30, contacted the clinic in March 2023, nine months ago, and chose this system that has made them the first women in Europe to have simultaneously gestated their baby. From the The clinic They assure that this procedure provides great emotional value due to the fact that both women have shared the gestation of the embryo.
El TSJC reviewed the medical history of the plaintiff, who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by SCS doctors since 2017. The ruling concluded that there was a “unjustified denial of treatment”. The court stressed that the patient's decision to go to a private clinic for phalloplasty was not arbitrary, but rather a response to the inability of the public health system to offer him the necessary procedure.
They violently removed her from the premises, as can be seen in the video. She called the police but before he arrived he left in a taxi with his partner. The friends who remained at the premises asked for the complaint form, which at first they were reluctant to give. Finally, they sealed it, adding the observation that the client left the premises on her own, when in the videos you can see the violence of the expulsion.
