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Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin

The public prosecutor is investigating it as a potential hate crime.

German Police Arrest Teen in Suspected Terror Plot Against Gay Club

The youth is accused of planning to blow up a gay nightclub and a Catholic church in Frankfurt.

Men Face Sex Charges After Missing Boy Is Found Hiding in Closet

German police say the 15-year-old was reported missing more than two years ago. Now authorities are examing data storage found in the home of a man facing child pornography charges.

Trans Man Killed During Pride Parade, Suspect Arrested

A 25-year-old transgender man who was attacked during Munster, Germany's Christopher Street Day celebration last weekend has died after being violently attacked.

Record 1.2 million people show out for Cologne’s Pride parade

It set the record for the most attendees at the German city’s Christopher Street Day parade.

Destination: Berlin

In an evolving capital, everything old is new again.

PHOTOS: Berlin's Christopher Street Day Celebration

A mixture of politics and wild partying, Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day street party is the big final event ending Pride Week each year.

Gay Diplomat Arrested for Allegedly Beating His Husband to Death

The German official was arrested in the Ipanema neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. 

How Nazi Germany Persecuted Transgender People

New research shows how transgender Germans suffered under Hitler's regime.

Berlin Experiencing a Rise in Anti-LGBTQ Attacks

The German capital saw more attacks targeting gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals in the first nine months of 2019 than occurred in all of 2018.

2 Homophobic Assaults Reported After Berlin's Pride Celebrations

Police reported two incidents of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in the hours after Germany's largest LGBTQ+ Pride celebration in Berlin.

Gay German Film Opens MoMA's Kino! Exhibition

Freier Fall will be open the museum's 35th annual German film exhibition.

Gay Porn Actor Became Jihadi Dual Agent Because He Was Bored

German intelligence is accusing one of its agents -- a former adult film performer -- of trading state secrets in a jihadi chat room.

Egyptian Cops Use Grindr for Antigay Witch-Hunt

Reports have emerged that Egyptian authorities are exploiting Grindr's mapping power to entrap and arrest gay men.

Lesbian Couple Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

After three years together, Belinda Espinoza shot her girlfriend and then herself.

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Yes, J.K. Rowling, the Nazis persecuted trans people, burned books

Rowling questioned a social media post that mentioned this, but scholars point out that it indeed happened.

Terrorist Attack on Vienna Pride Parade Thwarted

Three young people sympathetic to the so-called Islamic State were arrested in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Vienna Pride celebration.

Trans Nursing Student Michelle Ramos Vargas Shot to Death

Her death in Puerto Rico is the sixth known homicide of a trans person in the territory and the 30th in the U.S. this year.

German Teacher on Trial for Allegedly Cannibalizing Man He Met Online

The victim was cut up and his remains were scattered around Berlin. 

Gay World War II Veteran, 97, Attacked and Robbed in Columbus, Ohio

An act of charity turned into an assault on Rupert "Twink" Starr, a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge.