For the last year national media attention has focused on cities around the country and the shootings and killings of American citizens, mostly African Americans, by police. Some of these shootings have rightfully resulted in police officers being charged with murder, but most importantly it has shined a bright spotlight on many police departments’ racism…
San Diego Police identified Joshua Adam Sisson, 30, as the man whom an officer shot to death Jan. 1 after he held a large kitchen knife to the throat of his boyfriend in Hillcrest. Someone called 911 after they heard arguing between Sisson and another man in an apartment in the 500 block of Lewis…
A student has been arrested by school police after he was caught on cellphone video beating up a freshman at Morse High School in San Diego. In a report by NBC7 San Diego, the video appears to a show the freshman being confronted by a student in a red T-shirt. The video shows the freshman…
MALAYSIA — Malaysian religious police arrested a lesbian couple after raiding a hotel room in Johor Baru where they were staying, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The two young women had been arrested by officers of the Johor Islamic Religious Department, according to outinperth.com citing a Sinar Harian newspaper report. The newspaper reported nine officers searching the hotel…
Mayors, police chiefs, etc. have had special advisory boards that have included Latinos, women, veterans, African Americans etc. and only a couple of decades ago did public officials add LGBT advisory boards to that list. These citizens’ advisory boards play an important role in keeping the public officially informed and more understanding of the diverse…
San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman spent her 55th birthday Monday night answering questions from residents at the LGBT Center and vainly, but good naturedly waved her hands to try and stop the happy birthday song from being sung to her. It was Council President Todd Gloria who informed the estimated 85 people who gathered…
MANILA — The Philippine National Police (PNP) has thrown its support behind a House measure seeking the creation of a special desk in all police stations across the country to tackle crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The desk is to administer and attend to cases involving crimes against sexual harassment,…
The alleged getaway driver in 11 robberies and attempted robberies in Hillcrest and elsewhere will face a Feb. 20 preliminary hearing. The crimes all occurred Feb. 2 to pedestrians in Hillcrest, Ocean Beach, Golden Hill, Mission Beach, UCSD, and the Midtown area. Benjamin Hernandez, 23, pleaded not guilty Feb. 5 before San Diego Superior Court…
A harrowing 65-page report made public this week by Human Rights Watch paints a terrifying picture of police corruption aimed squarely at gay men in this small, landlocked Asian nation of 5.5 million people. Entitled They Said We Deserved This: Police Violence Against Gay and Bisexual Men in Kyrgyzstan, the report details a pattern of physical,…
A popular watering hole on Cleveland’s West End that caters to the LGBT crowd has been told by city officials to stop calling its police force so much despite a recent string of hate attacks. In a letter dated Sept. 6, Martin L. Flask, the director of public safety for the City, writes, in part,…
