The courts rejected the release of Orlando Alcides Lutz Fogar, who was accused of setting fire to a house in Cañuelas, a case that gained notoriety for apparently being an anti lesbian hate crime.
The defense team cting for the 61-year-old who turned himself in after several weeks as a fugtive requested “extraordinary release,” a measure applied in specific cases, such as those involving disabilities or those over 75 years of age, among others. Judge Martín Miguel Rizzo rejected the request because none of the specific conditions for exceptional release apply in Lutz Fogar’s case.
The application for political asylum for lesbians in Spain is based on the assumption of non-discrimination based on sexual orientation, as protected by the Spanish Constitution. If this is the case for someone you know living abroad who is at risk, they may be eligible for this option thanks to Article 7 of Law 3/2009 , of October 30, regulating the right to asylum.
The steps to follow are as follows: Entry into Spain – Although it would be technically possible to do so from a Spanish consulate or embassy, asylum seekers typically do so by entering the country.
Emma MacLean and girlfriend Tori were walking home from Emma’s birthday celebration when they passed the group of 10 men. One of them made a sexually degrading comment towards Emma so Tori stood up for her saying ‘hey, that’s my girlfriend.’
He continued making offensive and homophobic remarks at the couple before they were set upon by the group. Emma told CTV News: ‘I see Tori being pushed on the stairs right in front of the BMO Centre, and they are cement stairs, and she’s on her back – that’s when all the men started punching and kicking her.
In Krasnodar, last weekend, security forces raided a nightclub on Suvorov Street in Krasnodar. We are talking about the “Central Base”, which is known among city residents as a local gay club*. There were about 200 people there.
The raid was carried out by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE), the Drug Control Department (DCD), the Department for the Execution of Administrative Legislation (DEL) of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, and security forces of the Russian National Guard.
Two Krasnodar women, aged 28 and 40, were detained at the club. The press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs called the women “supporters of a public movement banned and recognized as extremist in the territory of the Russian Federation.” Protocols were drawn up against them under Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences, gender reassignment).
Diana never wanted to leave her homeland. The 32-year-old comes from Juba, the capital of South Sudan. She worked as a police officer, was a football coach in her free time and went to church. Many people knew and respected her. Until her relationship with another woman came to light. There were several rumors that Diana might be a lesbian. Homosexual acts are forbidden in South Sudan and can be punished with ten years in prison. To be on the safe side, Diana does not want to see her last name in the newspaper.
Most of the time the rumors could be dispelled, Diana always denied her queerness and her partner. “I said ‘Nani, Nani? I don’t know any Nani.’ But that was my friend’s name.” This is how she tells SIEGESSÄULE about the conversation with a colleague and to some extent her status as a police officer protected her from criminal prosecution. A photo as evidence changed the situation: the state security service wanted to take Diana to the “Blue House.” At least that was the warning from a friend who is active in a women’s rights organization.
“Whoever goes in there will never come out alive.”
According to a report by Amnesty International, the “Blue House” is a detention facility run by the National Security Service. “Anyone who gets in there will never get out alive,” explains Diana. “Then you’re a political prisoner.” Before things could get that far, her friend organized her temporary departure to neighboring Uganda. And then to Germany last July. “At first I refused. I didn’t want to go anywhere. I didn’t even know where Germany was.“ Diana also paid the school fees for some of her nephews and nieces and looked after the family. Eventually she was persuaded to flee – she couldn’t help her family even if she was dead.
For two decades, Katsiaryna “Katya” Snytsina wore the national colors of Belarus on the basketball court, including at the Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
She deserves to be feted back home as one of the Eastern European country’s greatest-ever athletes.
If you live in Belarus and follow @snytsina on Instagram, you’re likely to be detained for 15 days if the police stop you and decide to go through your phone.
Adele*, 37, was in a relationship with Diane*, 32, who was living with her family. The couple had been in love for several months without any obstacles….
After Adele and Diane moved in together, a family member found a Valentine’s Day card and realised they were a couple. As soon as Diane’s family was aware of the situation, Adele started receiving threats. Diane was ordered home and her brothers started searching for Adele who is now in hiding, following the threats.
They decided to lock her in the house, not accepting her sexuality. The key figures in this disconcerting story are a couple from Ercolano, Naples. The carabinieri arrested the two parents (47 and 43) for kidnapping and mistreatment of their 19 year old lesbian daughter. The parents had already threatened to burn down the house of their daughter and her 20-year-old girlfriend. The two young women, frightened, had taken refuge in the home of a friend. The parents of the 19-year-old, however, had installed a GPS in their daughter’s cell phone and managed to find the girls, showing up at the house and forcefully taking their daughter amid the screams of those present, dragging her into the car to leave.
Before the kidnapping, the young woman had been subjected to violene and threats: “They beat me with a club, I wanted to end it all. My mother told me she would come to cry at the cemetery.”
In 14 days there were four attacks and attempted attacks on lesbians in Argentina. They occurred after President Javier Milei’s speech in Davos , in which he made a hateful LGBT+ speech full of misinformation. They also occurred in weeks marked by the Antifascist and Antiracist Pride March . They are people who openly show their identity: feminist activists, a couple who walked hand in hand, another who lived in a home and even one woman returning from an assembly prior to the massive march on Saturday, February 1. Many are in a precarious housing situation. In some cases, violence had already been been accompanied by insults and threats.
The escalation of attacks in the last two weeks still brings to mind the triple lesbian murder in Barracas on May 5, 2024. Then, as now, disinformation speeches against sexual diversity set the media agenda and contributed to a violent context. Before the attack that ended the lives of Andrea, Pamela and Roxana and seriously injured Sofía, Justo Barrientos had repeatedly insulted them, alluding to the victims’ sexual orientation, and had threatened to kill them. One day, he made it happen.
12 February 2025 A 32-year-old lesbian activist, Mariana Oliver, known as “Nina”, was brutally attacked in her home in the city of Oran. A man entered her home and stabbed her seven times in an attempted murder.
According to the Panambi feminist collective, to which Oliver belongs, the attack was an attempted lesbicide and they reported that the aggressor, Juan Marcelo Córdoba, had been harassing several members of the group on social media.
This is not the first attack that Oliver has suffered, as in 2021 he was also the victim of an attack due to his identity. The attacker was arrested and the arraignment hearing is expected to take place.
On Wednesday, January 29, Orlando Alcides Lutz Fogar doused the house where a lesbian couple and their daughter lived in Cañuelas with gasoline and set fire to it. Unbeknownst to the attacker, they had left the house after Lutz Fogar pointed a laser at the house.
But Wednesday’s attack on the house was not the first. The women had been suffering the attacks for three years, which were reported on different occasions. In one of these attacks, the violent neighbor had doused the lamp post with gasoline and set it on fire, putting at risk not only this family but also several of the houses around it. The women filed several complaints, but the Justice Department put a restraining order on only one of the family members, which was never enforced.
The couple arrived in Cañuelas in 2022, looking for a quiet place to live. There they learned that a neighbor harassed other people, particularly if those people were women or sexually diverse. In conversation with Agui, one of the women who suffered the attack, said, “the day we saw him for the first time was when he attacked another lesbian couple who lived on the block. We got into an argument because the man went to record the property of these girls and intimidate them and when we went to tell them that the girls were not alone, and that’s when our ordeal began.” …
After the successive attacks, the women realized that they were being targeted by a laser light and decided to leave their house because they felt at risk. Not knowing that they were not there, Lutz Fogar went to set fire to their house. They found out because a neighbor called them to warn them.
“After six months without a trial, the young imprisoned lesbian couple Yane and Hage were set free through the intervention of Project Not Alone. That initiative, supported by readers’ donations and a grant from the Attitude Foundation, feeds and frees innocent victims of anti-homosexuality laws in Cameroon and Nigeria. …
When their neighbor made sexual propositions to her, Yane lost her temper, called him a “poor guy” and made clear that she wasn’t interested. Insulted, he decided to get his revenge on her. He tried to learn whatever he could about her and Hage.
Within a couple of weeks, he had discovered that they were a lesbian couple, a revelation that he shared with other neighbors, including a police officer. The police arrested Hage and Yane on suspicion of homosexuality after observing that many masculine-looking women visited their home.
The couple was held at the police station for two days, then were referred to the public prosecutor’s office and then to prison.”
“Homosexuality has once again become a focus of debate among the political classes in Senegal, where newly appointed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has alternately claimed that homosexuality is tolerated in the nation, and advocated for harsher criminalization of same-sex intimacy.
Senegal lesbians and gays already face penalties for same-sex intimacy, with up to 5 years’ imprisonment and fines of 1.5 million CFA francs (approximately U.S $2,500), making advocacy for LGBTQ rights extremely difficult.”
Awa (pseudonym): I’m the president of a women’s association [Editor’s note: for security reasons, the name of the organisation is being withheld] in Dakar and I can say that in the current political and social climate in Senegal, lesbians, although invisible in the public debate, are often exposed to corrective rape at an early age.
Very often, when a family suspects that a young girl is a lesbian, she is taken by force to a marabout who, far from giving her a religious education, will rape her. This does not happen all the time, or in all social contexts, but in rural Senegal it is far from rare.
Then there is the psychological reconstruction work that needs to be undertaken, with a lot of listening, tact and solidarity towards young women who arrive in Dakar weakened and traumatised when they have managed to escape from their family environment, after several years of forced marriages. In that sense, nothing has changed, despite the passing years.”
“The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has named Ugandan LGBTQ+ rights activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera to its list of this year’s “100 inspiring and influential women from around the world”.”
“The BBC said about Nabagesera: “Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda, punishable by prison sentences – and LGBTQ+ advocate Kasha Nabagesera is fighting to change these repressive laws. As an openly gay woman, she has made a profound impact campaigning against LGBTQ+ stigma across Africa. Nabagesera has successfully sued newspapers and the Ugandan government for anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric: she has twice challenged anti-homosexuality laws in Ugandan courts and is currently challenging a 2023 act.”
It has also been reported that “for the first time since Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023 came into force, cases of homophobia-driven arrests have topped the list of human rights violations against known or suspected LGBTQI+ persons, overtaking violence and evictions, according to a report just published by the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF).”
“A former New Jersey lieutenant has been awarded $750,000 in her lawsuit against her former boss, who she claimed sexually harassed her and discriminated against her for being a lesbian.
The lawsuit, first reported by Transparency NJ, was brought by now retired Lt. Constance Crea, who was hired in 1996 and promoted to lieutenant in 2019, against the town of Piscataway and former Police Chief Thomas Mosier. Crea accused Mosier of “a pattern and practice of behavior of sexual harassment, discrimination, hostile work environment, preferential treatment and failing to comply with his own policies.”
Crea accused Mosier of frequently yelling at her and making degrading comments, such as telling her to “doll herself up” or asking “approximately every other month, ‘Who’s mowing the grass?’” which Crea believed to be a reference to her sex life with her wife.”
‘We can’t let homophobes win’: taxi driver ‘sped up’ when seeing her cross the road with her partner.
“Caoimhe, who is known on stage as Freya Femme, said the driver shouted homophobic insults at the couple after narrowly avoiding them.
Writing on the Cork subreddit, Caoimhe claimed: ‘A taxi driver, in his taxi with another person, they were waiting to cross the road.
‘He waited for us to be in the middle and then sped the car towards us threateningly to make us run and shouted homophobic things out the window at us.”
A 20-year-old lesbian student was a victim of homophobia inside a nightclub in São Bernardo do Campo (SP) in the early hours of Sunday (30 January). First she was verbally abused and then she was the victim of physical violence. Gabriela Oliveira Guimarães was at the place called Blow Rudge accompanied by three cousins when she was verbally attacked by other regulars, who called her “dyke” and “Male Maria”. (Translated)
Uma estudante de 20 anos, lésbica, foi vítima de homofobia dentro de uma casa noturna em São Bernardo do Campo (SP) na madrugada de domingo (30). Primeiro, por meio de agressões verbais. Depois, foi vítima de violência física. Gabriela Oliveira Guimarães estava no local de nome Blow Rudge acompanhada por três primos quando foi ofendida por outros frequentadores, que a chamaram de “sapatão” e “maria macho”. (Original)
Outraged because two young girls publicly were affectionate on the bus, a seventy-year-old threatened them with a knife and repeatedly insulted them by shouting “ugly lesbians, either stop it or I’ll put a knife in your belly”.
The serious instance of homophobia occured the other evening on the Amt bus number 13 from Corso Saffi to the terminus of via Turati, in Caricamento. At this point, thanks to both to passengers reporting the situation to the Police emergency number, to the Amt operations center, the woman was intercepted by a police car patrol.
The seventy-year-old, who already possessed a small criminal record, was reported on foot, but got away with a simple report for threats aggravated by the use of the knife (which was later found in the hands of an acquaintance, who was reported for aiding and abetting).
(Translated)
Indignata perchè due ragazzine si scambiavano pubblicamente carezze ed effusioni sul bus, una settantenne le ha minacciate con un coltello e offese in modo ripetuto gridando più volte “brutte lesbiche, o la smettete o vi pianto un coltello nella pancia”.
Il gravissimo fatto di omofobia è accaduto l’altra sera sul bus Amt numero 13 che da corso Saffi stava raggiungendo il capolinea di via Turati, a Caricamento: proprio qui grazie all’allarme lanciato al 112 da alcuni passeggeri e dalla centrale operativa di Amt la donna è stata intercettata da una pattuglia delle volanti della polizia.
La settantenne, con già alle spalle piccoli precedenti penali, è stata denunciata a piede libero, ma se l’è cavata con una semplice segnalazione per minacce aggravate dall’uso del coltello (poi rinvenuto nelle mani di un suo conoscente, per questo denunciato per favoreggiamento). (Original)
Sexually explicit lesbian videos showing a former star of the national women’s soccer team and her partner spread widely in Cameroon last week. In response, social media sites were ablaze with people claiming to be outraged. Online and off, discrimination and insults against LGBTI people in Cameroon intensified, and police made arbitrary arrests of several gay and trans Cameroonians.
The videos showing Gaelle Enaganouit, the former forward team manager of the Indomitable Lions, could put her at risk of prosecution under Cameroon’s anti-homosexuality law.
Article 347-1 of the Cameroonian penal code states: “Any person who has sexual intercourse with a person of the same sex shall be punished with an imprisonment of six (06) months to five (05) years and a fine of twenty thousand (20,000) to two hundred thousand (200,000) [CFA] francs” (about US $35 to $350).
According to the news website CoupsFrancs.com, the advocacy group Stand Up Against the Decriminalization of Homosexuality yesterday filed a complaint in court in Yaoundé, Cameroon, accusing her and Brenda Ahanda of the “practice of homosexuality”.
Reportedly Enaganouit has left the country and traveled to France.
LGBTI rights activists have noticed an upswing in violations of the human rights of LGBTI citizens, including five arbitrary arrests of gay and transgender people in Douala.
Activists have been forced to defend their personal security more rigorously.
Mix (pseudonym), a lesbian rights activist, stated: “I have been living in lock-up since the beginning of this story, I can no longer go out for fear of being attacked by neighbors and young people in the neighborhood. They call me Enganamouit’s sister, Mama Scissors.”
The national human rights watchdog project Unity and its member associations are urging Cameroonians to show more tolerance and have advised LGBTI community members to be cautious and discreet.
ROME, NOV 9 – A 20-year-old Tunisian-Italian woman was attacked by her father after telling her parents she was gay in the Marche seaside resort of Pesaro on Saturday, Il Resto del Carlino newspaper reported Tuesday.
The woman told her 53-year-old Tunsiain father and 58-year-old Italian mother she was a lesbian and was going out with a woman, the north-central Italian daily said.
When she was getting into her girlfriend’s car outside her workplace on Saturday afternoon, her father set on her, pulled her back by the hair and slapped her twice, the paper said, while her mother insulted her.
The woman was helped by a nearby hotel clerk who took her into the building and threatened to call the police if her parents tried to come after her.
Local police have opened a probe into mistreatment in the family. (ANSA).
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