This morning, marking International Day Against Homphobia and Transphobia, the largest EU survey of hate crime and discrimination targeting members of the LGBT community in the 27-nation bloc and Croatia showed many live in fear and conceal their sexual identity. Details below.

New York City LGBT-ers and their allies...and presumably anyone that wants to come in from Jersey and Connecticut will be rallying on Thursday in protest of the recent anti-gay hate crimes that have taken place in the city. 

The gays don't take this kind of thing lightly, y'all. More after the jump.

The NYPD has arrested two men in connection with the second horrifying anti-gay hate crime assault we reported last week that occurred near the 33rd Street PATH station.

Details on the arrest after the break. 

What's going on in Midtown Manhattan?

Less than a week after eight men allegedly beat boyfriends to a pulp for being gay, another horrifying anti-gay assault takes place in the neighborhood. This time it occurred near the 33rd Street PATH Station. 

Bigots are getting brasher in their violent attacks on gay men, it seems, after the latest "potential" hate crime to hit national headlines goes down in Manhattan in the afternoon. 

The Cleveland Plain Dealer publication decided to take the low road in its coverage of the local murder of transgender woman Cemia Acoff. Referring to Cemia as "oddly dressed" and "it" in its reporting, the Plain Dealer is being called out by GLAAD and other groups for its outrageous lack of professionalism. 

Do the editors of the New York Post run this Midwest paper?

Details follow.

Marriage equality-related violence against gays has been occurring for most of April in France, three months after National Organization for Marriage head Brian Brown appeared in the country to add fuel to the anti-gay movement. Today, he's finally denounced the violence that has accompanied his group's work.

Homophobes in France aren't letting civil rights become law without a literal fight. As opponents of civil rights find themselves frustrated with the inevitable success of equality, they're turning to darker and more dangerous means to get their antiquated and bigoted points across. 

The Nebraska women who worried the nation after reporting that men had broken into her house and tortured her, has been found guilty and sentenced in what was ultimately a hoaxed hate crime. 

More information on Charlie Rogers' sentence after the break.

A 22-year old in Peru is recovering from serious burns after his father tried to kill him for being gay and HIV positive. Details follow.

An attack that occurred in front of young kids and left Sondra Scarber unconscious is being investigated by police—but not as a hate crime. 

Where one crowd on a New York City subway car came to the support of a gay man fighting a verbal battle against a bigoted preacher, another train full of passengers shamefully did nothing when boyfriends were physically attacked in what's believed to be a hate crime.