Tortured For Being Gay

• Dozens arrested for being gay in north Nigeria

  First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said on Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law.

• Russian man tortured to death for 'being gay'

  A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country.

• Tortured with cigarettes, blades for being gay

  After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his clothes and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the pipe.

• Lured into a trap, then tortured for being gay

  He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture -- he was sodomized, burned and whipped.There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23...