At the beginning of Pride Month, Germany's Christopher Street Day association warns about an increase in the number of hate crimes and calls for better reporting.
An unidentified vandal defaced a memorial to the LGBT victims of the Nazis in central Berlin with homophobic flyers and attempted to set fire to it, police said Tuesday.
Wolfsburg captain Josuha Guilavogui wore a rainbow-coloured armband on Saturday for the first time as part of the Bundesliga club's efforts to fight homophobia in football.
In each of the previous four months people have been violently assaulted in Berlinâs Neukölln district because of their sexuality. The queer community is now trying to raise awareness of the issue.
On Wednesday the trial started of two men who allegedly sexually assaulted pop singer Jim Reeves so violently last year that he died a painful death due to the injuries.
The far-right populist AfD party is trying to literally rewrite history over statements made by its representative who seemed to say gay people in Germany should be thrown in jail.
Berlin rapper Bass Sultan Hengzt released an album cover calculated to smoke out homophobia among listeners, prompting what Germans love to call a âSh*tstormâ.
Nearly half a million people in Berlin celebrated on Saturday the 21st annual gay-lesbian city festival â the largest gathering of its kind in Europe.
Nearly 50 percent of German lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents reported being harassed and/or discriminated against last year, a study on the European Unionâs LGBT community released on Friday and published in the <i>SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung</i> showed.
Guido Westerwelle, Germany's first openly gay foreign minister, has announced he will not take his partner along on officials trips to countries where homosexuality is outlawed.
The hailstorm of criticism that has battered Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle lately over his travel entourage was partly driven by homophobia, his ministerial colleague Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said Wednesday.
"Respect Gaymes," an event meant to promote tolerance towards homosexuals, opened on Saturday amid controversy with a Turkish footballer refusing to be part of the advertising campaign after being the target of slurs and ridicule.
