Los Angeles, 2005:

A young Kesha has just been kicked out of Paris Hilton’s house party for throwing up in a shoe closet, only the events that would follow this, would change the trajectory of her life forever.

That same night, her producer, Dr Luke walked Kesha back to his hotel room at the Mondrian Hotel, a quick walk from Paris’ house. But after arriving, Kesha would black out, her memory of the rest of the night wiped - only to awaken the next morning with a very bad, dark feeling…

What followed was not only a decade-long fight to get to the bottom of what happened in that hotel room, but also a legal battle, to finally be released from the man who Kesha was convinced was her abuser.

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Florida, 2024: A 14-year-old boy took his own life after falling in love with an AI chatbot. He believed she was his girlfriend and the only person in the world who truly understood him. But she was never real. Now, his mother is suing Character.AI for wrongful death, claiming the bot didn’t just fail to stop him but actually encouraged him.

As AI becomes our friend, our therapist, our partner… how do we protect the vulnerable? And how do we hold the people behind the code accountable?

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Melbourne, 2015: Noela Rukundo was caught up in a kidnapping plot while visiting Burundi for a funeral. But when she came face to face with her captors, she quickly realised this was no random abduction and the motive lay much closer to home…  

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South Africa, 2008: Eudy Simelane was a Football hero. One of the first openly gay players to ever play on the national team, born and raised in the township of Kwa-Thema. She was changing the game - quite literally. She was a vocal gay rights activist and dedicated hours to Aid work. But aged 31, her life was brutally and tragically taken from her. And what followed, was a long and hard fight for justice, in a legal system where gay people barely ever stood a chance. And in a world, where so-called “corrective-rape” is a national emergency.

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London, 2007: 

Audun Carlsen, a 29 year old man was found bleeding in the street having just fled a nearby flat. But the story he was about to tell would shock everyone. Because his capturer, the person he was fleeing from, was a HUGE celebrity.

He’d just fled the home of 80’s British Pop Icon Boy George. Audun had been booked to model for George, who was trying his hand at photography. But suddenly the session took a strange turn and over the following months, George began acting erratic and paranoid towards Audun.

And on their second shoot, everything would take a dark turn. Audun would go through a crime he’d struggle to recover from for the rest of his life. But when news broke of what happened to him, the media went wild. Audun was labelled an escort, rumours spread like wildfire and his medical diagnosis often came before reporters even said his name.

Today we are sharing Audun Carlsen’s story, the victim of a crime so bad, his perpetrator would find himself behind bars for committing…

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London, 1993: A man called Colin Ireland made it his New Year’s Resolution to murder as many gay men as possible, and as soon as he began, widespread fear across the capital’s gay community could be felt. He’d stake out at gay bars, waiting and scouting for his next victim…

Then, desperate for fame and notoriety, Colin would call the police on himself, teasing them with his horrific crimes, leading them down a cryptic path of clues.

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Galop is a charity that supports LGBTQ+ people who have experienced abuse & violence - https://www.galop.org.uk/

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The Transfemicide of Brianna Ghey

England, 2023: 

Brianna Ghey, a 16 year old school girl was lured out of her home and to a park, where she became the victim of a violent attack, planned by a girl who she thought was her friend. But this wasn’t the first time this friend tried to take Brianna’s life… 

Her name was Scarlett Jenkinson and devastatingly, this time Scarlett’s plan worked. Brianna would not survive her injuries and tragically passed away at the scene.

Scarlett had enlisted the help of Eddie Ratcliffe, an unpopular boy with a hateful streak. Together they’d devised an evil murder plot for Brianna. Their whatsapp messages revealed a horrifying web of evidence. Devised kill lists, dark web obsessions and uncensored, unforgivable homophobic and transphobic messages. 

Then, to know when to begin their attack on Brianna, they used the code word ‘GAY’.

But despite all this, Brianna’s murder has still not been classed as a hate crime.

And the trigger for Brianna’s murder in the first place? Scarlett was jealous, because Brianna was deemed prettier than her, and Biranna was trans.

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San Antonio, 1994: Four Latina lesbians were accused of an unthinkable crime and spent nearly two decades in prison for something they didn’t do. In a time when queerness was treated like a crime, their identities became the only evidence needed to lock them up. But they never gave up. They spent years fighting to clear their names and fighting for each other. Today, we know them as The San Antonio Four.

The accusations came from two little girls, just weeks after one of the women, Elizabeth, rejected advances from their father. In the midst of the Satanic Panic, their case sparked a moral firestorm and exposed a justice system all too willing to believe the worst about queer women. This Pride Month, we’re telling their story. Because when the world tried to silence them… they refused to stay quiet.

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Houston, 2021: Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival was supposed to be the event of the year. But instead, it became one of the deadliest rap concerts in history. 10 people lost their lives, hundreds were injured and the world was left asking: How did this happen?

It was declared a mass casualty event, but instead of stopping the show… producers let it play on. Travis kept performing and Drake was even brought out on stage. All while hundreds of people in the crowd screamed for help.

Travis Scott calls himself the King of Rage. An artist who tells his fans to never be bystanders to chaos. But that night at Astroworld, did Travis Scott become the biggest bystander of all?

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Russia, 2022: Influencer turned Only Fans Model Anastasia Grishman, went on a Reality TV talk show to discuss her life. Only the episode became an intervention as experts sat lecturing her new found career in porn.

Her mum cried, begging Anastasia to stop and just as it looked like all hope was lost in getting through to Ana, she let slip a very important detail…her porn career had only begun since meeting her husband, Dimitry Chernyshov.

Dimitry was not only her scene and business partner. But also someone with a dark history of manipulating and beating girlfriends into becoming pornstars.

Then, after the show aired, Ansastasia’s life spiralled completely. She disappeared, and the only place anyone could find her alive was online…

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