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Australian police have been accused of brutality after a video surfaced that shows officers roughly handling a man during the city’s gay and lesbian Mardi Gras festival.

A Wall Street financial worker says New York City police officers responding to a noisy domestic dispute in 2004 sodomized him with a baton, allegations that recall the more notorious cases of a Brooklyn tattoo parlor employee in 2008 and Haitian immigrant Abner Louima a decade earlier.

A New York City man who claimed two years ago to have been held down and raped in public by several NYPD officers has lost a federal suit against the accused officers.

An Oklahoma man who came to the attention of the gay press for his suit to obtain a vanity license plate reading "IM GAY" was found dead at a friend’s home

The media frenzy over the dispute between a Cambridge, Mass., professor and a policeman shouldn’t obscure the fact that police should know their place, and that Gates had the right to question anyone who came to his home.

Ft. Worth’s city council has upped the ante in the controversial June 28 bar raid by asking for a federal investigation.

A fundraiser for Democratic Congressional candidate Francine Busby, hosted by a lesbian couple in a town outside San Diego, was the site of alleged police brutality on June 26.