The unnamed woman was apparently buying a round of drinks at the C'mon Inn when she politely refused a man's advances, telling him she was gay.

"The barmaid stole her £20, threw her out of the pub violently, and then went outside to threaten her with further violence while she was being consoled by friends," writes Stu Mileham, who wrote about the incident on Buzzfeed. "The police did very little to help, although they are obliged by law to take hate crime seriously."

In lieu of legal action, the victim's friends launched a social media campaign and encouraged allies to write negative reviews on C'Mon Inn's Google + and Yelp pages.  The bar has reportedly deleted its Facebook page because of negative comments.

"I used to think this was quite a nice wee local pub," wrote one Yelp user. "Then I realised that they have a policy against allowing non-heterosexual people into the bar. I'm pretty sure this is illegal but nevertheless I would steer clear of this bigoted hole from now on."

Over the summer, a federal court ordered the U.S. government to pay some $50,000 to NOM after donor information from 2008 tax returns was disclosed to LGBT advocates.

But the court dismissed the majority of NOM's claims, stating the group failed to prove the "leak" was deliberate and politically motivated.

NOM subsequently filed a motion seeking $691,000 in attorneys’ fees stemming from the original case, but the motion was denied. The group is now taking their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Hey, NOM—if you stopped suing people you wouldn't rack up all these legal fees.

Jenny Broughton, the founder of Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG) and a staunch opponent of Section 28, was given an MBE. Nigel George Warner, ILGA-Europe’s Council of Europe adviser, was also awarded an MBE.

Activist Jenny-Anne Christine Bishop and Dr. Jay Stewart, co-founder of Gendered Intelligence, were both honored with OBEs for their services to the trans community.

The Queen also bestowed a Damehood on Carol Ann Duffy, who became the first lesbian Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009.

Authorities have described her death as a mugging gone wrong, but LGBT advocates insist the execution-style slaying was a hate crime.

Surveillance cameras recorded Parker, 47, fleeing from three men on North Kenmore Avenue around 2:30am on the morning of October  2. One man hit her and when she fled, another fired a single shot to her head.

While marriage equal is still banned in the Dominican Republic, a gay couple exchanged vows at the British embassy, marking the first legal same-sex marriage in the conservative nation.

— UKinDominicanRepubli (@ukindomrep) December 30, 2014

The embassy tweeted about the ceremony—between an unnamed British man and his Dominican partner—yesterday and indicated more ceremonies would be performed.

In June, the British government announced that same-sex couples would be allow to marry at British consulates in some 25 countries around the world.

The U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, James Brewster, is openly gay and married his partner, Bob Satawake, the same day he was sworn in.