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| Feb 22, 2009 Reno, NV Local protestors are voicing their outrage over what they're calling a hate crime against a gay Spanish Springs student and his friend. Their allegations are shocking and the investigation is slightly surprising. "They're both shaken up. Staying at home, laying low." says Nicole Bedera. She's a Spanish Springs High School student and member of the Gay-Straight Alliance. Other students with the Gay-Straight Alliance say two Spanish Springs High School students were attacked by their peers because one of them is gay | Link: KTVN Reno | |
| Feb 20, 2009Augusta,GAJohn Aiu, home vandalized: “We woke up this morning, and through the front window, we noticed the car light, the interior car light was on and the door was ajar, and then coming out, we noticed the vandalism.” Paint was thrown on their car, the front windshield smashed…and profanity about their gay lifestyle now covers their home. | Link: WJBF News Channel 6 | |
| Feb 4, 2009 Saugus Ca A Saugus woman found herself to be the victim of a hate crime Wednesday morning when her car was vandalized. Sgt. Ron Price of the Santa Clarita Valley station said that a swastika and the words “gay” and “bro” were written on the windshield of the car. | Link: KHTS Santa Clarita | |
| Feb 3, 2009 Long Island, NY Employees and members of the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Center (LIGALY) found their Bay Shore office vandalized in a vicious act of intolerance as they arrived to work on the morning of Monday, Feb. 2, Suffolk Police say.Third Precinct police officers responded to the center on Park Avenue and found that vandals had shattered the front door windowat the center, then slashed the tires and broke the windows of the LIGALY’s 2003 Ford van, which was parked on the property. Hate Crimes Unit detectives are investigating the case, which is classified as criminal mischief as a hate crime. | Link: Long Island Press Link: Newsday | Vandalism at Bay Shore gay youth center decried -article in Newsday about support! "Teenagers, senior citizens and others called for acceptance of gays at a community forum in Bay Shore on Friday as the state's commissioner of human rights decried recent vandalism at the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Center. "When somebody is attacked because of their race, religion or sexual orientation, we're all attacked," said commissioner Galen Kirkland. |
| Jan 24, 2009 Minneapolis, MN A Minneapolis woman says she was attacked and beaten by two men who shouted derogatory comments to her about sexual orientation, KSTP-TV has reported. | Link: Minneapolis Star Tribune Link: KARE local NBC affiliate Link: Myspace (no longer active) | Police say Boyne was treated at HCMC. Police urge anyone with information about this crime to call Sgt. Bruce Kohn at 612-673-2941. A march is set up for January 29th at 9 p.m. in MN. See the (bad link) for details. |
| January 21, 2009 Sacramento, CA Sacramento police are investigating an attack on a transgender woman by two men as a hate crime. | Link: Sacramento Bee | |
| Jan. 21, 2009 Billingbrook, IL A 44 year old man beat up a 15 year old boy due to the child's sexuality when the boy showed up at the man's house to visit a friend. | Link:The Herald News | The man is being charged under Illinois Hate Crimes legislation. |
| Jan 14, 2009 UK Three schoolboys were among 11 Tottenham Hotspur fans charged yesterday with chanting vile homophobic abuse at footballer Sol Campbell. Two 15-year-olds, a 13-year-old and eight adults are accused of targeting the Portsmouth defender in a Premier League clash last September at Portsmouth's Fratton Park ground. | Link: Mirror.co.uk | |
| Jan 06,2009 Seattle, WA Eleven gay bars in Seattle were sent letters Tuesday threatening ricin attacks — in what some are describing as a hate crime. The anonymous letters say, "I have in my possession approximately 67 grams of ricin with which I will indiscriminately target at least five of your clients. ... I expect them to die painfully while in hospital." A 12th letter was sent to the alternative weekly The Stranger, according to its Web site. That letter says the paper should be "prepared to announce the deaths of approximately 55 individuals." | Link: The Seattle Times | |
| Dec 30,2008 Las Vegas, NV Matthew Coxs Mother says suspects are trying to justify sons murder. Las Vegas high school teacher murdered by two students. | Link: Las Vegas homicide | Candle Vigil being planned. Police are investigating. Las Vegas Sun - Funeral Planned Las Vega Sun - Brothers Charged |
| Dec 27, 2008 Dayton, OH Animal Rights Activist (founder of Mercy for Animals), Nathan Runkle, brutally beaten outside of gay bar in Ohio. | Link: Huffington Post | |
| Dec 20, 2008 New York, NY An Ecuadorean immigrant beaten to death in an apparent U.S. hate crime was carried to his grave on Saturday in a town that has seen thousands of others seek their fortunes abroad. Sucuzhanay, a 31-year-old real estate agent, was attacked by a group of men who kicked and beat him with an aluminum baseball bat, shouting anti-Latino and anti-gay slurs as he walked arm in arm with his brother near his Brooklyn home on Dec. 7. He died after five days in a coma. | Link Washington Post | |
| Dec 19, 2008 Washington, DC Gay man shot, killed in Logan Circle area Victim was walking home from 17th Street bars A 35-year-old gay man was shot in the head and killed shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday at 11th and Q streets, N.W., while walking home from the Fox & Hound, a restaurant and bar near Dupont Circle, according to D.C. police. | Link Washington Blade | |
| Dec 13, 2008 Richmond, CA A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay pride sticker. The men, who ranged from their late teens to their 30s, made comments indicating they knew her sexual orientation, said Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan."It just pushes it beyond fathomable," he said. "The level of trauma — physical and emotional — this victim has suffered is extreme." | Link AP Newswire | Facebook Event to raise funds/help for victim You can make donations to aid the victim and her family through this troubling time. Please click the facbook link above to find out how. 4 arrested in N. California gang rape of lesbian RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday. CBS News on the Arrest Interview with Detective |
| Dec 11, 2008 New Orleans, LA 3 Men Found Dead In 7th Ward Home Police Don't Believe Slayings Were Random Police said they don't believe the shooting deaths of three men in a Seventh Ward home on Saturday were random.Early Saturday, a landlord stopped by a home in the 2500 block of Pauger Street to make repairs and made a gruesome discovery instead.Three men in their 20s were found shot and killed. Police said they believe the men were killed Thursday morning. | Link WDSU News Link Nola | |
| Dec 03, 2008 Salt Lake City, Utah Attack on man outside gym-lounge may be hate crime Police say a 50-year-old man was critically injured in an attack with a bottle outside a Salt Lake City lounge and gym that reputedly caters to the gay community -- and that may make it a hate crime case. The victim told police that he left the 14th Street Gym, near 1400 West and 200 South, after midnight early Wednesday. As he was waiting for a cab ride, the man said someone walked up behind him, swore at him, used a derogatory sexual-orientation slur and hit him over the top of the head with a bottle, police said. The attacker ran off. Police said the victim showed signs of intoxication and was not able to give officers an accurate description of his attacker. He suffered cuts to his forehead and was bleeding profusely when he was transported to a hospital in critical condition, police said. Police are investigating the attack as a potential hate crime. | Link Salt Lake Tribune | |
| Oct 22, 2008 Indianapolis, Indiana Two Indiana men in their 70s were targeted for death because they were gay, speculate people who knew them. 70-year-old Milton Lindgren and 73-year-old Eric Hendricks had been harassed prior to their deaths, the Indianapolis Star reported, with their phone and cable lines having been cut and a note containing an anti-gay epithet having been left on their door. | Link Edge Boston Link Advance Indiana | |
| Feb 12, 2008 Oxnard California Ventura County prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with the shooting death of a classmate Thursday and said the killing in an Oxnard classroom was a premeditated hate crime. | Link Los Angeles Times Ventura County Star |
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| Lou Chibbaro Jr - Washington Blade Dec 19, 2008 A D.C. police commander and two U.S. Attorney’s office prosecutors faced sharp questioning during a Dec. 12 City Council hearing on the city’s response to anti-gay hate crimes. Council members Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large), chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety & the Judiciary, and David Catania (I-At-Large), a member of the committee, said they were troubled over police and prosecutor handling of at least three recent cases where gay men were attacked in Washington. “I’m really quite disturbed in the way some of these cases have been handled in terms of police response, which I think has not been adequate,” Mendelson said. Catania characterized as “ridiculous” a decision by the U.S. Attorney’s office to accept a claim by a defendant charged in the September beating death of Tony Randolph Hunter that Hunter provoked the attack by grabbing the defendant’s crotch. Police said a group of four youths attacked Hunter, who was gay, and a friend as they walked to a D.C. gay bar. | Police, prosecutors criticized at D.C. hate crimes hearing |
| Matt Schafer - Southern Voice Dec.. 26, 2008 Change came to Atlanta in 2008 in uneven bursts of addition and subtraction that seemed to leave open the question of whether gay Atlanta moved forward or backward in its fight for equality this year. In the same month city officials told Atlanta Pride to find a new home, President-elect Barack Obama came to Atlanta and encouraged greater involvement of gays in the civil rights struggle. While gay issues didn’t factor greatly into Georgia’s political battles this year, an anti-bullying bill and an inclusive hate crimes bill died in the Georgia General Assembly. Likewise, 2008 saw five openly gay people seek seats in the state House or Senate with only Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates) retaining her spot. | Gay ATL moves forward — and back 2008 reminds gay community much is accomplished, but much more needs to be done |
| Meaghan M. McDermott - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY Dec 24, 2008 A Spencerport man will serve five and a half years in prison for attacking a gay man in a Spencerport bar in March. Jesse Parsons, 25, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Richard Keenan. Keenan tacked an additional year and half on a four-year sentence Parsons was expected to receive after he reached a plea agreement in September. That agreement was voided in November after Parsons made disparaging remarks about his victim in open court. | Assault on gay man lands Spencerport man in prison |
| Rick Brand - Newsday.com Dec 16, 2008 Following the region's second brutal immigrant killing in six weeks, Rep. Steve Israel and a dozen Hispanic leaders called yesterday for the passage of a federal hate crime law that would allow the U.S. Justice Department to investigate and prosecute such crimes. "We have learned the tragic lesson of history that words matter and indifference matters even more," said Israel, who was joined by Assemb. Philip Ramos and Suffolk Legis. Ricardo Montano, both Central Islip A federal hate crime law, Israel added, would "make sure the federal government does not show indifference when anyone is discriminated against, when anyone is assaulted." | Leaders call for passage of federal hate crime law |
| Patrick Worsnip - Reuters Dec 19, 2008 The U.N. General Assembly split over the issue of gay rights on Thursday after a European-drafted statement calling for decriminalization of homosexuality prompted an Arab-backed one opposing it. Diplomats said a joint statement initiated by France and the Netherlands gathered 66 signatures in the 192-nation assembly after it was read out by Argentina at a plenary session. A rival statement, read out by Syria, gathered some 60. | U.N. divided over gay rights declaration |
| Cheri Carlson - Ventura County Star Dec 28, 2008 "...Any kind of shooting would have been horrible, but this one seemed worse. Students at the junior high said King was teased in the weeks leading up to the shooting for being gay and wearing high-heeled boots and makeup..." "...In July, Newsweek magazine published a cover story on the shooting, calling it the most prominent gay-bias crime since the murder of Matthew Shepard 10 years ago." | Fatal shooting of eighth-grader in Oxnard became a national story |
| Gay bashings and hate crimes against transgender people are being reported with increasing frequency around the world. | Gay News Watch International List of Hate Crimes |
| Niraj Warikoo - Detroit Free Press Dec 29, 2008 The Triangle Foundation said Tuesday that the number of violent crimes against Michiganders because of their sexual orientation that was reported to the Detroit-based group jumped 133% last year over 2006. | Hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people up 133% |
| Tracie Mauriello, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau Dec 31, 2008 Attack someone because of their skin color, religion or national origin and it's considered a hate crime, which can warrant additional charges in Pennsylvania. Attack the same person because of ancestry, disability, sexual orientation or gender and it isn't. State Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Highland Park, wants to change that by increasing the list of protected classes. Now....Conservative groups have been fighting to keep gays from being a protected class since at least 2005, when an evangelist and four followers were arrested on charges of ethnic intimidation after they disrupted a Philadelphia gay pride event. | State senator wants hate crimes law as top priority |
| Duncan Osborn - Gay City News Dec 30, 2008 A state appellate court reversed Steven Pomie's conviction on charges of first-degree assault and first-degree assault as a hate crime in the 2005 anti-gay attack on Dwan Prince, ordered a new trial for Pomie, and said he could only be tried on lesser charges of second-degree assault and second-degree assault as a hate crime. ... trial judge, erred in her jury instructions on an element of the verdict that determined if he was guilty of first-degree assault or second-degree assault. The central question was whether Pomie acted with depraved indifference, a requirement for first-degree assault. | Assault Conviction Tossed Out in 2005 Dwan Prince Attack |
| Nick Cargo - Page One Jan 07, 2009 The mother of a gay murder victim is calling on advocates to help convince her state's parole board not to let her son's killer out of prison before serving his full sentence. Sean William Kennedy, 20, was attacked in the early morning of May 17, 2007 outside the former Brew's Bar in Greenville, South Carolina. His assailant, Stephen Andrew Moller, pulled up in a car, threw one punch after reportedly yelling anti-gay slurs, and fled. Kennedy died about 17 hours later from the brain injury he sustained, and friends and family believe he was targeted at least in part due to his sexual orientation. | Gay man's killer could serve as little as eight months in prison Letters can be sent to: Department of Probation Pardon and Parole Services 2221 Devine Street, Suite 600 PO Box 50666 Columbia SC 29250Reference: Stephen Andrew Moller, SCDC ID #00328891 |
| Daily Record UK Jan 14, 2009 Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK MOVES to classify attacks on gay people as 'hate crime' will create a more tolerant Scotland and reduce violence, campaigners said yesterday. ... | Campaigners Call for 'hate crime' ruling for anti-gay attacks |
| Tristan Kirk - Harrow Times, UK Feb 21, 2009 A POLICE station is opening its doors today for residents to see the work done to combat hate crime in Brent. Officers from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender liaison team and from the Community Safety Unit (CSU) will be available for people to speak to about the work they do. | Wembley police speak to residents about hate crime |
| Lisa Zagaroli - Charlotte Observer Feb 21, 2009 WASHINGTON When Sen. Kay Hagan takes the podium Saturday, in her first public address in Charlotte since taking office, she'll face a group that's become a key part of the Democratic constituency – gay rights advocates. That hasn't always been a comfortable choice for politicians because of the potential backlash from folks who don't support gay rights. “That's a gutsy thing to do, though I guess less so all the time,” said Ted Arrington, a political science professor at UNC Charlotte. “They've become a more important part of the Democratic coalition.” | Hagan speech in Charlotte key for gay rights |
| Steve Rothaus - Miami HeraldFeb 21, 2009A year ago, I wrote about the Gay American Heroes Foundation, a group dedicated to raising awareness about hate crimes against gay people. The March 2007 death of 25-year-old Ryan Keith Skipper (pictured above) -- stabbed 20 times and dumped on a roadside in Winter Haven -- spurred Scott Hall to form the Heroes Foundation. | Accused killer of gay man on trial in Polk County, Fla. |
| Stopping the Hate 2009 Stopping The Hate Campaign "Not In Our Town" | Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Human Rights Coalition "SAY IT LOUD AND PROUD IN 2009. NOT IN OUR TOWN!!" |
| Tolerance.org | Southern Poverty Law Center Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide (a .pdf file) |
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| jfermiller | Anyone in Minneapolis have more info on woman beaten for being lesbian | 4 | Jan 29 2009, 3:35 PM EST by jaysays | ||
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I was hoping if there is anyone in the twin cities you could shed some light on this, it is getting mainstream press.
How is she? Does she need help? Are the police giving this the attention it deserves? For more info please see the post on the Hate Crime Watch page... http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/Hate+Crime+Watch |
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| Hothulagurlzzz | Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide | 2 | Jan 24 2009, 7:07 PM EST by kims2 | ||
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Hi everyone! I added a link to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And a useful community response guide (a .pdf file) near the bottom of the page at this link here: http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/Hate+Crime+Watch
Maybe that might help out in the future. Regards, -Hothulagurlzzz |
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| jfermiller | Events this weekend RE: Richmond Jane Doe | 4 | Jan 4 2009, 2:33 PM EST by Treknott | ||
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Contra Cost Times Announces Two Events This
Saturday & Sunday In Dedication to The Brutal Hate Crime Victim "Richmond's Jane Doe" 1st Event What: Candlelight Vigil & Protest Against Hate Crimes When: This Saturday Night ! 12/27/08 Time: 9:30 P.M. Sharp To 10:00 P.M. Where: 1500 Visalia Ave, Richmond Ca Note: Please bring a candle, and do your best to carpool out of respect for the neighborhood. Sponsors: Hand to Hand Self Defense & Community United Against Violence www.handtohandkajukenbo.com 2st Event What: Visibility & Involvement with The Community by Issuing out Fliers of the "Most Wanted Criminals" When: This Sunday ! 12/28/08 Time: 1:00 P.M Sharp Where: 4 mins from where the attack took place, meeting In front of Foods company 1250 Macdonald Ave Richmond, Ca 94801 Note: Rain or Shine Please print as many copies possible of the fliers both in English & Spanish Sponsors: Aileen Cancino & Contra Costa Equality Grass-Roots Justice will Prevail ! |
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