Hate Crimes

MOBILE, Ala. -- An Alabama woman who was allegedly beaten by her girlfriend's brother on Thanksgiving Day, says the attack was not a hate crime, and is now recovering at the home of her attacker's parents where the assault occurred just days ago. [ Read more → ]

MOBILE, Ala. -- An Alabama man has been charged with second-degree assault for brutally beating a woman because she is in a relationship with his sister and he does not approve. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Tuesday marked the 14th annual observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international day of remembrance of the people lost to anti-transgender fear, discrimination, and violence. [ Read more → ]

Today is the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a solemn tribute to those who have lost their lives to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice, and a day to raise awareness of the constant threat of brutality faced by the transgender community. [ Read more → ]

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Police in this island resort city are labeling the beating of two men on November 10 an anti-gay hate crime and designated the investigation the department's top priority. [ Read more → ]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Members of the University of Virginia's Queer Student Union are outraged over what police investigators are calling a recent attack on a student a suspected "gay bashing." [ Read more → ]

The religious right is infused with pervasive, unrelenting hatred in its most ugly, unsubtle form. We are engaged in a tug of war between humanity and inhumanity as we witness the true colors of inhuman prejudices such as displayed by the right wing/GOP ... They are digging their heels in and we are again witnessing the death cries of an antiquated, stubborn, and cowardly worldview. [ Read more → ]

A Phoenix man is recovering from a late night attack last Thursday in what police are calling an anti-gay hate crime. [ Read more → ]

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The woman accused of staging a "hate crime" and filing a false police report in a highly publicized incident earlier this year, continues to maintain that she is a victim and denies fabricating the incident. [ Read more → ]

CHICAGO -- Two teens have been arrested in the murder of an openly gay high school senior in what police are ruling a “robbery-turned-fatal-shooting," while the victim's family are calling it an anti-gay hate crime. [ Read more → ]

A volunteer for a GOP candidate for U.S. Congress who claimed he was attacked because he is gay and Republican, has recanted his story and could now face criminal charges that include obstructing police or filing a false police report. [ Read more → ]

A Texas gay couple say that the national media attention they received after finding “leave or die fags,” painted on their Clarendon, Texas home only made matters worse, until readers of an LGBTQ blog pitched in to give the couple a new start. [ Read more → ]

LONDON, KY -- After five hours of deliberations, a jury in Kentucky late Wednesday acquitted two men of hate crime charges, while finding them guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the attack on a gay man. [ Read more → ]

Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of two men charged in a federal hate crimes case Wednesday, the first in the nation under a section of the federal hate crimes law that makes it illegal to attack someone based on the victim's real or perceived sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

LONDON, Ky. -- The federal trial of two men charged in an anti-gay hate crime in Harlan County, Ky., got underway in U.S. District Court Wednesday, the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act for charges relating to the victim's sexual orientation. [ Read more → ]

A D.C. Superior Court Grand Jury has indicted two men and a woman on hate crime charges in connection with the June stabbing of a 16-year-old male outside D.C.’s Howard Theatre whom the defendants believed to be gay. [ Read more → ]

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A gay couple from Charlotte, N.C. said they were attacked and beaten on the street during a recent visit to Asheville, and claim they were attacked because they're gay. [ Read more → ]

In 1998, Matthew Shepard spent five days in a coma while the world held vigil. And on this day, at 12:53 a.m., 14 years ago, Matthew died. For many, Matthew's death revealed the dangers of being gay in America, and for many LGBTQ people, it reaffirmed the risk they live with every day. [ Read more → ]

On October 7, 1998, Aaron Kreifels was riding his bike through a field in Wyoming. He wasn’t expecting that day to be different from any other beautiful sunny afternoon in the vast plains surrounding Laramie, but that day would change many lives. Aaron spotted what he initially thought was a scarecrow next to a fence. Then he noticed a glisten of blood. The sun sparkled on what he barely recognized as a face. Aaron had discovered 22 year-old Matthew Shepard, clinging to life. [ Read more → ]

CLARENDON, Texas -- A gay couple in this small, north Texas town said they think that a spray painted hate message found on their front porch is linked to an anti-gay newspaper advertisement written by a local minister. [ Read more → ]