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Investigators release sketch of suspect in murder of Texas lesbian couple
GALVESTON, Texas — Investigators in Galveston County, Texas, have released a sketch of a suspect in connection with the deaths of a lesbian couple from Houston whose bodies were found outside a South Texas convenience store on Friday.
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Police investigating murder of lesbian couple found near store dumpster
PORT BOLIVAR, Texas — Deputies in Galveston County, Texas, are investigating the murder of a lesbian couple from Houston whose bodies were discovered next to a convenience store dumpster in Port Bolivar, Texas, on Friday morning.
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Victims in NYC subway hate crime say no one came to their assistance
NEW YORK — The victims of an alleged anti-gay hate crime on a Manhattan subway platform over the weekend are speaking out, and say they are disappointed that none of the more than 50 people nearby called police or came to their assistance.
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Gay couple attacked at NY subway by man shouting ‘Are you faggots?’
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has issued a sketch of a man accused of an anti-gay hate crime in a Manhattan subway station early Sunday morning.
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Austin dentist provides free dental reconstruction for hate crime victim
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man who had nine of his teeth knocked out in a violent assault during Austin’s gay pride weekend in 2012, is sporting a new smile thanks to the goodwill of an Austin dentist.
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Four men convicted of gay sex whipped in north Nigerian court
LAGOS, Nigeria — Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.
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Transgender student reports attack, sexual assault at Calif. high school
HERCULES, Calif. — A 15-year-old transgender student says he was attacked and sexually assaulted Monday at the same Hercules, Calif., school where another transgender student was involved in a fight four months ago.
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Leader of NYC street gang pleads guilty in brutal 2010 anti-gay attack
NEW YORK — The reputed leader of a New York City street gang has pleaded guilty in a beating authorities called one of the worst cases of anti-gay violence in the city’s history.
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Mob attacks suspected gays in Nigeria to ‘cleanse’ their neighborhood
ABUJA, Nigeria — A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to “cleanse” their neighborhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists said Saturday.
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Man convicted in attack during last year’s San Francisco Pride
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco prosecutors say a man has been found guilty for an attack on a woman during the city’s gay pride festivities that was caught on surveillance video.