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Months of anti-gay slurs escalate into brutal attack on Oklahoma lesbian
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — An Oklahoma lesbian was attacked this week after months of anti-gay slurs and verbal harassment escalated into a brutal assault.
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Teenager ordered tried as adult in alleged hate crime in Missouri
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A juvenile court judge in Cape Girardeau, Mo., ruled Wednesday that the 17-year-old female suspect in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident will be prosecuted as an adult.
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DC police chief joins rally, walk against anti-LGBT violence
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, a contingent of police officials, two members of the City Council, and civic activists from the city’s Bloomingdale and Eckington neighborhoods participated in a rally and walk Thursday night against anti-LGBT violence.
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Gay man fabricates hate crime attack
MISSOULA, Mont. — A 22-year-old openly gay Montana man who reported he was the victim of an alleged hate crime fabricated the attack, and has pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false police report.
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Lesbian couple attacked by neighborhood youth in alleged hate crime
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A lesbian couple in southeastern Missouri is recovering from an alleged attack by three neighborhood youths in what the couple claims is hate crime motivated by the sibling’s discrimination of their sexual orientation.
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Victim in Nebraska hate crime comes forward, speaks out publicly
LINCOLN, Neb. — In her first appearance since suffering an alleged attack in a home invasion last week that police officials are investigating as a possible hate crime, Charlie Rogers of Lincoln, Neb., said, “I’m not hiding from this anymore.”
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Police: No evidence of hate crime, no evidence of hoax either in brutal attack on lesbian
LINCOLN, Neb. — Investigators looking into an attack against an openly lesbian woman this past weekend are not ruling out the possibility that the alleged hate crime may have been a hoax.
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Why I’m going to a Texas vigil to mourn a lesbian couple
I’m going to Texas on Friday to mourn the loss of a beautiful young girl at a vigil in the park where she and her girlfriend were shot. But I’m also hoping this tragedy wakes people up to the nightmares on the horizon that are sure to come if our foes don’t halt their rancid and reactionary rhetoric.
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Murder suspect arrested in brutal slaying of LGBT volunteer in South Africa
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of Thapelo Makuthle in Kuruman, near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.
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New York teen left blinded in one eye following brutal, anti-gay assault
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn teenager was was left blind in one eye after being assaulted by bullies who shouted anti-gay epithets during an attack earlier this month at his middle school, according to the teen’s family