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Utah man attacked in third anti-gay assault in recent weeks
A Utah gay man was attacked in the early morning hours on Thursday — the third anti-gay attack in the Salt Lake City area in recent weeks.
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Gay man attacked outside Salt Lake City dance club in possible hate crime
A Salt Lake City gay man was hospitalized following a brutal attack last Friday night after leaving a downtown dance club on its gay-themed night. It is the second attack on a gay man this year outside the same club.
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Iowa Governor: No connection between anti-gay marriage sentiment and teen’s murder
Iowa’s Republican Governor Terry Branstad on Monday said “there’s no connection at all between Iowa’s debate over gay marriage rights and the death of Waterloo teen Marcellus Andrews.”
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Iowa student dies after brutal beating in which attackers shouted gay slurs
Police have confirmed the death of a 19-year-old college student in Waterloo, Iowa, who was brutally beaten in the early morning hours on Friday, and whose attackers shouted anti-gay slurs and kicked him in the face.
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Police in Long Beach, Calif., investigate increase in anti-gay attacks
Police in Long Beach are investigating a rash of anti-gay assaults in the city’s LGBTQ neighborhood enclave known as “the Broadway Corridor,” according to Long Beach police officials.
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Lambda Legal files suit over homophobic attack at Sizzler restaurant in New York
Lambda Legal on Thursday filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Sizzler Restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, on behalf a woman who was targeted because “she did not conform to the stereotypes of how a woman should look,” according to the complaint.
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Violence against America’s LGBTQ community increased significantly in 2010
Violent crimes against LGBTQ people are on the rise, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP).
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Gay soldiers in Colorado attacked, beaten in possible hate crime
A group, including two gay soldiers from Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located near Colorado Springs, were attacked in a possible hate crime early Saturday morning.
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Nine arrested, face hate crime charges in attack on Massachusetts gay man
Nine youths ranging in age from 12 to 19 have been arrested and are facing hate crime charges in the beating and robbing of an openly gay man in Massachusetts earlier this week.
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Two men arrested in attack on Portland gay man, good samaritan
Two men have been arrested in Portland, Ore., in connection with an early morning attack Saturday on a gay man, and a good Samaritan who stepped in to help.