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Chile approves anti-discrimination law in wake of gay man’s murder
SANTIAGO, Chile — The Chilean Congress this week approved an LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination law, fast-tracked following the brutal attack and murder of Daniel Zamudio, a gay Chilean man killed earlier this year.
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Friends say murder of transgender woman in Oakland was a hate crime
OAKLAND, Calif. — A transgender woman was shot to death in downtown Oakland, Calif., over the weekend, and friend believe her killing was a hate crime.
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Gay Illinois State University student says attack was a hate crime
NORMAL, Ill. — An openly-gay Illinois State University student is recovering from several injuries he suffered from what he said was an anti-gay hate-inspired attack in front of his apartment near the Normal, Ill. campus early Saturday morning.
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Hate group speakers draw LGBT protesters at Boston tea party rally
BOSTON — A Tea Party rally in Boston on Sunday — featuring guest speakers from two noted anti-gay hate groups — drew a crowd of counter protesters from LGBT advocacy group Join the Impact Massachusetts and members of the Occupy movement, and led to arrests of at least three people.
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Two Kentucky women plead guilty in hate crime against gay man
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The two Kentucky women connected to the beating of an openly gay Kentucky man have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a kidnapping and hate crime assault, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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Kentucky men indicted under Matthew Shepard federal hate crime law
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury in London, Ky. on Thursday indicted two men in the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard-James C. Bryd hate crimes law since it was signed into law in October of 2009, according to an announcement by Kerry B. Harvey, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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Victim in D.C. attack: ‘I remember being kicked, called faggot’
WASHINGTON — A 29-year-old gay man spoke to the Washington Blade on Tuesday through jaws wired shut to facilitate the healing of facial injuries brought about by a brutal beating that extended over several streets near his home in Columbia Heights on March 12.
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Gay Chilean man who suffered brutal attack dies after 24 days in coma
SANTIAGO, Chile — Daniel Zamudio-Vera, an openly gay Chilean man who spent 24 days in a medically-induced coma following a brutal attack March 3 by members of a suspected neo-Nazi group, has died. He was 24 years old.
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Woman charged in D.C. shooting of gay man
D.C. police on Monday arrested a 27-year-old woman in connection with the March 11 shooting of a gay man at the International House of Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights that police listed as an anti-gay hate crime.
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Ending anti-LGBT harassment will take more than a trial verdict
Today, less than seven percent of schools offer institutional support to LGBT students, such as an LGBT student center or programs director. Eighty-seven percent of schools fail to include sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policies. Protection for transgender people is even lower; only six percent of schools include gender identity in their non-discrimination statements.