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Teen charged in murder of gay classmate agrees to 21-year prison term
Brandon McInerney — accused of murdering gay classmate Lawrence King in February of 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard — has struck a plea deal with prosecutors, and agreed to spend the next 21 years in prison.
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Today is a day to honor humans lost to outright bigotry
Today is a day when all decent persons across the face of the planet should take a moment to pause and reflect on the terrible loss of promising lives rendered incomplete by a noxious and unjust pathology of lies, misconceptions and outright bigotry. Today, Nov. 20, marks the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis memorializes transgender Americans lost to hate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on Friday issued this statement, marking today’s 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance, and memorializing transgender Americans who have lost their lives as a result of violence.
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Community, allies remember victims lost to anti-transgender hate crimes
Today marks the 13th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance around the world, a day when the LGBTQ and allied community honor those who have lost their lives to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice, and seek to raise awareness of the ongoing threat of brutality faced by the transgender community.
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Three suspects charged in beating of Texas gay man
RENO, Lamar County, Texas — The Lamar County District Attorney’s office told LGBTQ Nation Wednesday that three men have been arrested and charged in the malicious wounding of 26 year old Burke Burnett last weekend in Reno, Texas.
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Texas gay man attacked at private party, claims assault was a hate crime
RENO, Lamar County, Texas — An openly gay Texas man was brutally attacked at a private party early Sunday, sustaining second-degree burns and severe bruises, and requiring over 30 stitches to close stab wounds to his torso, forearm, and forehead near his left eye.
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Arrest made in connection with brutal murder of Scotland gay man
CUMNOCK, Ayrshire, Scotland — Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the brutal murder of Stuart Walker, gay man who was found beaten, burned and left by the side of a road in Ayrshire, Scotland last weekend.
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Santorum denounces gay marriage, talks sodomy laws, doesn’t believe in hate crimes
Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, appearing Saturday on notoriously anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean’s “Sons of Liberty” radio program, once again denounced same-sex marriage rights, advocated for sodomy laws, and told Dean that he doesn’t believe in hate crimes.
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Scotland police not ruling out hate crime in brutal murder of gay man
CUMNOCK, Scotland — Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of a gay man who was found brutally beaten, burned and left by the side of a road in Ayrshire, Scotland on Saturday.
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North Wales police stations to display rainbow stickers to encourage reporting of anti-gay crimes
The North Wales Police Department on Friday said that it will be reinforcing its commitment to equality and diversity by displaying rainbow flag stickers at police front counters across its jurisdiction to encourage LGBTQ people to report anti-gay bias-based crimes.