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Gay rights advocate claims hate crime attack outside Spokane gay bar
SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man says he was attacked early Saturday morning because he is gay, but police called the incident a “bar fight gone bad” and refused to classify the attack as a hate crime.
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The memory and meaning of Matthew Shepard, 13 years later
On October 7, 1998, Aaron Kreifels was riding his bike through a field in Wyoming. He wasn’t expecting that day to be different from any other beautiful sunny afternoon in the vast plains surrounding Laramie, but that day would change many lives. Aaron spotted what he initially thought was a scarecrow next to a fence. […]
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McInerney to be retried in Lawrence King murder; hate crime charge dropped
Brandon McInerney — accused of murdering gay classmate Lawrence King in February of 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard — will be retried on a murder charge, Ventura County California prosecutors announced Wednesday.
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Vandals target family farm with swastikas, anti-gay slurs in bias-motivated crime
Buses hand-painted with images of “Love” and “Peace” at an organic farm in Wellington were defiled with spray-painted swastikas and anti-gay slurs in a possibly bias-motivated crime.
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Baltimore woman sentenced in McDonald’s attack on trangender woman
A Baltimore woman accused of beating a transgender woman at an area McDonald’s on April 18 has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to the attack.
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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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Husband, child of hate crime victim shut out by Mississippi laws
A Mississippi man will not be allowed to take part in a wrongful death lawsuit of his longtime partner, because the state does not recognize their same-sex relationship.
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Prosecutors vow to retry California teen accused of killing gay classmate
Prosecutors in the murder trial of an Oxnard, Calif., teen — accused of the execution-style murder of openly gay classmate Lawrence King — vowed on Friday to retry Brandon McInerney, 17, maintaining that the shooting was a premeditated hate crime.
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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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Mistrial declared in King murder trial after jury fails to reach consensus
A judge in California on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of an Oxnard teenager accused of the execution-style murder of an openly gay classmate, Lawrence King.