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Vancouver police arrest 4 in connection with alleged hate crimes
Vancouver police announced Thursday they have made four arrests in connection to two separate attacks on gay men recently, both incidents of which are being investigated as possible hate crimes.
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Attackers shout anti-gay slurs, assault Vancouver gay couple
Two Vancouver men say they were punched repeatedly by two assailants who shouted anti-gay slurs at them on the doorstep of their downtown condo building Saturday night. Peter Regier and his partner David Holtzman were returning home from a concert and found two men drinking outside their building, one of them urinating near the door, […]
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Puerto Rico creates special committee to investigate hate crimes
Puerto Rico’s Attorney General has announced the creation of special committee to investigate hate crimes in the island territory, where advocates say gay and transgender people are the victims of an “epidemic” of violence. The announcement was greeted by cheers from activists who complain the government has yet to invoke 2002 legislation establishing harsher penalties […]
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Two marines arrested in beating of gay man in Savannah
Two Marines were arrested and jailed Saturday on misdemeanor battery charges after they allegedly beat up a gay man in Savannah, Georgia. According to the Savannah Morning News, police responded to a call around 3:45 a.m. that an unconscious man was on the ground. At the scene, police found 26-year-old Kiren Daly motionless with friends […]
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Suspect pleads guilty in brutal slaying of gay teen in Puerto Rico
The man accused of the brutal murder of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico last November pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Juan José Martínez Matos, who had been scheduled to go on trial Monday for the murder of Jorge Steven López Mercado, confessed to the crime during a […]
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New charges planned in BB-gun hate crime case
Three men accused of targeting a San Francisco man they thought was gay with a BB gun were taken into custody in a courtroom Friday after a video tape emerged showing 11 more victims. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said there were plans to file an amended complaint against the men — Shafiq Hashemi, […]
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Three men arrested in anti-gay BB-gun attack
Three Bay Area men are scheduled to be arraigned on assault and hate crime charges in San Francisco next week for allegedly shooting a man they thought was gay with a BB gun. The Feb. 26 incident took place at about 10 p.m. when the 27-year-old San Francisco man had just come out of a […]
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UC Davis LGBT resource center vandalized with anti-gay graffiti
University of California Davis officials are planning a town hall meeting tonight after anti-gay graffiti was found on campus this weekend, the second possible “hate crime” on campus in the past week. From KOVR-TV: Graphic anti-gay words and phrases were found spray-painted on the campus Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center on Saturday morning, […]
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Hundreds march in support of Austin men attacked in alleged hate crime
Trailing a banner that read “Austin March Against Hate,” hundreds of people walked from a downtown gay bar to City Hall on Saturday to retrace the path of two gay men who were attacked last weekend. Emmanuel Winston and Matthew Morgan said they were walking to a City Hall parking garage from Oilcan Harry’s on […]
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Two Austin men say attack was a hate crime
Two gay softball players in Austin were assaulted over the weekend in what they are calling a hate crime. Matthew Morgan and Emmanuel Winston say and were physically attacked by four men yelling anti-gay epithets. Matthew Morgan and Emmanuel Winston say they were attacked early Saturday morning after they left the gay bar Oil Can […]