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  • Authorities agree to investigate Mercado’s death as hate crime

    Puerto Rican authorities have agreed to investigate Jorge Steven López Mercado’s murder as a hate crime after they met with local representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union.

  • After decade long battle, federal hate crimes law expanded to include gays (Video)

    It’s been more than 10 years since the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was kidnapped, brutally beaten and left to die tied to a fence on a freezing night in the Wyoming wilderness.

  • Obama to sign hate crime bill on Wednesday

    Washington Blade. President Obama intends to sign into law Wednesday a long-sought hate crimes protection measure as part of a major defense bill, according to an administration source. The president plans to pen his name to the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill, which includes a provision known as the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd […]

  • U.S. Senate passes historic hate crimes bill that would protect gays

    The U.S. Senate cleared a historic hate crimes bill Thursday for President Obama’s signature, approving new federal penalties for attacks on gay men and lesbians.

  • House vote expands hate crimes protections to gays and lesbians

    House vote expands hate crimes protections to gays and lesbians

    The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to expand the definition of violent federal hate crimes to include those committed because of a victim’s sexual orientation, a step that would extend new protections to gay, lesbian,and transgender people, reports the New York Times. Democrats hailed the vote of 281 to 146, which brought the measure […]