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News (USA)Virginia banned the gay/trans panic defense on the Transgender Day of Visibility
It’s the 12th state to ban defendants from arguing they “panicked” when they found out their victim was LGBTQ.
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PoliticsOut Rep Mark Takano knows anti-Asian bias attacks show “the long reach of Trumpism”
“It’s this reverse Trumpian logic that the strong prevail over the weak, the preying upon the vulnerable in our country.”
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News (USA)Wyoming still won’t have hate crime legislation 23 years after Matthew Shepard’s murder
Republican lawmakers still want more “stakeholder input” on a hate crimes bill that would be decades late anyway.
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Ban on so-called gay & trans “panic” defenses will become law in Virginia
Historic trans lawmaker Danica Roem & the mother of Matthew Shepard helped make Virginia the 12th state to ban the so-called defense.
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CommentaryIs America so broken now that we can’t turn back? Do we want to turn back?
The daunting question as we approach 2021 is, invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “where do we go from here?”
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News (USA)LGBTQ people played a huge role in Joe Biden’s nomination to be President
From the keynote address to the roll call of votes, LGBTQ people were front and center.
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News (USA)Matthew Shepard will be honored with a plaque at the National Cathedral
The young gay man’s violent death spurred calls for a nationwide hate crime law.
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PoliticsOne of Trump’s bigoted, anti-LGBTQ employees will now sit on the federal bench
At age 40, new Second Circuit Judge Steven Menashi probably has at least a quarter century ahead in which he can poison the law against us.
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PoliticsMatthew Shepard’s parents slammed the Trump administration at Department of Justice ceremony
They didn’t even show up for the event honoring the 10th anniversary of passage of the hate crimes law named after their son. They sent a scathing letter instead.
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NewsA man responsible for one of America’s most brutal hate crimes will be executed today
One of the men who killed James Byrd Jr will be put to death by lethal injection barring a last minute reprieve.
