All posts tagged "hate crimes"
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Alleged gay basher tells couple, “You live in Trump country now”
A gay couple from Key West was attacked and verbally assaulted by a drunken scooter rider last Thursday, reports the Florida Keys Keynoter. Kevin Seymour, 38,...
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Gay couple viciously attacked in Ohio: “I thought I was going to die”
Attackers told them "God hates fags"
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Idaho man pleads guilty to federal hate crime charge in Lake Lowell murder
An Idaho man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge for luring a man to a desolate area before robbing him and beating...
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Trump AG pick Jeff Sessions defends First Amendment Defense Act
Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-Ala.) President Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, has offered a glimpse at how the Department of Justice might enforce existing laws...
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Virginia House panel defeats hate crimes bill on party-line vote
A Virginia House subcommittee has defeated a bill that would have considered crimes against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity as hate crimes....
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Transgender black man slashed in New York subway racial incident
A transgender black man was slashed multiple times on Christmas Day while riding the subway in an allegedly racially-motivated hate crime. According to the New York...
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Florida man says he was attacked for being gay
A man in Sarasota, Fla., says he was followed and attacked for being gay by another motorist who objected to marriage equality and rainbow bumper...
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Two teens charged in hatchet attack on transgender woman in Charlotte
The teens allegedly beat the woman and stabbed her with a hatchet as they yelled anti-gay slurs
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Openly gay, Jewish New York senator finds swastika on apartment building
Incident being investigated by NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force Unit
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D.C. bathroom assault ruled hate crime
Marks the seventh official biased crime of its kind in the District this year
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Gay YouTuber apparently faked hate crime after being arrested
Calum McSwiggan claimed assault outside a gay bar, but police tell a very different version of events
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Montgomery County Police to hold LGBT community meeting
In the wake of the Orlando mass shooting, the Montgomery County Police Department is hosting its first community meeting for the LGBT community on Tuesday,...
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“Gay-in” Friday night at Adams Morgan bar where Pride flag was burned
Local LGBT residents are staging a “gay-in” at a predominantly straight bar and restaurant in Adams Morgan after the establishment had its rainbow flag burned...
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LGBT organizations respond to Orlando attacks
LGBT organizations responded to the horrific events in Orlando swiftly and with a unified voice of authority, calling for action in combating the hate aimed...
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Bisexual man found guilty of anti-gay hate crime in New York shooting
A bisexual man accused of shooting a gay man has been found guilty of all charges -- including committing a hate crime
