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Ball Bat Attackers Immune from Hate Crimes Charges?: Authorities Backpedal on...
Big Stick Combat photo Dallas, TX – What does a midnight assault on two Dallas gay men Friday have in common with a December 2008 fatal attack on two Latinos mistaken as gay in Brooklyn, New York? Two...
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Hate Crime Murder Trial Resumes in Brooklyn
Keith Phoenix: "So I killed a man? Does that make me a bad person?" Brooklyn, NY – Keith Phoenix, alleged murderer of Ecuadoran immigrant José Sucuzhañay, is in a Brooklyn court again after a mistrial....
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Ball Bat Killer Guilty of Murder As A Hate Crime in Brooklyn
Keith Phoenix Found Guilty Brooklyn, NY – Just seven hours after the jury was sequestered on Monday, José Sucuzhañay’s prime attacker, Keith Phoenix, was found guilty of second-degree murder as a hate...
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Gays Murdered at 2nd Highest Level in a Decade
New York, New York – Anti-gay hate crime murders reported for 2009 spiked up to the second highest level in a decade, according to the recent Hate Crimes Statistics Report of the National Coalition of...
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Second Sentence in NY Hate Crime Murder: Phoenix Gets 37 Years to Life
Keith Phoenix (l) in court Brooklyn, NY – Keith Phoenix won’t be on the street again for a long time: 37 years to life, for the brutal hate murder of José Suchuzhañay in December 2008. Phoenix wielded...
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Anti-Gay Murder, Texas Style: Pearland Teen Bludgeoned to Death, Then Burned
Joshua Wilkerson, 18, bludgeoned to death and partially burned Pearland, Texas – Joshua Wilkerson, 18, missing for 24 hours after leaving a Pearland school, was found deceased, his body partially...
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Fort Worth Pulls in its Horns: Charges Against Rainbow Lounge Raid Victims...
Police and TABC subdue Chad Gibson during Rainbow Lounge Raid (Chuck Potter cell phone photo) Fort Worth, Texas – Dallas Voice reports that charges against all the victims of the Fort Worth Police and...
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Alleged Murderer of Transgender Woman to Stand Trial in Puerto Rico
Emmanuel Ayala (PrimeraHora.com photo) Bayamón, Puerto Rico – A psychologist has informed the court in Bayamón that the alleged murderer of a popular transgender hair stylist is sane, and fit to stand...
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Austin Becoming Unsafe for Gays: Bashing on 4th Street
Bobby Beltran, bashed for giving his friend a hug. Austin, Texas – In an apparent gay bashing, a leading gay activist and his male friend were attacked on December 26 outside Austin’s popular...
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Another Delay in Notorious Dallas Gay Dismemberment Trial
Seth Winder, charged with the dismemberment of gay Latino, Richard Hernandez Dallas, Texas – The first-degree murder trial of Seth Winder, charged with the grisly dismemberment of openly gay Dallasite,...
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“It Gets Better” Makes Us All Stronger! A Special Comment by Dr. Stephen...
Dr. Stephen Sprinkle and Dan Savage (Unfinished Lives Project Director, Dr.Sprinkle, was an early contributor to the "It Gets Better Project"). When Dan Savage and Terry Miller conceived of the “It...
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Second Man ID’ed in Austin’s Lesbian-Related Double Murder
Norma Hurtado (l), and Maria Hurtado, daughter and mother, slain on Monday. Austin, Texas – Austin police have identified a second man involved in Monday night’s double murder of a lesbian athlete and...
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Transgender Protection Passes in Dallas County!
Rafael McDonnell celebrates the passage of full Transgender protections for Dallas County Employees on the steps of the County Administration Building. Dr. Stephen Sprinkle of Brite Divinity School is...
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Anti-Gay Murder Spikes Up 23% in 2010, Report Says
Mother of murdered Puerto Rican Transwoman, Ashley Santiago Ocasio, in April 2010 (Israel Gonzales photo for Primera Hora) New York, New York – Alarming 2010 statistics from the National Coalition of...
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Lesbian Youth Activist Attacked in Downtown Portland
Kayla Stone, bashed on the streets of Portland (Just Out image) Portland, Oregon – A 21-year-old musician and LGBTQ youth activist was brutally assaulted July 3 in what Portland Police are calling a...
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Anti-Gay Rapist Sought by New York City Police
Suspect Julius "Stinky" Wright (NYPD photo) Brooklyn, New York – “Stinky” is as “Stinky” does (allegedly, at least). The New York Police Department is searching for suspected hate crime perpetrator,...
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Gay University Student Attacked, Raped, Barely Escapes with His Life
Keire Gartica, 25, Gay Hate Crime victim, recovering from his wounds. Corpus Christi, Texas – A gay university student says he was captured, beaten for hours, raped, and would surely have died if he...
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Gay New Mexico Teen Is Latest Victim of School Bullying
Carlos Vigil, 17, tormented to death by bullies during his senior year in high school. Albuquerque, New Mexico – A gay New Mexico teenager took his life, despairing after years of incessant bullying by...
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Man Charged with Hate Crime in Brutal Colorado Gay Beating
Jared Olson, victim of anti-gay hate crime, before and after the Labor Day Weekend assault. Denver, Colorado – After several weeks, a 20-year-old suspect in the savage beating of an openly gay man...
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Outrageous Verdict in the Sucuzhañay Hate Murder Case; Con Escapes Life Sentence
Keith Phoenix (l) and Hakim Scott (r) - NYPD mugshots Brooklyn, NY – Testimony in Brooklyn’s Supreme Court corroborated Romel Sucuzhañay’s contention, that two young men attacked him and his brother,...
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