The FBI’s 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report was released today, and shows that “a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains,”...
Jerome Blake is forty-six years old and to benefit the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, ran and finished the ING New York City...
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday placed blame on Tea Party-supported GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for the shocking rise in anti-gay hate crimes in New...
Carl Paladino, the Tea Party-supported GOP candidate for governor of New York state, just one day before National Coming Out Day, spoke to several Orthodox Jewish...
***UPDATED 3:10 PM*** Newsday reports Nassau County police are filing hate-crime charges in this assault. “The name-calling during the attacks this week as well as the...
From its long history of slavery, suppression of women’s suffrage, and black and poor voter-disenfranchisement, to the George Rekers rentboy scandal, to last week’s racist epithets...
Hate Crime Bill Passes Committee. Just minutes ago, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913), better known as The Matthew Shepard...
Representative Steve King, Candidate For Governor, Stalls Matthew Shepard Act   The US House Judiciary Committee began work on the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
Thursday’s historic passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is cause for celebration. The first federal legislation to provide inclusive...
Feds May File Hate Crime Charges Against Puerto Rican Teen’s Murderer. When President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act...
Congress Takes Up Matthew Shepard Act Wednesday   Last Thursday, yet another eleven year old boy committed suicide. Jaheem Herrera hung himself after coming home...
“More than 80 percent of the participating [law enforcement] agencies reported no hate crimes in their jurisdictions in 2008.” (via The Raw Story.) Oh really? That...
America’s Largest Newspaper Misreads Severity, Doesn’t Report On LGBTQ Hate Crime The title of USA Today’s article, “Hate crimes against blacks, religious groups rise,” doesn’t begin...
Eleven Years Later, Maybe Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, Jr., Countless Others Can Now Rest Four thousand thirty-five days ago, Matthew Shepard, the twenty-one year old, one-hundred...
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