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• Pass ENDA Now: Rep. Matheson Meeting

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Over the Congressional Thanksgiving Break, five HRC members met with Congressman Jim Matheson and Mike Reberg, Matheson’s State Director, concerning H.R. 3017: the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in his South Salt Lake Office. Michael Fifield, Federal Club Co-Chair, began the meeting by thanking the ...
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• Hate crimes up 11 percent in 2008

  
  MileHighGayGuy — Authority: 147
  The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, responded today to the Federal Bureau of Investigation report which showed the number of victims of bias-motivated crimes based on sexual orientation increased by 11 percent in 2008. The ...
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• A Moral Imperative: Passing Laws to Protect Transgender People from Hate Violence

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The following is from Allyson Robinson, HRC’s associate director of diversity who participated in Friday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance events in Atlanta. Speaking at the Atlanta Transgender Day of Remembrance observance last Friday night, Georgia State Senator Vincent Fort (D-39) said, “The passage of a ...
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• FBI Reports 11 Percent Increase in Victims of Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Today the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued hate crimes statistics from 2008 showing the number of victims of bias-motivated crimes based on sexual orientation increased by 11 percent that year — the third year in a row reported hate crimes against LGBT people have increased.  Hate crimes based on sexual ...
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• Miriam Mercado Just Became Puerto Ricos Judy Shepard

  
  Queerty — Authority: 711
  "When my son told me he was gay, I told him, Now, I love you more. I want to tell the world that hatred is not born with human beings, it is a seed that is planted by adults and is fostered creating a climate of intolerance and violence. We must change our ways and understand that anyone… could have been my son. And ...
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• “Gay Panic” Defense Expected for Jorge Lopez Murder Suspect

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 144
  Judge Madelina Vega has ordered that Juan Martinez Matos – suspect in the brutal murder of Jorge Steven Lopez – be held on $4 million bail. Matos has also reportedly confessed to the murder. Matos is expected to utilize a “gay panic” defense, considering that Matos’ murderous rage (which may also usher in ...
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• HRC Statement on Brutal Slaying of Gay Teen in Puerto Rico

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The following release ( también en español ) was sent to media yesterday regarding the recent murder of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico: Human Rights Campaign Condemns Brutal Slaying of Gay Teen in Puerto Rico “Prejudice and hate are the true motivations,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese.   WASHINGTON – ...
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• Will the Matthew Shepard Act Play a Part In Jorge Mercados Murder?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 711
  Juan Antonio Martínez Matos, the 26-year-old alleged murderer of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (pictured, right), believed he was cruising for female prostitutes in Caguas, Puerto Rico. And when he found out Mercado was a man? Thats when he killed — and burned, and dismembered, and decapitated — him . ...
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• Oklahoma state sen. wants to block U.S. hate crimes law

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Oklahoma State Sen. Steve Russell plans to introduce a bill in the spring session that would exempt Oklahoma from adhering to the recently passed Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.  Russell argues that the bill oversteps the bounds of the federal government and infringes upon free speech, ...
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• Why Anti-Gay Pastors Failed To Get Arrested At Their D.C. Rally: No Calls for Murder

  
  Queerty — Authority: 711
  So Christian pastors held their hate speech rally yesterday, where they tried to prove the recent passage of the Matthew Shepard Act would violate their religious freedoms . They failed. CONTINUED » Permalink | 6 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Christian Anti-Defamation Commission , eric holder , ...
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• Gay Puerto Rican Teen Decapitated, Dismembered, and Burned

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 445
  On a very serious note, a number of blogs have been reporting on the incredible brutal and horrific murder of a 19 year old Puerto Rican gay (pictured at left). While many of the details of the murder - which almost makes me want to vomit thinking about it - are still unknown, what is equally horrible is that the ...
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• Sorry Slate, Islam is NOT Sole Religious Threat in the U.S.

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 431
  In an article for Slate, Jacob Weisberg asks if United States President Barack Hussein Obama has been too conciliatory towards Islam and not taken a hard enough stance against terrorism purportedly carried out under the guise of Islamic duty. Though Weisberg does do a good job in separating Moderate Muslims from ...
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• Today: "Rally For Religious Freedom"

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 709
  Pretty much every Christianist loon youve ever heard of will be outside the Department of Justice in Washington DC at 1:30pm today to protest the recently passed hate crimes act. Wild-eyed luminaries such as Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Gary Cass, Bishop Harry Jackson and their coterie of crazies will be attempting ...
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• The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a ...
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• Addressing Hate Crimes in Washington, DC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Despite the recent good news from the Capitol in Washington about the new hate crimes law, bad news continues to come out of Washington as hate crimes against the local LGBT community have been increasing at an alarming rate.Advocates have been alarmed by the continued changes and undermining of the city’s ...
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• The Kel Word: Red State, Blue State, We Love, You Hate

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  I get around, geographically speaking. Ive lived in all four continental time zones and Ive been to 47 of the 48 contiguous states.
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• Holder Pledges Hate Crimes Cooperation with ADL

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Holder Pledges Hate Crimes Cooperation with ADL By Rev. Ted Pike 11-12-9 Holder Pledges Hate Crimes Cooperation with ADL By Rev. Ted Pike 11-12-9 Att. Gen. Eric Holder, featured speaker at the Anti-Defamation League’s American Heritage Dinner on October 17, praised ADL for its historic role in ...
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• “Hate-Crimes” Law Obliterates Decency and Morality in America, as well as, Free Speech and Free Thought

  
  Pragmatic Witness — Authority: 118
  With the passage of the Hate-Crimes bill into federal law on October 28, 2009 the corrupt, immoral government in Washington has given carte blanche to unlimited licentious behavior.  In effect, with the stroke of Obama’s pen, these abhorrent excuses for public servants have condemned and thereby destroyed any ...
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• Religious Bigots will Hold Rally to Provoke Arrests Under New Hate Crimes Law.

  
  The Gaytheist Agenda — Authority: 122
  The anti-gay bigots screamed, tantrumed and rended their garments for the longest time before the Matthew Shepard Act passed. The notion that people might suffer a stiffer penalty for targeting a person because of their gender, sexual orientation (be it heterosexual or homosexual), gender identity (transgender or ...
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• Gay Orgs Joint Statement about the Hate Crimes Law

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 533
  History in the Making It took much too long, more than a decade. And it came at too great a price: the brutal killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. are just two among the thousands of crimes motivated by hate and bigotry. But this week, the president put pen to paper and fulfilled a campaign promise, ...
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