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• The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 121
  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: 157
  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: 571
  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: 99
  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: 113
  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: 535
  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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• Organized Jewish Community’s support for hate laws will backfire

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  November 6, 3:12 PM LA Nonpartisan Examiner Robert Stark The ADL hailed the passage of the unconstitutional “Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which according to the ADL, “provide for expanded federal involvement in investigating and prosecuting hate violence in America.” The bill ...
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• New federal law should push Senate to consider state hate crimes bill, senator says

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 665
  LANSING — State Sen. Hansen Clarke says the passage of a federal hate crimes law should spur the state Senate to pass Michigan’s anti-bias crime legislation. “People are still being discriminated against based on the sexual orientation and HIV status, and they need that protection,” the Detroit Democrat ...
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• The Zealots Who Will Try to Incite a Religious-Based Hate Crime

  
  Queerty — Authority: 730
  Religious conservatives argued endlessly that the Matthew Shepard Act would infringe on religious freedoms because, if a pastor were to preach homophobia at the pulpit and a member of his parish went out and killed a queer, the murderers religious beliefs would be used against him in court. So now that LGBT hate ...
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• Erase Hate with the Matthew Shepard Pendant

  
  Pride Jewelry — Authority: 428
  In honor of his sacrifice and the dedication he had towards the worldwide LGBT community, the online jewelry store Love and Pride in association with the Matthew Shepard Foundation are bringing you the Erase Hate Pendant . 100% of the proceeds of these amazing pendants go to the foundation to help them achieve their ...
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• Column: In celebration of hate crime law

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From McClatchy-Tribune News Service in the Baltimore Sun:Kathi Wolfe, who identifies herself as a legally blind lesbian, says the president should be praised for signing the hate crime bill, which enlarges the definition of federal hate crimes to include those involving sexual orientation, gender or disability.Wolfe ...
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• Dept. of Justice testimony on ENDA: Pass it now

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Civil Rights division says that the Administration strongly supports fully-inclusive legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Dept. of Justice testimony on ENDA: Pass it now is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of Websites. Arizona: Tucson Phoenix ...
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• Random musing re: honour killings and sex changes

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  In noting the death of Noor Almaleki, Mark Steyn remarks thusly : Noor Almaleki, whom I wrote about  over the weekend , has  died , the latest Western victim of a Muslim honor killing. If there were a Matthew Shepard murder every few months, Frank Rich et al would be going bananas about the “climate of ...
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• Revolution #9

  
  johnozed — Authority: 128
  Religion is for superstitious ignorant people. There! Ive said it!
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• Pauley Perrette and Friends Honor Matthew Shepard Security Provided by John J. Nazarian and Associates

  
  Rose speaks - Celebrity and High Profile Trials — Authority: 126
  On Sunday October 25, 2009, Nazarian and Associates provided services to my dear friend Pauley Perrette at the Hollywood United Methodist Church. Pauley and several hundred of her friends were host to “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” a play telling the story of Matthew Wayne Shepard, who was tortured and ...
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• Free to be you, me and ze

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  As the Out Front team has stated , the LGBT community celebrated some huge milestones in October. The last week in October was no exception as President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act , extending the definition of federal hate crimes to include attacks motivated by ...
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• How about giving a little HOPE this season?

  
  Pride Jewelry — Authority: 428
  Let’s face it, we could all use a little hope these days. The world is changing for gays and lesbians but while in some ways we are improving in others we are going backwards. What we need is to have hope and give hope and there is one sure fire way to do both while filling yourself up with gay pride. Love and ...
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• The End of the Beginning: How the Hate Crimes Law Transforms Us

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Ed. Note: The following guest post “The End of the Beginning: How the Passage of the Matthew Shepard Act Transforms Us” is from Stephen V. Sprinkle, Ph.D. of the Brite Divinity School. Researching LGBT hate crimes for four years has changed my life.  Now that the passage of the Matthew Shepard Act is imminent, ...
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• Rahm Emanuel Runs Away From the M-Word

  
  Queerty — Authority: 730
  We couldnt help but chuckle at Sara Whitmans narrative from her White House visit — where she "was humbled, honored and yes, fawned" — when the president signed the Matthew Shepard Act. CONTINUED » Permalink | 12 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Barack Obama , matthew shepard act , Rahm ...
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