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Bruno Cuts Gay Bashing Scene

One year ago today I told you about a cage match stunt pulled by Sasha Baron Cohen in which two wrestlers kissed in the ring, rather than fought, thereby inciting an Arkansas audience into throwing projectiles and screaming homophobic insults. It took security and police 45 minutes to clear the venue as the actors escaped a guaranteed beating via a …

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UES Gay Bashing Spree Continues, AVP Issues Community Alert

The NYC Anti-Violence Project has issued a community alert (PDF) after a third Upper East Side gay bashing in one week by what appears to be the same group of young men who committed the attack I reported on Monday. The victim in that attack provided the NYPD with the sketch (left) of one of the men involved in his …

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“That Faggot Had It Coming”

The above is Dan Savage’s translation of the Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead’s defense of his officers in the beating of Chad Gibson during a raid of the Rainbow Lounge on Saturday. Halstead: “You’re touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that’s offensive. I’m happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.” …

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Brutal Gay Bashing On Upper East Side

The NYC Anti-Violence Project is investigating the case of a gay man who was viciously beaten yesterday by a group of men who called him a “faggot.” The incident happened on the usually sedate Upper East Side. The Village Voice reports: Joe Holladay, in town on business, was jumped and beaten Saturday morning by a group of men who called …

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Hate Crimes Highest In Ten Years, Senate Pushes Vote Back Again

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs has issued a report noting that anti-gay hate crimes in 2008 were the highest in ten years. Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people increased 2% from 2007 to 2008, continuing the trend of a 24% total increase in 2007, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)’s 2008 Hate Violence …

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But He’s A Good Kid

Two lesbians were beaten in Provincetown over the weekend in what police describe as a hate crime. Eric Patten (left), 23, is also charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. P-town cops say Patten was drunk early Saturday when he got tossed out of Vixen nightclub and beat up two lesbians, one of whom was shoved through a …

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Brutal Gay Bashing In West Village

The NYPD is asking for tips if anybody witnessed a gay man being brutally assaulted the near the corner of Christopher and 7th Avenue late on Wednesday night. Alan Williams, 50, is in a coma after the attack. Roving hoodlums were out for blood when they bashed in the head of an accountant on a West Village street Thursday, possibly …

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Paterson: Guilt Drives Marriage Opponents

Yesterday NY Gov. Paterson called out religious leaders for opposing marriage equality, saying they do so because they feel guilty about not stopping gay bashing. Gov. Paterson said Tuesday gay marriage foes – including religious leaders – are driven by guilt over their failure to oppose discrimination and violence against homosexuals. Paterson told a gathering of about 2,000 gay rights …

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Guilty Verdict In Murder Of NY Gay Man, Killer Had Called Victim A “Faggot”

A 18 year-old Brooklyn man was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday for stabbing a 20 year-old gay man to death after calling him a “faggot” and accusing him of coming on to him. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News covered the trial, which nearly ended in a hung jury due to the poor credibility of witnesses. Following a roughly …

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Hungarian Court: Gay Bashing Is Freedom Of Speech

Outrageous: Four of more than a dozen people arrested for throwing eggs at a gay pride march in Budapest on Saturday received minor fines on Wednesday, while charges against three others were dismissed and charges against the others were dropped. Those fined were convicted only because they refused to obey a police order to disperse. In delivering the verdicts in …

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Reggae Label Plans “Straight Pride Parade” In Brooklyn

Via Good As You comes word of a “Straight Pride Parade” to be staged in Brooklyn on August 31st. The parade is being organized by a reggae music label who is pissed off because a hit song by their artist Stapler, Hit Them Hard, has been banned by some radio stations because it encourages violence against gays. From the press …

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An Apology From The Maker of “Homosexual Cleansing”

The following message was just left in the comments of yesterday’s post and was also emailed to my YouTube account. To whom it may concern, I would first like to make it very clear that Kraljevic had absolutely nothing to do with the making of this video. They are being unfairly targeted. I am the person who made this video, …

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Homosexual Cleansing

Jeremy at Good As You found this clip, just posted to YouTube under the title Homosexual Cleansing, in which two masked men mock their “ex friend Pete the homo” and smash a photo of Pete with a baseball bat while an off-camera man shouts “Eliminate the faggots!” through a bullhorn. Chilling and disturbing. There seem to be enough clues in …

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LOGO’s Lawrence King PSA

Gay cable network LOGO reached out to a number of stars including Calpurnia Addams, Portia de Rossi, Andre 3000, and Janet Jackson for this excellent PSA. The spot will run on LOGO and across the MTV networks.

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Dutch Cops Want Legalized Cruising

Dutch police want to legalize sex in public parks in order to reduce gay-bashing. AMSTERDAM, 08/03/08 – The police’s National Diversity Expertise Centre (LECD) wants sex allowed in all public parks in the Netherlands. The police institute has advised the cities to follow the example of Amsterdam, De Telegraaf newspaper reported Friday. In Amsterdam’s Vondelpark, owners of dogs let off …

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Shot For Acting Nelly

A 15 year-old high school student in Oxnard, California is it critical condition today after being shot by a classmate who taunted him for his feminine mannerisms and for wearing make-up. A student at an Oxnard junior high school shot another classmate Tuesday in front of two dozen other students who were settling into their first-period English class, police said. …

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Reggae Artists Pledge End To Anti-Gay And Violent Lyrics

My hero, British gay activist Peter Tatchell, is (among many other things) the coordinator of the Stop Murder Music campaign, which seeks to end the anti-gay lyrical content of reggae music. Today three of the top reggae artists in the world, Beenie Man, Sizzla, and Capleton, have announced that they have signed on to the Reggae Compassionate Act in a …

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Justice For Kevin Aviance

All four assailants charged in last summer’s brutal assault of drag entertainer Kevin Aviance pled guilty in NYC court today, receiving prison sentences ranging from 6 to 15 years in plea agreements that included hate crimes embellishments. The four young men, who range in age from 17 to 21 years old, had faced up to 25 years each for the …

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