Tag Archives: hate crimes

Tomorrow: March And Rally For Queens Gay Bashing Victim Jack Price

A coalition of LGBT and civil rights groups will join tomorrow in a march and rally in support of Queens gay bashing victim Jack Price. March and Rally in College Point on Saturday October 17th, step off at 2pm. We’ll be marching down College Point Boulevard from 20th avenue until 14th avenue.and then holding a rally at nearby Popenhusen playground. …

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Three Arrests Made In Gay Bashing Murder Of London Gay Man

Two 17 year-old girls and an 18 year-old man have been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police in the Trafalgar Square gay bashing murder of 62 year-old Ian Baynham. According to a Metropolitan Police spokesman, the girls were arrested at their homes in south-east London, as was the 18-year-old male. They are being held at separate police stations and will be …

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Friend Of Queens Gay Bashers: Jack Price Had It Coming

You knew this was coming. A friend of the Queens gay bashers who put Jack Price in a coma is claiming that Price frequently came on to men in his neighborhood and therefore deserved his beating. The man even proudly showed local news his Leviticus tattoo. The above sickening image is via Towleroad, it’s from the clip below.

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Relatives Of Hate Crime Perp: He Doesn’t Hate Gays, Had A Gay Roommate

During his perp-walk into an NYPD precinct last night, gay basher Daniel Rodriguez denied shouting anti-gay slurs during his vicious beating of Jack Price. Rodriquez’ relatives chimed in that he was not homophobic, has gay friends and even had a gay roommate at one time. One of the thugs charged with attacking a gay Queens man must be innocent, his …

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Gay Panic: Six Month Sentence For Murder Of Washington DC Gay Man

In yet another example of how a “gay panic” defense can still work, Robert Hannah, 19, has been sentenced to a mere 180 days in jail for the September 2008 murder of Washington, DC resident Toby Hunter. Tony Randolph Hunter died several days after being punched in the head by Robert Hannah, 19. The incident happened on September 10th 2008. …

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London: Gay Bashing Victim Dies After Three Months In Coma

Life support machines for London resident Ian Baynham, 62, were turned off last night, three months after his vicious gay bashing by two women in Trafalgar Square. Police continue to seek his attackers and have just released surveillance images of the assault. Police are searching for two blonde women and a dark-skinned man who were shown on CCTV in the …

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Second Suspect Captured In Brutal Queens Gay Bashing Case

Congratulations are due to the NYPD for giving this case its proper urgency and attention. Police say they have collared their second suspect in Friday’s brutal beating of a gay man in Queens, just as a video of the crime has surfaced, ABC local affiliate WABC reported. Twenty-one-year-old Daniel Rodriguez was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Services …

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VIDEO: Gay Bashing Of Queens Man

The vicious gay bashing of Queens resident Jack Price was captured by a surveillance camera from a nearby shop. The suspect already in custody has told police that he and his fellow coward were fighting in self defense. As you’ll see below, Price couldn’t even shield his face from their blows. (Via – Towleroad)

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Brutal Gay Bashing In Queens

An openly gay Queens man is in a medically-induced coma after being viciously beaten on Sunday by two men shouting anti-gay slurs. An openly gay Queens man was clinging to life Sunday night after being brutally beaten by two hate-spewing attackers on a walk to a corner store, police and relatives said Sunday. Jack Price, 49, of College Point, who …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Tectonic Theater Project, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the October 12th performance of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at NYC’s Lincoln Center. The groundbreaking epilogue to the Laramie Project, titled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center and over 150 other theaters across the country …

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Laramie Project Gets Epilogue

A epilogue called The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, which gives voice to Matthew Shepard’s killer, opens nationwide on October 12th. A decade after “The Laramie Project” became a theatrical phenomenon, its creators are back with an epilogue highlighted by a riveting prison interview with the killer of gay college student Matthew Shepard — depicting him as candid but not …

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Jamaica: The Murder Of British Consul John Terry Was Not A Hate Crime

Even though the notes left on his body said “This is what will happen to ALL gays!” and “batty boy”, the Jamaican government is claiming that the murder of British honorary consul John Terry was not a hate crime. Police believe the murder may have been the result of an argument between Terry and someone he knew. There were no …

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Iraqi Islamists Using Chat Sites To Lure And Murder Gay Men

The UK Guardian reports on how Islamic radicals in Iraq use gay chat rooms to lure in and murder gay men. Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for …

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Gay British Envoy Murdered In Jamaica, “This Is What Will Happen To ALL Gays”

“This is what will happen to ALL gays” read the note left at the scene of the strangling murder of John Terry, the British honorary consul to Jamaica. Police believe that Mr Terry, who was married but separated from his wife, knew his attacker. There were no signs of forced entry at the property. However, it is believed that the …

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HomoQuotable – Jake Raynard

“This story isn’t just mine. I’m sure there’s many other people out there who have encountered a lot of the same problems that I have in my life, and have encountered hate-related crimes and a lot of discrimination based on that. I would urge them to come forward and make their stories known and have it so we can start …

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Brutal Gay Bashing In Ontario

A gay man in the U.S. border town of Thunder Bay, Ontario faces facial reconstruction surgery after being viciously gay-bashed by six to eight cowards with bricks. John “Jake” Raynard suffered 15 fractures to his cheekbone, a broken eye socket, a broken jaw and a broken upper palate when six to eight men surrounded him near a North Cumberland Street …

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Letter Bombs At Rome Gay Bar

Two “letter bombs” were thrown at a gay bar in Rome yesterday, leaving several people with injuries. There was widespread panic when two letter bombs were thrown at a bar in a gay neighbourhood in the centre of the Italian capital Rome late Tuesday in an escalation of anti-gay violence. Italian media reports said the explosive devices were thrown from …

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Brandon McInerney Pleads Not Guilty

Teenage killer Brandon McInerney, who last year walked into his 8th grade classroom and shot openly gay classmate Lawrence King in the head, has pleaded not guilty in a Ventura County, California classroom. Teen murder defendant Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of classmate Larry King, 15, at …

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South Africa: Trial Begins In Murder, Gang-Rape Of Lesbian Soccer Star

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …

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LaTeisha Green’s Killer Gets Max

The murderer of Syracuse, New York transwoman Lateisha Green has received the maximum sentence of 25 years. Dwight DeLee, the defendant in Onondaga County’s first hate-crime homicide prosecution, was sentenced this morning to the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. DeLee, 20, of Gifford St., was convicted last month of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime for fatally shooting …

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