Tag Archives: hate crimes

Get out your Liars Bell and give it a DING every time you hear the Family Research Council lie about hate crimes in this clip. Special guest appearance from voter registration fraudster Bishop Harry Jackson. On Monday, Senate Democrats attached the Matthew Shepard Act to the Defense Department’s annual appropriation bill, something the NY Times calls a “must-pass measure.” Right …

The trial of the murderer of transwoman Lateisha Green begins today in Syracuse, New York. Prosecutors hope to get a conviction with a hate crimes embellishment. It was no secret to friends and family that Lateisha Green was born a boy. She had been living mostly as a female since age 16. On a Friday night last November, Green — …

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is calling for a deeper investigation into the death of Houston-born gay sailor August Provost, who was found murdered in his Camp Pendleton guard shack outside of San Diego two weeks ago. “I am requesting a full investigation into the murder,” Jackson Lee said Sunday. “This death appears bizarre, and more facts need to …

The NYPD has arrested a 19 year-old man who has admitted taking part in the recent spree of gay bashings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Driton Nicaj, 19, is accused of two alleged attacks on gay men – and allegedly admitted to police he was on the scene when a third man was assaulted. He was charged with robbery and …

A candlelight vigil for murdered gay sailor August Provost will be held tonight at 7pm at 1300 N. Coast Hwy at Monterey Drive in Oceanside, CA near the Camp Pendleton base entrance. Facebook event page here.

Two NYC men are under arrest and charged with a hate crime after throwing rocks and beer bottles at a transgender woman in Queens. “I was being attacked because of who I am,” said victim Carmella Etienne, 22. “I’m pretty traumatized.” Nathaniel Mims, 25, and Rasheed Thomas, 22, allegedly screamed anti-gay slurs and threatened to cut the woman’s throat Wednesday …

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 …

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 …

God’s gentle people at the Traditional Values Coalition have posted this strange bit of breakbeat-infused video mocking hate crimes against LGBT people.

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 …

A bomb was tossed from a rooftop into the crowd at Sao Paulo Pride on Sunday, but luckily only 21 people suffered minor injuries. At least 21 people were injured when a homemade bomb exploded at a spot where participants gathered after the gay pride parade in Brazil’s largest city, authorities said Monday. The explosive device was thrown around 9:00 …

The Washington Independent is reporting that an amendment allowing gun owners to carry their concealed weapons across state lines may be attached to the Matthew Shepard Act, the Senate’s hate crimes bill. The spurious reasoning: It will protect gays from bashing. Yeeeeah. And GOProud nutter Jimmy LaSalvia one of the people behind it. One month after successfully tucking an amendment …

Pat Robertson famously predicted that hate crime legislation would legalize sex with ducks. Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci respond. I predict you’ll be singing this to yourself later today. Very catchy. (Via Louise @ Pam’s House Blend)

JMG reader Sean Chapin had the word “fag” keyed across his car while on vacation near Palm Springs, an incident which he has turned into another one of his clever LGBT rights songs.

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 …

Pastor Paul Blair of Reclaiming Oklahoma For Christ is spearheading a national drive for the nation’s “patriot pastors” to call for a “crushing” of the Senate’s hate crimes bill this Sunday. “Just think, if pastors would get up on their pulpits and teach folks about how the issues of today are going to affect them and then lead them, we …

Under headlines like “Homosexual Leader Admits Hate Crimes A Fraud”, wingnuts sites have been crowing for several days over Andrew Sullivan’s dismissal of the Matthew Shepard Act as a “scam.” Via World Net Daily: A longtime pundit and supporter of the homosexual lifestyle choice has admitted online that the so-called “hate crimes” bill now pending in the U.S. Senate is …

“I want to tell you up front that we’re not going to ask you to do anything, to make a phone call or to write a letter or anything. There is nothing you can do at this time about what is taking place because there is simply no limit to what the left can do at this time. Anything they …

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 …

One of the most repulsive campaigns currently being spread by the right-wing is that the hate crimes act currently before the U.S. Senate protects a massive list of criminal sexual activities including bestiality and pedophilia. A list of 547 sexual paraphilias has been spouted by every wingnut group out there and was heavily quoted by GOP Congressmen during the U.S. …