Anti-Gay Hate Crime In Echo Park?
Two men in their mid-20s were stabbed in Echo Park Thursday. The assault may have been a gay hate crime, according to a blogger on "Your Friend, Savan...
Two men in their mid-20s were stabbed in Echo Park Thursday. The assault may have been a gay hate crime, according to a blogger on "Your Friend, Savan...
Posted 05.24.2012
Ohio authorities are continuing to investigate an alleged hate crime at a Columbus-based Waffle House restaurant which left two patrons injured. A...
AP | By EVA VERGARA | Posted 05.10.2012
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's congress passed a hate-crimes law Wednesday night, months after a group of alleged neo-Nazis were arrested in the brutal mu...
Posted 05.02.2012
Friends, family members and LGBT advocates are mourning the death of a California transgender woman who was gunned down in Oakland over the weekend. ...
Posted 04.26.2012
An openly gay Illinois State University student had to have his jaw wired shut after allegedly being beaten by a group of men who shouted homophobic s...
Posted 04.25.2012
A Texas-based lesbian claims she was assaulted outside of a local bar, after her attackers threatened, "If you’re going to dress like a man, you bet...
Posted 03.16.2012
Every week we present a new Poll Position question dealing with some hot topic involving the LGBT community. This week we're asking you to sound of...
Posted 03.15.2012
Three Washington D.C.-based residents are hospitalized this week after what has been deemed a "spate of LGBT violence" in the Columbia Heights neighbo...
AP | By JEFF MARTIN | Posted 03.01.2012
ATLANTA -- The person yelling gay slurs at a man whose beating was videotaped and posted on the Internet appears to be the person filming the assault ...
Posted 02.29.2012
An Oklahoma teen is speaking out after being beaten unconscious amidst a flurry of homophobic slurs at a party over the weekend. As Fox 23 is repo...
Posted 02.24.2012
A Boston man who was allegedly attacked by a group of teenage girls at his local transit station told police he believed he was targeted because he wa...
Posted 02.21.2012
A Massachusetts university is planning a rally after a student journalist was attacked on campus for writing a pro-gay marriage editorial. As the ...
Posted 02.08.2012
Shockingly brutal footage of an Atlanta gang beating up a local teenager who reportedly was targeted due to his perceived sexual orientation has gone ...
Posted 01.03.2012
The heavily injured victim of an alleged anti-gay assault in Texas is speaking out for the first time. "I was hurt really badly emotionally and ph...
Posted 01.02.2012
Update and correction at 4:06PM EST: The Dallas Voice is now reporting that a third man, Mickey Joe Smith, 25, is expected to face the same charges as...
Posted 12.21.2011
A man claims his leg was set on fire by two former friends because he is gay, reports WXPI. Steven Iorio told Channel 11 that he passed out on a c...
AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 09.03.2011
LOS ANGELES — Brandon McInerney was a scrawny 14-year-old from a broken home when he was accused of gunning down a gay classmate in front of stu...
The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 06.05.2011
Two assaults with undertones of hate crime garnered headlines last week. In one case, a homeless man is charged with brutally beating a gay man outsi...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A parolee who admitted to a hate-crime attack at a bar that was the scene of an early moment in the gay-rights movement said Wednesda...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD and COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A suspected gang member accused of participating in what's being called the city's worst case of anti-gay violence in recent memory i...
Gothamist | [1] | | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday staff at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan were greeted by a burned rainbow flag hanging outside as the...
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Shocking video of the brutal beating of Jack Price has been released just as news of a second arrest in the case was announced. Daniel Rodriguez was ...
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
A new study finds that hate crimes actually declined slightly in 2008, despite an economic recession, increasing demographic diversification, and an apparent rise in the number of active hate groups.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.25.2012