2008 was most dangerously violent year for LGBT people in over a decade

Bilerico Jul 03 09

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Kim Fountain, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the NYC Anti Violence Project. She is standing with Joseph Holladay, a recent hate crimes victim, in the picture below. Holladay's bashing was covered on Bilerico-Indiana; he's originally from Indianapolis and his cousin is a friend of the site.

Earlier this week, as the deputy director of the NYC Anti-Violence Project AVP) I welcomed a room full of reporters and elected officials to New York City Anti-Violence Project's offices for the release of the 2008 New York statistics on anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender hate violence. Full story...

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