An unknown assailant or assailants decapitated, dismembered and partially burned Jorge Steven Lopez's body in a wooded area near Cayey in what local police and activists have concluded is a possible anti-gay hate crime.
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Word to would-be assailants: Don't scream anti-gay epithets at your assailants, or you're on the hook for a hate crime.
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One of the assailants has been charged with hate crimes, police said. Robert Bellamy Jr., 23, was charged with robbery and assault.
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A gay man was knocked to the ground and run over by SUV-driving assailants in Toronto; he later died in the hospital.
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Earlier this year, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would prohibit defense contracts going to companies that required employees to sign away their right to sue.
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Video from a surveillance camera shows the brutal beating of Jack Price Friday in Queens. Both suspected attackers have been arrested.
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Jack Price, who was brutally beaten in Queens this past Sunday by two assailants simply because of his sexual orientation, is now in a medically-induced coma.
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Eudy Simelane was a 31-year-old lesbian activist and one of this nation's best female soccer players, a tall, muscular woman who knew how to defend herself with her fists and her elbows.
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A mob of anti-gay assailants allegedly chased down a 30-year-old man in Ontario and evidently used the brick he had picked up for self-defense to fracture a number of his facial bones.
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Source: Dallas Voice, Dallas Morning News
Jimmy Lee Dean told a jury that his face had to be “meshed together” by doctors after a brutal July 2008 attackBobby Jack Singleton was found guilty today by a Dallas jury of aggravated robbery for a gay-bashing attack that has been called one of the most brutal anti-gay hate crimes Dallas has seen in recent memory
In July, 2008, Singleton, 31, and Jonathan Gunter, 33, both of Garland, brutally beat Jimmy Lee Dean shortly after midnight in a neighborhood about a block away from a strip that includes several gay clubs.
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A man who was beaten viciously as his assailants uttered anti-gay epithets testified Tuesday that he's in pain every day and that his face is held together with metal, mesh and screws.
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UPDATE: Initial press reports described the explosive devices as "small bombs," but Danish media is merely describing them as "powerful firecrackers.
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Via Towleroad: ""I was shocked tonight to bump into a new friend, Mark, hobbling down the street. I was about to make a joke as I rode up behind him on my bike and then saw his face.
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Andrew Sullivan reports: "I was shocked tonight to bump into a new friend, Mark, hobbling down the street.
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From Raw Story [emphasis mine]:
A Boise, Idaho, police officer who pushed a Taser inside a man’s buttocks and threatened to “Taser his balls” violated use-of-force policy, but didn’t break the law, an ombudsman has found.
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The NYC Anti-Violence Project has issued a community alert now that the New York City Police Department's Hate Crimes Bureau thinks several recent anti-gay attacks on the Upper East Side might have come at the hands of the same assailants.
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While LGBT community outrage continues over the lenient sentence a Boston Municipal Court judge gave to a convicted gay basher last month, the suspects in an alleged anti-gay assault on two men in Boston’s South End last week were arraigned at the same court.
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The brutal mid-afternoon attack of a transgender woman by a group of youths at a Seattle bus stop Saturday was clearly motivated by hate, Seattle police say, according to Seattle Times.
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