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Gay man's gruesome murder sends shockwaves across Puerto Rico

Topix Gay News  Nov 16 09

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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Robert Bellamy Jr. Bashed 2 Guys Because 'God Made Me'

Queerty  Nov 06 09

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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Cops: Suspect said 'God made me hate gay people'

Topix Gay News  Nov 05 09

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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Man Beaten, Run Over in Fatal Toronto Gay Bashing

Wicked Gay Blog  Oct 21 09

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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Fucked Up Priorities of 30 Republican Doods

Fannies Room  Oct 16 09

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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Second suspect in brutal Queens hate crime arrested

Qnews  Oct 14 09

  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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New, Disturbing Video Released of Jack Price Beating

Men of Color  Oct 14 09

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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Mixed Verdict in Trial for South African Lesbian's Death

Topix Gay News  Sep 22 09

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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Police Seek Suspects in Ontario Anti-Gay Bashing with Brick

Wicked Gay Blog  Sep 09 09

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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Attacker convicted in brutal Dallas gay bashing

Qnews  Aug 26 09

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 attack

Bobby 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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Victim takes stand in trial of second man accused of beating, robbing gay man

Yahoo Gay News / Dallas Morning News  Aug 25 09

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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Bombing At Copenhagen Outgames

Joe My God  Jul 29 09

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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Locals Assault Gay Man Outside A-House Bar in Provincetown

Wicked Gay Blog  Jul 27 09

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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A Brutal Gay-Bashing In ptown

Gay News Blog  Jul 26 09

Andrew Sullivan reports: "I was shocked tonight to bump into a new friend, Mark, hobbling down the street.
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Idaho police officer sexually assaults suspect with Taser, gets off with disciplinary action

Pams House blend  Jul 26 09

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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COPS: NYC GAY BASHINGS COULD BE LINKED

Towleroad  Jul 03 09

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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Alleged gay bashers arraigned in Boston Municipal Court

Wicked Gay Blog  Jun 26 09

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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Transgender woman attacked in Seattle; suspect to be charged with ‘hate crime’

Qnews  Jun 11 09

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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