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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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NFL Star Suspended For Gay Slurs

Joe My God  Oct 28 09

Kansas City Chiefs star running back Larry Johnson has apologized for calling reporters "faggots" earlier in the week, but yesterday the team suspended him anyway.
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Gay Rights Group Welcomes Larry Johnson Apology

Google Gay News / Ozarks First  Oct 28 09

CBC.ca Gay Rights Group Welcomes Larry Johnson ApologyOzarks First(Kansas City) -- A gay rights group says it welcomes an apology from Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson for homosexual slurs he directed at .
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GLAAD on Larry Johnson's apology: 'No excuse for using anti-gay epithets'

Google Gay News / USA Today  Oct 28 09

Los Angeles Times GLAAD on Larry Johnson's apology: 'No excuse for using anti-gay epithets'USA TodayA gay advocacy group applauded the apology issued by Chiefs RB Larry Johnson on Tuesday after he used a gay slur addressed at reporters on Monday.
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Florida Gay Basher Arrested, Charged with Hate Crime

Towleroad  Oct 03 09

One of two men who assaulted another man while shouting anti-gay epithets outside the Westend Package Bar in Newberry, Florida, near Gainesville, in early September, has been arrested and charged.
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Canadian Football Hero Wanted in Brutal Gay Bashing

Wicked Gay Blog  Sep 16 09

Alex Myros was, until recently, a player with a Canadian semi-pro American football team, the London Silverbacks; his heroic efforts earlier this year helped save the lives of two children.
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Gainesville-Area Man Assaulted in Homophobic Attack

Towleroad  Sep 11 09

A 31-year-old man was attacked by two men who yelled anti-gay epithets on the night of September 3 outside the Westend Package Bar in Newberry, Florida, the North Florida Herald reports: "The Gainesville man, a 31-year-old white male, was badly.
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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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Item: Anti-gay epithets mar NY holocaust memorial

Qnews  Aug 25 09

   ::: Anti-gay epithets were smeared in chalk on on two stones at Holocaust Memorial Park at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, a New York City borough.
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Street Named for NYC Hate Crime Murder Victim José Sucuzhañay

Towleroad  Aug 06 09

You may remember the December 2008 murder of José Sucuzhañay on the streets of Brooklyn, by two men who yelled anti-Hispanic and anti-gay epithets as Sucuzhañay walked home from a night out drinking with his brother.
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Tuaolo, WAC commish weigh in on ‘fag bomb’

OutSports Jock Talk Blog  Aug 05 09

ESPN’s Outside the Lines did a good job of tackling the issues surrounding gay epithets today in a conversation with (among others) out former NFL player Esera Tuaolo and WAC Athletic Commissioner Karl Benson.
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Gay bashing thrives in Jamaica, homosexuality seen as sin

Gay News Blog  Jul 20 09

Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing, Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes dart, and he seeks refuge indoors.
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Flash for the "Christian' Post: Gay bashing thrives in Jamaica, homosexuality seen as sin

Gay Religion  Jul 20 09

Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing, Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes dart, and he seeks refuge indoors.
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Gays live _ and die _ in fear in Jamaica

Wicked Gay Blog  Jul 19 09

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing, Sherman gets jittery at dusk.
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Warning issued after string of anti-gay attacks in NY’s Upper East Side

Qnews  Jul 05 09

Source: Village Voice, Joe.My.God, WCBS, Gay City News   Joseph Halliday’s wound, suffered in an attack on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was still visible four days later when he read a statement at a July 1 press conference press conference called by NYC Anti-Violence Project photo: Gay City News

New York City police are seeking a group of from four to six young men that they believe are responsible for a string bashings on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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UES Gay Bashing Spree Continues, AVP Issues Community Alert

Joe My God  Jul 03 09

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.
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Three charged in homophobic attack on Long Island

Qnews  Jul 02 09

Two women and one man were arrested Monday in the central Long Island town of Mastic Beach, NY after police say they brutally attacked a woman outside her home while making anti-gay remarks about the victim's sexual orientation.
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Gay pride events mixed with several acts of violence

365 Gay News  Jun 29 09

In addition to the festive events that have occurred throughout pride month across the country were several acts of anti-gay violence and possible vandalism.
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