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Hate Crimes Rise Nationwide, Especially Against Gays

Real Jock  4 hours ago

A month after new hate crimes legislation, the FBI reports a sharp rise in anti-gay violence in 2008.
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Benjamin Bratt in LA MISSION at Artivist Festival

Alternative Film Guide  13 hours ago

Peter Bratt’s family drama La Mission, about the relationship between an ex-con (Benjamin Bratt, above) and his gay son (Jeremy Ray Valdez), will open the 2009 edition of the Artivist Film Festival, which runs Dec.
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Serbian President Urged to Speak Out Against Hate

Gay News Bits  14 hours ago

Serbia: Combat Homophobia — President Should Speak Out against Hate Campaign. Serbian President, Boris Tadic is being urged to speak out against hate campagin in Serbia.
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LOCAL NEWS Youth Pride Center member attacked

Google Gay Pride News / Windy City Times  23 hours ago

LOCAL NEWS Youth Pride Center member attackedWindy City TimesAccording to YPC President Frank Walker, it is the fourth time in four weeks that an organization member has been the object of anti-gay violence—and the .
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Video: Borderlands' Zombie Island DLC

GayGamer  less than a day ago

"Kill the dead for Dr. Ned," proclaims the awesome-looking trailer for the new Borderlands DLC, "The Zombie Island of Dr.
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Latest News (Human Rights Watch)

Yahoo Lesbian News  less than a day ago

Homophobic violence in recent months has threatened LGBT people's access to basic freedoms. Leading politicians should show the courage to condemn hatred and prevent abuse.
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Missouri Billboard Calls For Revolution

Joe My God  2 days ago

JMG reader Arthur, who blogs at AmeriNZ tips us to the above billboard just posted along I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri.
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Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado's mother speaks

Bilerico  2 days ago

"When my son told me he was gay, I told him, 'Now, I love you more'. I want to tell the world that hatred is not born with human beings, it is a seed that is planted by adults and is fostered creating a climate of intolerance and violence.
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Video: Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado – tribute to vital, exuberant teen

Qnews  3 days ago

Most of us first heard of 19-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado through news stories about his brutal murder.
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CA Bay Area: Vigil Sunday for Jorge Steven Lopez-Mercado and Jason Mattison Jr.

Bilerico  4 days ago

This Sunday in Oakland, Bay Area queers and allies will gather near Lake Merritt for a candlelight vigil and open mic to mourn Jorge Steven López-Mercado and Jason Mattison Jr.
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Simply Unacceptable

Bilerico  4 days ago

"While we are grateful to the local law enforcement officials for their swift work to apprehend the suspect in this terrible crime, we remain deeply saddened that yet another family should have to suffer the pain of such a tragedy, and that such breathtaking violence continues to be directed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people who are simply trying to live their lives honestly and openly.
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King and Spielberg Hang Out Under The Dome

PopSucker.net  5 days ago

Note to people who live in any of Stephen King's creations: don't live in Maine. If you live in Maine, move somewhere else.
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Glenn Beck's white nationalist fans

Topix Gay News  5 days ago

After an ADL report says Beck may foment violence, Salon's Alexander Zaitchik visits racist Web sites to see if their denizens are listening.
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Today is 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance

Rod Online  5 days ago

Today is the 11th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which hopes to raise awareness around the many who are killed in anti-transgender violence and hate crimes.
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Gordon Brown and equalities minister Maria Eagle mark Transgender Day of Remembrance

Pink News  5 days ago

Prime minister Gordon Brown has made a statement describing violence and harassment against trans people as "utterly unacceptable".
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Queer Maine - a very different anti-marriage postscript

Bilerico  Nov 18 09

When you have fifteen minutes to devote to this, I urge you to have a listen to this articulate anti-assimilationist queer as he constructs an excellent economic reframe of Maine and gives voice to a point of view that was almost entirely stifled during the we-must-have-marriage gay juggernaut in Maine.
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So It Was a Group of Queers Who Vandalized the DADT Billboard?

Queerty  Nov 17 09

If a group of "radical" queers deface a gay billboard, does that count as anti-gay violence? Bash Back, the group of masked LGBTs who defaced DNC headquarters in Colorado, are now claiming credit for defacing an anti-Don't Ask Don't Tell billboard in Memphis.
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Facebook Fails to Enforce Its Rules against Antigay Violence: Part I

Truth Wins Out  Nov 17 09

Truth Wins Out upholds the U.S. First Amendment right of private individuals and organizations to express viewpoints that others may find offensive.
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Honouring The Rage

Topix Gay News  Nov 16 09

As social justice minded people, we may bristle at homophobia, sexism, racism or ableism, however; what we often fail to do is honour the rage, if it manifests in a way that makes us uncomfortable.
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Remembering our dead – Trans Day of Remembrance

Pink News  Nov 16 09

On Saturday November 21st, as part of the 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, trans people, their friends and allies in London will be remembering those who have died during the last year through violence or suicide because they were trans.
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