Archive for the ‘Hate Crimes’ Category

Margie M. Palmer -  Editor
(SAN DIEGO)  – According to a report by 10News, a local gay man was attacked outside Baja Betty’s in Hillcrest.  The victim believes the attack to be a hate crime.
At approximately 10P.M. last night, San Diego resident Bronti Kelly was walking past the popular Hillcrest restaurant when he was attacked from [...]

Margie M. Palmer, Editor
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Earlier today in what can only be described as landmark legislation, the U.S. Senate passed the conference report for the FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill by a vote of 68 to 29, sending critical hate crimes legislation to the President’s desk.  On October 8 the U.S. House successfully passed [...]

(BOSTON) Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A Sudbury, Mass., man was charged today in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
 
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI – Boston Field Division, announced today that Tarek Mehanna, 27, of 6 Fairhaven Circle, Sudbury, Mass., [...]

by Wayne Besen, Founder,  TruthWinsOut.org
 
In March, American anti-gay activists traveled to Uganda for a conference that pledged to “wipe out” homosexuality. Seven months later, a draconian bill has been introduced that pledges to make good on this threat. The “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” is so severe that it is designed to shred the spirit and suffocate [...]

Security Video, “a shocking reminder of why hate crimes laws, like the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act, are crucial law enforcement tools for combating violence.”
 
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Days before the United States Senate is set to vote on federal legislation to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from hate violence, a [...]