Saturday, Aug 1, a gunman walked into a gay youth club in Tel Aviv at app. 22:40 pm and
started firing a gun indiscriminately at the teenagers who were there. Twelve were injured, four of them in critical condition, and two were instantly killed.
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posted by alona
on Aug 3, 2009 -
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Ten years ago today gay college student
Matthew Shepard died after
having been savagely beaten, left alone for 18-hours and found tied to a fence five days prior on the outskirts of
Laramie, Wyoming. America was stunned by the vicious
hate crime. As his mother,
Judy, pushes for passage of the
Matthew Shepard Act, advocating for federal hate crimes legislation, and directs the
Matthew Shepard Foundation, folks in Laramie ask: "...
how has the town changed since 1998? ...how do we measure that change?" And yet 10 years after Matthew's death the
1969 United States federal hate-crime law has not been expanded to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability
due to a veto threat by President Bush.
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posted by ericb
on Oct 12, 2008 -
170 comments
Return to Crothersville:
Aaron Hall probably wasn't gay, but
his murder in April has become an argument for passage of the
Matthew Shepard Act, which would add attacks based on a victim's perceived sexual orientation to the list of federal hate crimes. The men accused of Aaron's murder are invoking the
"gay panic" defense. A citizen journalist at the Bloomington Alternative has published
a
fascinating article on her investigation of the circumstances of the crime and of Aaron's life, and why uncovering the truth in a place like Crothersville, where the social network is so tight-knit and there's
no local hate crimes law, requires an outside (federal) investigation.
posted by thirteenkiller
on Jun 20, 2007 -
168 comments
Recently released FBI hate-crime statistics for 1999 show that - as many have feared - enforcement of hate-crime laws is skewed against blacks. Of racially-motivated where the offenders race is known, blacks make up 20% of the reported incidents despite representing only 13% of the population as a whole.
posted by mikewas
on Feb 16, 2001 -
16 comments
The obvious next step has been taken: An Oregon state senator
introduces a bill that will expand the definition of hate crimes to include ecoterrorism and illegal actions motivated by anticapitalism. Block a street, go to jail?
posted by aaron
on Feb 13, 2001 -
48 comments