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Attack in Tulsa highlights lack of coverage for gays under state's Hate Crime protection

''I could hear the hatred in her voice and the way she was talking to me. I could really tell her hatred toward homosexuals.... She had it like a butcher's knife and sawing at my head and I just remember her hand going back and forth, back and forth across my face.''

Brandon Patrick, 23, who says he was attacked this past Saturday outside of his apartment in Tulsa, OK by one man and two women because he is gay. The violent crime, he says, included ''one of the the women ... screaming you gay this, you gay that. You are going to die of AIDS.'' Oklahoma does appear to have a Hate Crimes law but it does not include sexual orientation. (Fox23) (KJRH)


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