All posts tagged "hate crimes"
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Seattle residents targeted in three anti-LGBT attacks over Pride weekend
Amid celebrations commemorating Seattle Pride and the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, Seattle Police are investigating three separate incidents that appear to have targeted the LGBT community. According...
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Laramie passes nondiscrimination laws 17 years after Matthew Shepard’s death
–Jeran Artery, head of Wyoming Equality, speaking with the Associated Press after Laramie City Council approved a law designed to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination....
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Dead: Hate Crimes Bill Fails House Subcommittee
As expected, a bill that would have classified crimes or acts of violence committed against people because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or...
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Virginia’s Hate Crimes Bill Rests in Their Hands
When a Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates committee shuttled a hate crimes bill to a subcommittee on Jan. 15, it was considered a signal by political...
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Virginia Lags Behind on Equality Measures
Flanked by supporters, progressive leaders and legislative allies, Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, held a press conference in the General Assembly House Briefing...
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Va. House Hate Crimes Bill Shuttled to Subcommittee
One day after their Senate counterparts rejected a bill that would have added crimes committed against people because of their real or perceived sexual orientation...
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Hate Crimes Bill Dies in Va. Senate Committee
A bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender identification to the definition of what constitutes a hate crime failed to gain the necessary...
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FBI report: 20% of hate crimes last year had anti-gay bias
While the CIA bears the brunt of news coverage over its use of torture, across town, the FBI has released its annual hate crime report for...
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Obama marks fifth anniversary of hate crimes bill
President Barack Obama marked the fifth anniversary of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act in a statement released Thursday. “Since this...
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Eric Holder’s LGBT-rights legacy
When Eric Holder steps down as attorney general after nearly six years as the nation’s top lawyer, he will leave behind a legacy on LGBT-rights...
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Lanier Hosts Town Hall Meeting
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier, several department heads within MPD, government leaders and community activists from within the LGBT community came together on Tuesday,...
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Hassan Naveed: The Next Generation Awards 2014
Hassan Naveed has always been on the go, whether in terms of geography or activism. Since graduating high school, the California native has done stints...
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GLOV Co-Chair Leaving
The local Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) group, a program of The DC Center and one of the key community partners in combating area...
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GLOV Announces Guardian Award Recipients
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), a program of The DC Center dedicated to preventing and responding to violence against the District's LGBT community, will...
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Gunmen reportedly open fire at Moscow gay club
“Homophobia is policy in Putin’s Russia!” –Spectrum Human Rights, from the Virginia-based human-rights group’s Nov. 16 release advisving that affiliates in Moscow and Russian...
