All Posts Tagged With: "hate crimes"

New survey says most gay people suffer “hate crime”

BBC News Most lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been verbally abused and a third physically attacked, according to a new survey. The statistics from Stonewall Scotland suggested most people did not report the incidents to the police. A quarter of those surveyed said they viewed verbal abuse as part of life as a [...]

23Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Why Hate Crimes Bill May Be Doomed

Ken Klukowski – FOXNews.com The House passed a bill last week aimed at offering federal protection to gay and transgender victims. Is it unconstitutional? Maybe. But either way, it’s a lousy bill. The House has now rammed through a provision making it a hate crime to target gays. Should this provision become law, it’s on [...]

13Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Venezuela ‘silent’ on hate crimes rise

By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months. But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it [...]

3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender murder trial could spark national conversation

reported and written by: Cheryl Preheim and: Dan Boniface WELD COUNTY – The prosecution says it is a hate crime against a transgender woman. The defense is expected to argue it was justified because the accused was misled about the victim’s sexuality. Angie Zapata was 18 years old when she was brutally killed in Greeley [...]

14Apr2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

2 transgender women murdered in Tenn., N.Y.

AMY CAVANAUGH Two recent murders are raising alarm among gay activists about hate crimes and violence targeting transgender people. Duanna Johnson, 43, was killed Nov. 9 in Memphis, Tenn. Johnson, who made headlines in February when police beat her while she was being arrested on a prostitution charge, was in the process of suing the [...]

21Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay equality should be part of nation’s change

In his uplifting victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama told the story of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta and the remarkable changes that have transpired during her lifetime. Born just one generation after slavery, when people like her were barred from voting both because of the color of their skin and their gender, she saw [...]

10Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued