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Category Archives: Hate Crimes
Do Laws Effectively Deter Anti-LGBT Attacks?
There are some stories that simply leave even the most cynical bloggers and journalists speechless. The brutal attack of a gay Chilean man earlier this month is one of them. Raúl Alfonso López Fuentes, Alejandro Axel Angulo Tapia, Patricio Iván … Continue reading
Posted in Hate Crimes, Puerto Rico, Jose Sucuzhanay, Marcelo Lucero, Jack Price, Jorge Steven López Mercado, Uganda, Chile, David Kato, Daniel Zamudio
Tagged New York City, Marcelo Lucero, José Sucuzhañay, Jorge Steven López Mercado, Puerto Rico, Uganda, Chile, Daniel Zamudio, Jack Price, Hate Crimes, Chrissy Lee Polis, David Kato
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Fortuño Indicates Support for LGBT-Inclusive Hate Crimes Law
Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño indicated to reporters on Friday, Dec. 9, that he supports the island’s current hate crimes law that includes sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. The governor answered questions about the proposed changes to Puerto … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Hate Crimes, LGBT, Luís Fortuño, Puerto Rico
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Human Rights Campaign Again Blasts Proposal to Remove LGBTs from Puerto Rico Hate Crimes Law
The country’s largest LGBT rights organization has once again blasted a proposed provision of Puerto Rico’s new penal code that would eliminate sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and other categories from the island’s hate crimes law. “It would be … Continue reading
Puerto Rico House to Review Proposal to Remove LGBTs from Hate Crimes Law
Puerto Rico House of Representatives President Jenniffer González announced on Monday, Dec. 5, that she would review a proposed provision to the penal code that would remove sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and ethnic ethnicity from the island’s hate … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Hate Crimes, Jenniffer González, LGBT, Liza Fernández, Luis Gutierrez, Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico Lawmakers Move to Remove LGBTs from Hate Crimes Law
Puerto Rican lawmakers are poised to vote on a revised penal code this week that could eliminate LGBT-specific categories from the island’s hate crimes law. The Puerto Rico Senate late last month approved a provision that would eliminate sexual orientation, … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Hate Crimes, LGBT, Puerto Rico
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FBI: Nearly 20 Percent of Reported Hate Crimes in 2010 Motivated By Sexual Orientation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday, Nov. 14, noted that nearly a fifth of all reported hate crime incidents in 2010 were motivated by sexual orientation. Of the 6,624 hate crime incidents that the FBI documented in 2010, 19.3 … Continue reading
Has Anything Changed in Puerto Rico Since Jorge Steven’s Murder?
Today marks the second anniversary of Puerto Rican gay teenager Jorge Steven López Mercado’s brutal murder. Juan José Martínez Matos stabbed Jorge Steven López Mercado to death on Nov. 13, 2009, before he decapitated, dismembered and partially burned his body. … Continue reading
NYPD Identifies Suspect in Anti-Gay Attack in Brooklyn
Police say a 21-year-old man used anti-gay slurs against a man as he sexually assaulted him on a Brooklyn street earlier this month. Julius “Stinky” Wright allegedly approached the 24-year-old man on Myrtle Avenue around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 5. … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn, Hate Crimes, New York City
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NYC Officials Condemn Reported Anti-Gay Attack in Brooklyn
New York City officials late on Friday, Sept. 23, condemned a reported hate crime against a gay man who was walking home in Brooklyn earlier this month. The man was walking in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 5 when … Continue reading
Posted in Albert Vann, Brooklyn, Christine Quinn, Hate Crimes, Marty Markowitz
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Queens man succumbs to injuries after alleged anti-gay attack
Not again! An 18-year-old Queens man died at Jamaica Hospital yesterday after four teenagers beat him in what police said was an anti-gay attack. The Daily News reported four teenagers—Alex Velez, Nolis Ogando, Christopher Lozada and Luis Tabales—attacked Anthony Collao … Continue reading
