State Hate Crimes Laws Still Needed

Local and national gay activists are celebrating a new federal hate crimes bill but say South Carolina still needs its own hate crimes law. Read more

Obama Deserves Praise for Signing Hate Crimes Law

As a legally blind lesbian, I celebrated on Oct. 28 when the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Read more

Hate Crimes Act Awaiting Obama’s Signature

The hate crimes act has now passed both the House and Senate. All that is left is for the President to sign it. The new law is the first expansion of civil rights protections since 1968. Read more

Homophobia and Racism in Congress

I’m not sure what I expected, but after reading my Congressman’s response to my email urging him to support GLBT legislation (which I sent before the National Equality March), I’m ticked. Read more

John Boehner’s Blatant Stupidity!

Last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner objected to House passage of a bill that would expand hate crime laws and make it a federal crime to assault people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Read more

Trans Inclusion Urged for NY Hate Crimes Law

Proponents of trans hate crime protections are pressing for a small, but significant, change to New York state law that would extend protections to their community as well as to the rest of the GLBT population. Read more

Modern Day Hitlers

Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for victims. Read more

Immediate Response Needed…PLEASE ACT NOW!

We’ve received word that the House will vote on the Matthew Shepard Act TOMORROW (4/29).

We also know far right groups are flooding Congress with calls, emails and sickening “fact sheets” claiming that sexual orientation means criminal acts like bestiality and necrophilia, and that this bill protects those behaviors. Shame on them. Read more

Lib Dems Back Government on Gay Hate

Free speech has always posed a liberal dilemma. On the one hand, we hold dear the principle that individuals are free to speak their mind, even when it gives offense. Read more

Gay Hate-Crime Murders

I’msorry to have to say that we have had two LGBT, hate crime murders in December and now we have possibly three more. Read more

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