Both Queerty and Bilerico have commented on a WND story about a challenge next week to the new hate crimes legislation signed by Obama on Oct. 27. They say anti-gay activists are attempting to call for violence against LGBT people. I think the plan is much simpler and less sinister, but all the more susceptible [...]
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Virginia Foxx’s backlash: How wrong I was
I spoke to Mark Binker at The News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.) on Wednesday regarding Rep. Virginia Foxx’s “hoax” comments regarding Matthew Shepard. Speaking about her district, I said:
“She’s not going to have any blow-back there,” Comer said. “More than likely, there will be a lot of people who agree with her.” Most of the [...]
Film about 18-year-old NC hate crime gets mainstream press
Back in March, Q-Notes featured a piece about a new film project in Wilmington, N.C., documenting an 18-year-old murder many have said is a hate crime.
The film project got some mainstream press cred over the holiday break.
From The Wilmington Star News:
A brutal 18-year-old murder drew new attention in 2008.
In February, St. Jude’s Metropolitan Community Church [...]
D.C. activists issue action alart on increasing anti-gay violence
The Washington, D.C. GLBT Anti-Violence Task Force, or GLOV (Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence), has issued an action alert on the continued rash of anti-gay violence in the nation’s capital.
From HRC Back Story:
Today Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), a program of The DC Center, sent a letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty to request an [...]
Black in a white neighborhood
A man in rural Hollywood, S.C. – a town near Charleston – claims he and his family are being targeted for being black in a white neighborhood:
Clifford Washington asked his wife to stop taking walks down their country road after the day someone shouted the N-word at her.Soon after that incident two years ago, Washington [...]
What’s wrong with Kansas?
My attention was drawn to an article from a Kansas TV station this morning while browsing The Washington Blade’s website. A teen in a small town of about 800 people was severely beaten inside his home by a classmate who had heard rumors he was gay. The rumor was false. The perpetrator also had with [...]
Raleigh safer than D.C.?
Yeah… a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.’s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ago, having lived in Boston [...]
Ellen Speaks Out
With more composure than I could probably muster, Ellen reminds her viewers that something is terribly wrong. “It starts with jokes, becomes verbal abuse, becomes physical abuse and then Brandon kills his fellow eighth grade classmate just because Larry is gay.”
Thanks NG for the tip.
Hillary: ‘Deeply saddened’ at Lawrence King hate murder
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) issued the following statement regarding the memorials planned for openly gay, 15-year-old hate crime murder victim Lawrence King:
“I was deeply saddened by the recent death of 15-year-old Lawrence King who was killed at his school in Oxnard , CA . No one should face intimidation or violence, particularly at [...]
