Sentences with phrase «gay victim of hate crimes»
Above all, there is a single dimension to their protests, as when Marlene McCarty responds to the first Gulf war solely by remembering a soldier as a gay victim of hate crimes.
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If Catholics in San Francisco behaved this way towards gay people, we would be arrested for perpetrating a hate crime... and lets face it, «Freedom of Speech» now is only allowed to gays in our city... while they pretend to be the «victims» of Catholic prejudice.
It was introduced in recognition of National Crime Victims» Rights Week in April as a result of vicious hate crimes, including this year's bias attacks against five elderly Asian Americans in Manhattan and a Mexican man on Staten Island, and last year's vicious beating of gay College Point resident Jack Price.
Despite the crimes» many similarities — the ages of the victims, the fact that they were both gay, the relative proximity and the method in which they were killed — investigators do not believe the murders are related, and do not believe them to be hate crimes, law enforcement sources said.
One in five lesbian and gay people in Britain have been a victim of one or more homophobic hate crime or incident in the last three years.
The study concluded that gays were more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group.
HUTCHINSON: I generally avoid any adult literary fiction that features gay characters because I know they're either going to wind up the victim of a hate crime or with HIV or miserable and alone; they become the object lesson of the story or the death that motivates the protagonist to action.
Even accounting for the fact that gay and lesbians are a disproportionate target for hate crimes, if you assume they make up 10 % of the population (probably a fair estimate) and that all victims of sexual orientation related hate crimes are gays and lesbians (for the same of simplicity), the incidence of hate crimes in the gay and lesbian community is still only 20 hate crimes per 100,000 gays and lesbians, and the incident of violent hate crimes is only 10 per 100,000 gays and lesbians.
«We applaud President Obama for standing up for victims of hate crimes and expanding protections to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community,» said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.