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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Muncie Star-Press , Herald Bulletin MUNCIE -- A gay Ball State University student said he and his friends were attacked in The Village early Friday morning because of their sexuality. "I consider it a hate crime," the student, Kyle Flood, told the Muncie Star-Press . Flood, 21, Indianapolis, suffered a swollen eye, cuts and bruises and a scratched cornea that required treatment at Ball Memorial Hospital. No arrests had been made as of Monday. Ball State University Police Chief Gene Burton said attacks on gay students were rare. "Let me put it this way, I've seen it before...
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Sunday, May 11
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Source: Southern Voice , Associated Press via WTVM Montgomery, Ala. -- LGBT advocates expressed both surprise and delight when the Alabama House on Tuesday passed a bill that would expand the state's existing hate crimes law to cover crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation. "It is a very happy day to be gay in Alabama," Danny Upton, executive director of Equality Alabama. "I'm just almost speechless," he told Atlanta's Southern Voice . "This is something that people told us could never happen." But, if the House vote was unexpected...
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Friday, May 09
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Ventura County Star King shooting The arraignment of Brandon McInerney, accused of the fatal shooting an Oxnard schoolmate, was postponed again Thursday and rescheduled for June. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee granted the delay requested by McInerney's lawyer, William Quest, Ventura County senior deputy public defender. The 14-year-old from Oxnard is set to be tried as an adult in the classroom killing of Larry King, a 15-year-old who sometimes wore lipstick and told friends he was gay. Earlier, Quest said in an interview that he is working on a...
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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Star-Ledger , Secaucus Reporter A gay couple in Secaucus, New Jersey was awakened at about 1 am in April, 2004 by the sound of raucous partying at the firehouse next door to their house. When one of the men asked the firefighters to keep it down, they responded with outrage, according to a civil suit filed by the couple which is being tried this week in a Jersey City courtroom. When Timothy Carter returned to the house after asking the firefighters to quiet down, a drunken mob banged on the side of the house and loudly threatened to kill the men and their dogs, according to the couple....
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Jeffersonville News and Tribune , Louisville Courier-Journal Floyd, Indiana -- The remains of an unidentified man who was buried 13 years ago after he was found dead near an Indiana interstate highway were exhumed yesterday in an effort to determine if he may have been the victim of a serial killer. In September 1995, hunters discovered the remains of a man, likely in his 40s, in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, said Floyd County Sheriff’s Department Detective Capt. Jeff Topping at a Monday news conference. The remains -- which were estimated to have been there for between four and 12 weeks -- were...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Washington Blade , Associated Press via Newsday Two teens charged with murder in the slaying of three college students in a Newark schoolyard last summer made their first appearance in adult court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty. If convicted, the youths and four other suspects could get life terms for the execution-style shootings that brought outrage and scrutiny to a city struggling to shake its reputation for violence. A fourth student survived. One of four college students shot execution style in a Newark, N.J., schoolyard in August 2007, the day before they planned to attend a...
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Sunday, April 20
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Source: Express Gay News , Miami Herald , Bay News 9 Gay American Heroes , the new traveling monument that memorializes gay men and women who have been killed due to homophobic violence, is scheduled to be displayed in the Florida Capitol Rotunda April 28. According to organizers, the exhibit marks the first time a gay-friendly display will be exhibited inside the hall that overlooks the entrance to the chambers of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate. The date of the exhibit, April 28, also marks the birthday of Ryan Skipper, a gay college student who was murdered last year in Polk...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: KESQ TV King shooting Palm Springs, Calif. -- A Coachella Valley high school is taking a stand against violence, hate, and intolerance. People banded together Wednesday night in a vigil to remember a Lawrence King, 15, who was shot and killed in February at his school. Police say the teen was targeted because he was gay. Vigil organizers say bullying and name calling often lead to suicide, fights, and even murder. Students, teachers, and valley organizations are banding together to save lives by creating unity and equality. "We must be people of one heart," David Pelletier of...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Ventura County Star , Lambda Legal press release King shooting A coalition of 27 groups advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is calling for Ventura County prosecutors to try 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in juvenile court, not as an adult. McInerney has been charged as an adult in connection with the Feb. 12 fatal shooting of a classmate, Larry King, at E.O. Green School in Oxnard. According to students, King, 15, might have been targeted because he was openly gay. The coalition of lesbian, gay and other organizations, including Lambda Legal, the National Center...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: Olympian Olympia, Wash. -- The Olympian reports that an assault in the capital city that included anti-gay slurs is not being investigated by Olympia police as a hate crime. Carl Wittenbrink, 22, said he was attacked outside the downtown Olympia YMCA last week. The attacker swung a plastic grocery bag filled with something heavy at Wittenbrink and called him an anti-gay slur while yelling and cursing at him, the victim said. Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said that the attacker would have to indicate that he was motivated to attack Wittenbrink based on his perceptions of Wittenbrink’s sexuality before...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: 13WHAM TV , WHEC TV Rochester, NY -- Police Chief David Moore said four Rochester Police Officers accused of responding inappropriately to an alleged gay bashing attack last June will go back to work Tuesday. The officers were suspended after an internal police investigation into their handling of a reported gay bashing incident. Five people claim they were victims of a hate crime on June 1, 2007 on S. Goodman Street. They claim they were attacked while walking home from a bar because some members of their group are gay. The alleged victims claim the officers who responded to the scene...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Post King shooting [ seaQwa editor's note: The in-depth AP story by Greg Risling summarized here has been carried widely by US and international papers. It finally seems to have given this tragic story wider circulation -- something that's been unaccountably missing in the five weeks since the shooting. The LA Times and other California papers have -- as one can see from the summaries here -- given it extensive coverage while national press mostly ignored the story until now. It is true, as Risling writes here, that "King's death has drawn...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, NY -- A Rochester woman has been acquitted of a felony hate crime charge alleging that she and another woman attacked two lesbians outside a Park Avenue bar. [see Qnews summary ] Monroe County Court jurors late Thursday acquitted Yalidsa Ortiz, 27, of third-degree assault as a hate crime for the alleged attack on June 27, 2006. Ortiz’s lawyer, John L. DeMarco, told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the dispute was motivated by hate. The jury also found Ortiz not guilty...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Associated Press via WBAY TV , AP via Capitol Times MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former University of Wisconsin-Platteville student has settled a civil lawsuit against one of two men who beat him up because he was gay. Brett Timmerman filed a lawsuit in September, 2006 accusing two University of Wisconsin-Platteville students of accosting him outside a restaurant in 2005. His lawsuit, filed in Grant County Circuit Court, sought unspecified damages for emotional distress and attorney fees. According to the lawsuit, Timmerman was an openly gay man who was attending UW-Platteville in 2005. The suit...
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Saturday, March 22
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel King shooting by William Butte "Are you looking at me, you faggot? You know what I do to faggots? I break their necks!" Melbourne Brunner heard this expression of irrationality, fear and hatred just moments before he was attacked by a stranger last month in front of a restaurant on Fort Lauderdale 's toniest street. Brunner's partner had the temerity to say "Good morning" to the would-be assailant when they made eye-contact as he passed by their table. [see Qnews summary ] But Brunner was lucky, so to speak. He survived the assault...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Daily World (Aberdeen/Gray's Harbor) King shooting Aberdeen, Wash. -- An Aberdeen High School senior who threatened a classmate on a MySpace web site will serve seven days in jail for harassment. “You are young,” the judge told Brandon Peterman, “but you’re old enough to know better.” Peterman, 19, pleaded guilty Tuesday to harassment -- a reduced charge from felony malicious harassment -- for an online "joke" threatening to hang a 17-year-old black student. The message included profanity and a racial slur. [see Qnews summary ] District Court Judge Stephen Brown ordered the...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: E! Online , Yahoo News , PageOneQ King shooting "If you think gay teens like Lawrence King are safe in our schools," says Grey's Anatomy's T. R. Knight, "you're wrong." In partnership with GLSEN, LGBT-oriented television network Logo , is airing a public service announcement urging awareness and vigilance against homophobia, transphobia and discrimination in schools. The ad was made in response to the recent murder of openly gay junior high student Lawrence King. The E!Online includes a streaming player showing the ad . "One more murder, one more life...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: Washington Blade King shooting The defining setting for anti-gay violence for the last decade was a rickety fence in a desolate Wyoming field. But a string of anti-gay beatings, shootings and killings in recent months shows that homophobic hatred didn’t disappear when Matthew Shepard was killed 10 years ago this October, nor is it confined to rural pockets of America’s heartland. In the last year alone, young gay people have died at the hands of straight friends in central Florida, been beaten to death after leaving a bar in Greenville, S.C., and assassinated in an eighth grade classroom...
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Sunday, March 09
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Source: Los Angeles Times [seaQwa editor's note: This is the most complete article yet published on the King school shooting and devastating because of its detail. I've included a larger digest than usual, but still recommend reading the complete article in the LA Times . -- REvans ] By Paul Pringle and Catherine Saillant , Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website King shooting For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid. It didn't...
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Thursday, March 06
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Source: YNet News The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced four residents of east Jerusalem to two to eight years in prison Thursday, after they were convicted of the assault and robbery of several young homosexuals in Tel Aviv's old central bus station. According to the indictment, in January 2007, the four scoured the station's area for men seeking to rendezvous with other men, going as far as to place one of them as a decoy. Around 4:30 am, one of the plaintiffs fell for the scam, picked up the man posing as a decoy in his car, and the two made their way to a nearby car park. Once inside...
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Saturday, March 01
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald FORT LAUDERDALE -- As police continue to investigate two possible hate crimes against gay people, mourners, community leaders and activists united Thursday at an emotional vigil to honor the life of a 17-year-old gay teenage youth at the spot where he was killed last week. About 150 people gathered on an empty lot along Fort Lauderdale's Sistrunk Boulevard on Thursday in memory of the boy that most never knew yet felt they needed to honor. Flowers were woven into the wire-mesh fence, and stuffed animals lined the top of it. State and federal...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Huffington Post , AP via San Jose Mercury News , TMZ.com King shooting Ellen Degeneres took a moment on her show Friday to remember 15-year-old Lawrence King. King was shot and killed by a fellow student, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney. King, who was gay, reportedly had asked McInerney to be his Valentine in the days before the shooting. Ellen looked into camera and talked about the murder in Oxnard, Ca. The YouTube clip of the program segment is included at the bottom of this post. Ellen was on the verge of tears as she made a plea to stop the hate "I don't want to be political...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Canadian Press and Canada.com OTTAWA - Gays, lesbians and bisexuals reported higher rates of victimization by violence than heterosexuals in 2004 - including sexual assault, robbery and physical assault. The Statistics Canada study examined victimization rates, perceptions of discrimination, fear of crime and attitudes toward the justice system among gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The odds of being victimized by violence were nearly two times greater for gays and lesbians and 4.5 times greater for bisexuals than they were for heterosexuals. Similar studies have indicated some factors typical...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: Ventura County Star About 200 people participated in a rally Saturday in Oxnard to raise awareness about children's safety after the fatal classroom shooting of 15-year-old Larry King. The Kids First -- Stop the Violence rally was organized by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, the latest of similar events in the wake of the shooting. King shooting "The purpose of the rally is to engage people and help everybody understand that we all share a responsibility in helping our youth become responsible and productive citizens," said Nancy Mayerson, board...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: WSVN TV and South Florida Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Police are searching for a man driven by hate, who beat a gay man and threatened him and his partner, after they finished a meal at an outdoor restaurant. Melbourne Brunner, 37, was eating with his partner at the Floridian restaurant, at 1410 E. Las Olas Blvd., around 3 a.m. when a man walked by their table and started shouting at the two men, said Sgt. Frank Sousa, spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Sousa said the man continued to verbally abuse the two men and made a violent motion with his hands, claiming...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: AP via International Herald Tribune and PinkNews ZAGREB, Croatia : A 25-year-old man has become the first person in Croatia to be convicted of a hate crime and was jailed for 14 months for trying to attack a gay parade with gasoline bombs, a court said Tuesday. Josip Situm was convicted Monday of endangering lives and property under two-year old hate crime legislation after police caught him when preparing to throw the homemade devices at Gay Pride marchers in Zagreb's main square last summer. The court in Zagreb also ordered Situm to undergo psychiatric treatment during his time in...
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Saturday, February 23
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Source: New York Times and Ventura County Star OXNARD, Calif. -- Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime. Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website In recent weeks, the victim, Lawrence King, 15, had said publicly that he was gay, classmates said, enduring harassment from a group of schoolmates, including the 14-year-old boy charged in his death. “God knit Larry together and made him wonderfully complex,” the Rev...
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Saturday, February 23
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Miami Herald FORT LAUDERDALE - The shooting death of a gay teenage boy who was dressed in women's clothing is being investigated as a possible hate crime, while detectives try to determine whether he was targeted because of his sexual orientation. Simmie L. Williams spent much of Thursday looking after his 1-year-old nephew, Jamar. He cooked dinner for his mom and told her he was going out to meet some friends. Denise King said goodbye to her son -- for the last time. Shortly after 1 a.m. Friday, King's daughter received a call from the hospital. Williams...
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Thursday, February 21
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Source: MTV and IndyBay.org Two days before a shotgun-wielding Steven Kazmierczak shot 21 students inside a lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, taking the lives of five people as well as his own, 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King was shot in the head at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California, reportedly for being gay. He was in the eighth grade. King shooting Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a leading gay-rights student organization, has decided to make King's murder one of the central themes of this year's annual Day of Silence...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Los Angeles Times The Goths in their black T-shirts were there. So were the punks with fluorescent hair and multiple piercings. There were even a few adolescent boys carrying skateboards among the nearly 1,000 Oxnard youth and other supporters who turned out Saturday for a hastily organized peace march to pay tribute to Lawrence King , 15, the Oxnard student shot to death in a classroom last week. "Larry, Larry, Larry!" the crowd chanted before marchers clasped hands in a moment of silence for the fallen student. King shooting There were no bullhorns, no speeches and no politicians...
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