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Meta Disables Far-Right Republican's Instagram After Months of Antigay Slurs

“It is unfortunate that it took Meta months, and multiple high-profile posts with anti-LGBTQ slurs and hate, to finally make good on fully enforcing its own hate speech policies for accounts like this,” GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis said, responding to Valentina Gomez's account being disabled.

Meta has disabled the Instagram account of Valentina Gomez, a far-right former Republican candidate for Missouri Secretary of State, after months of posting antigay slurs, hate speech, and violent rhetoric. Gomez’s account, which had amassed around 90,000 followers, was taken down in Sept 2024 following repeated reports from advocacy organizations like GLAAD.  The suspension came after a series of videos in which Gomez repeatedly used an antigay slur. “I can confirm that, due to frequent and repeated violations of Meta’s hate speech policies, we have disabled this account,” a Meta spokesperson announced.

Meta Disables Far-Right Republican's Instagram After Months of Antigay Slurs
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Gomez had been flagged numerous times for violating Meta’s hate speech policies. Between August and September, she posted at least 14 videos and comments containing slurs and inflammatory remarks against the LGBTQ community. Despite these clear violations, Meta had been slow to act, allowing her content to remain live for extended periods. Her suspension follows pressure from LGBTQ advocates and her growing reputation for using social media as a platform to spread hateful rhetoric.

Gomez’s posts frequently targeted the LGBTQ community, transgender people, WNBA star Brittney Griner, and other pro-LGBTQ public figures. In one widely condemned video, she burned LGBTQ-themed books with a flamethrower, declaring that such books should be destroyed to “protect children from groomers.” This language mirrors a baseless and harmful conspiracy theory that extremists often use to target the LGBTQ community.

In another video, she said, “Don’t be weak and gay.”  Her incendiary language also included slurs against LGBTQ athletes. In a recent video, she advocated for the creation of a separate “faggot category” in Olympic sports, disparaging transgender athletes in the process. In another post, Gomez referred to herself as “one of the most feared, respected, and loved women in American politics,” adding, “I put the fear of God in pedophiles, groomers, and corrupt politicians.”

GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis criticized Meta for delayed action. “As part of our work to actively monitor accounts that spread anti-LGBTQ hate and misinformation, GLAAD has been urging Meta to address Valentina Gomez’s constant posting of hate, slurs, and threats of violence for months,” Ellis said. She added that platforms like X, Squarespace, and WordPress had previously taken steps to suspend or demonetize Gomez’s accounts, yet Meta had only now begun enforcing its hate speech policies. “Slow action, or at times no action at all, emboldens anti-LGBTQ activists to post increasingly extreme violent and dehumanizing content with the intent of inciting violence and hatred against our community,” Ellis warned.

“It is unfortunate that it took Meta months, and multiple high-profile posts with anti-LGBTQ slurs and hate, to finally make good on fully enforcing its own hate speech policies for accounts like this,” Ellis said. “Hopefully this latest action is a sign that Meta will prioritize enforcing its policies when it comes to disgusting lies, slurs, and calls for violence against our community.”

[Source: Christopher Wiggins, Advocate Magazine, Sept 2024]

Meta Disables Far-Right Republican's Instagram After Months of Antigay Slurs
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Arrested: Christian Website Writer Who Threatened to Slaughter LGBTQ People

Adam Michael Nettina admitted to targeting the Human Rights Campaign because it is an LGBTQ organization

A former writer for a conservative political advocacy group’s website has pleaded guilty to making threats against the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). “We’ll cut your throats. We’ll put a bullet in your head,” he said in a voicemail left with HRC.

In a press release in August 2023, the Justice Department said that 34-year-old Adam Michael Nettina of West Friendship, Maryland, pleaded guilty in a US District Court in Baltimore to a federal crime for using a telephone to threaten the Washington, DC-based LGBTQ advocacy group. According to court documents, the HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, received a threatening voicemail from Nettina. In his message, Nettina referenced the March 2023 mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in which a 28-year-old shooter, who was reportedly transgender, killed six people, including three children.

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In the wake of the shooting, conservative commentators and Republican politicians used the shooter’s possible gender identity to further stoke animus against the transgender community. “You guys going to shoot up our schools now? Is that how it’s going to be?” Nettina reportedly said in the voicemail. “Let me tell you something, we’re waiting, we’re waiting. And if you want a war, we’ll have a war. And we’ll fucking slaughter you back. We’ll cut your throats. We’ll put a bullet in your head. You’re going to kill us? We’re going to kill you ten times more in full.”

Nettina faces up to five years in prison for interstate communications with a threat to injure. “Bias-motivated threats of violence terrorize entire communities and have no place in our society,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “We will not stand by idly when the LGBTQI community faces bias-motivated threats of violence. The Justice Department will continue to investigate and prosecute individuals who commit unlawful acts of hate in our country.”

Luis Quesada, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigation Division, said the bureau would not tolerate acts of hate and remains committed to investigating civil rights violations. “The defendant in this case attempted to terrorize the LGBTQ community by calling in multiple threats of violence to a local advocacy group,” Quesada said.

“You have the right to your own opinions, but you don’t have the right to threaten the lives of those who disagree with you,” Erek L. Barron, US Attorney for the District of Maryland, said. “We’ll continue prosecuting these threats to the fullest extent of the law.”

Following Nettina’s arrest, it was reported that he had worked as an independent contractor for the conservative non-profit political advocacy group CatholicVote, where he published multiple anti-LGBTQ articles since 2016. Nettina’s articles have since been removed from the group’s website.

[Source: John Russell, LGBTQ Nation, August 2023]

Gunman Kills 5 at Gay Nightclub

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A shooting targeting the LGBTQ community is not a random aberration that Republicans are trying to make sense of. It is more like a GOP campaign promise fulfilled; their hateful rhetoric and repeated verbal attacks coming to life. When you continually label queer people as predators, when you repeatedly accuse teachers of being groomers, when you declare drag shows and gay clubs as societal threats,
when you intentionally target transgender children and their parents, when you perpetually traffic in irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric designed to generate irrational fear of LGBTQ people—hate crimes like the one in Colorado are the logical progression.

-John Pavlovitz | When Republicans Lament the Hate Crimes They Help Create
 

The shooting brought back memories of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. And it occurred in a state that has experienced several notorious mass killings, including at Columbine High School in 1999, a movie theater in suburban Denver in 2012 and at a Boulder supermarket last year. It was the sixth mass killing this month and came in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Club Q is a gay and lesbian nightclub that features a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays. Drag events have become a focus of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and protests in recent months as opponents, including politicians, have proposed banning children from such events and falsely claim they’re being used to “groom” children.

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Club Q Owner Says Politicians Have Pushed LGBTQ Hate To New Level

"These are the people we need to center. These are the people we need to keep in our hearts. These are the people whose families need us.  These are the people we need to remember.  And remember: Until we call out the anti-trans rhetoric, the anti-LGBTQ legislation, the book bans and the so-called “don’t say gay” laws, the misinformation and disinformation, and the badly covered stories in the media, this violence will continue."
-PFLAG National

Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said. The FBI said it was assisting but said the police department was leading the investigation.
 

President Joe Biden said that while the motive for the shootings was not yet clear, “we know that the LGBTQ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years. Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence. Yet it happens far too often,” he said. “We must drive out the inequities that contribute to violence against LGBTQ people. We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected governor in 2018, called the shooting “sickening.”

A makeshift memorial sprang up Sunday near the club, with flowers, a stuffed animal and candles in front of cardboard sign with the message, “Love over hate” next to a rainbow-colored heart.

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Incidents of Hate

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that over 800 hate incidents occurred since the election of Donald Trump
 

Two reports were released by the Southern Poverty Law Center, in December 2016, during a press conference in Washington, DC, that document how President-elect Donald Trump’s own words have sparked hate incidents across the country and are having a profoundly negative effect on the nation’s schools.

In the report, Ten Days After, SPLC documented 867 bias-related incidents in the 10 days following the presidential election. Among them: multiple reports of black children being told to ride in the back of school buses; the words "Trump Nation" and "Whites Only" being painted on a church with a large immigrant population; and an elderly gay man being pulled from his car and beaten by an assailant who said the "president says we can kill all you faggots now."

In a second report, After the Election: The Trump Effect, SPLC's Teaching Tolerance project details the findings of an online survey of more than 10,000 educators since the election. Ninety percent reported that their school's climate has been negatively affected, and 80 percent described heightened anxiety and concern among minority students worried about the impact of the election on their families.

At the press conference, SPLC President Richard Cohen was joined by other human rights and education leaders in calling on President Trump to take responsibility for his actions and to repair the damage he has caused.

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Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes On the Rise

Disturbing data from the FBI

Hate crime murders in the US reached a 27-year high last year, according to new data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and hate crimes targeting LGBTQ people rose by 6% in 2018 over 2017.

The 24 hate crime murders that occurred in 2018 mark their highest occurrence since the FBI began tracking and reporting hate crimes in 1991. While the number of overall hate crimes dropped slightly from 7,175 in 2017 to 7,036 in 2018, they remain high. Even more troubling: the number of actual hate crimes and murders that occurred in the US is likely to be much higher, due to under-reporting.

Among the 7,036 “single-bias hate crimes” reported in 2018 (that is, hate crimes in which a single perceived characteristic motivated the attacker) 16.7% happened due to sexual orientation bias and 2.2% occurred due to gender identity bias. An additional 59.6% occurred due to racism and 18.7% were motivated by religious-bias. These 7,036 single-biased hate crimes affected 8,646 victims total.

Of the 1,445 victims targeted due to sexual-orientation: 59.7 % were targeted for being gay men, 12.2% were targeted for being lesbian women, and 1.5% were targeted for being bisexual. Another 24.9% targeted LGBTQ people generally without listing a specific identity.
 

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Of the 189 victims targeted for gender-identity, 160 were victims of anti-transgender bias and 29 were victims of anti-gender non-conforming (GNC) bias. This is an increase over the 131 reported anti-transgender or anti-GNC hate crimes in 2017.

[Source: Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, November 2019]

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Hate Crimes Defined

To harm, intimidate, and terrify

A hate crime is any crime which is targeted at an individual due to prejudice or hatred towards the individual’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religious belief, disability, language, gender, gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation. A hate crime can be committed against an individual, an institution, a business or even society. It’s committed to harm, intimidate or terrify the targeted individual as well as the individual’s group. In hate crimes, the victims have done nothing to warrant such acts of crime, except for the fact that they are who they are.

Violent crime has been declining throughout the United States in recent years, yet hate crimes against LGBTQ people continue to rise. In 1997, at least 18 lives were lost as a result of anti-LGBTQ violence. There were a total of 1,375 reported violent crimes against LGBTQ individuals. Further the societal costs of hate crimes, in terms of self-esteem, productivity, and public expense, are incalculable.

Hate crimes send a message that certain groups of us are not welcome and unsafe in a particular community. As a result, studies indicate that hate crimes appear to have more serious psychological effects on the victims and the communities they represent than do other crimes. Research indicates that victims of hate crimes often link their vulnerability to their personal, cultural, or spiritual identity. The result is that victims of hate crimes often suffer greater emotional trauma than other crime victims.

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Info: Critical Incidents

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Jerry Falwell: Disciple of Hate

Agent of Intolerance... Founder of the Anti-Gay Industry...

Jerry Falwell (1933-2007) was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, a conservative political commentator. And a prolific disciple of bigotry, hatred, ignorance and evil.
 

Falwell was born in Virginia. His father was an agnostic bootlegger and his grandfather a staunch atheist. During the 1950s and 1960s Falwell spoke and campaigned against the civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. and the racial desegregation of public school systems by the US federal government.
 

In 1967 Falwell opened the Liberty Christian Academy as a segregation academy, described in 1966 by the Lynchburg News as "a private school for white students."  What brought Falwell and other white evangelicals into common cause with political conservatives was a ruling issued in 1978 by the IRS of the Jimmy Carter administration, stripping tax-exempt status from all-white private schools formed in the South in reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education mandate to desegregate public schools.

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On his evangelist radio program The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the mid-1960s Falwell regularly featured segregationist politicians like Lester Maddox and George Wallace, and condemned Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders.
 

Falwell also condemned homosexuality as forbidden by the Bible. Gay rights groups called Falwell an "agent of intolerance" and "the founder of the anti-gay industry" for statements he had made and for campaigning against LGBTQ social movements.  "I believe that homosexuality is moral perversion," Falwell said. "I think it is a violation of the laws of nature and the laws of God."
 

Falwell supported Anita Bryant's 1977 "Save Our Children" campaign to overturn a Florida ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and a similar movement in California.

A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell gained national attention in 1979, when he launched an organization he presumptuously called the Moral Majority. Critics liked to say that it was neither. What is undisputed is that the Moral Majority became the vehicle that carried millions of evangelical Christians out of their separatist tendencies and into the center of political activism. Thus was born the "religious right," a toxic mix of fundamentalist Christians and ring-wing political activists. It was, and still is, a movement of hate and bigotry billed as pro-life, pro-traditional family, pro-moral, and pro-American.

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After comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian, Falwell referred to her in a sermon as "Ellen DeGenerate". DeGeneres mocked him, saying, "Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work."

In February 1999, Falwell published an article in the National Liberty Journal—a promotional publication of his university—claiming that the purple Teletubby named Tinky Winky was intended as a gay role model because "he is purple, the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle, the gay-pride symbol". The immensely popular show was aimed at pre-school children, but the article stated that apart from those characteristics Tinky Winky also carries a magic bag which was a purse. Falwell added that "role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children".

After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat Robertson's The 700 Club, "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, the feminists, the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen."

On the morning of 15 May 2007 Falwell was found without pulse and unconscious in his office and was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 73 years old.
 

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Angie Zapata: Transgender Martyr

Angie Zapata (1989–2008) was an American transgender woman beaten to death in Greeley, Colorado. Her killer, Allen Andrade, was convicted of first-degree murder and committing a hate crime, because he murdered her after learning she was transgender. The case was the first in the nation to get a conviction for a hate crime involving a transgender victim.

Angie was born in Brighton, Colorado, and given the name Justin David Zapata. She had three sisters and an older brother who was gay.
From an early age, Angie was feminine and expressed an attraction to boys. In middle school, Angie disclosed her female gender identity to family and close friends. She adopted the name "Angie" when presenting as female, retaining the name Justin in public. At the age of 16, Angie began living full-time as a woman. Her family was supportive, although her mother worried for her safety.

Angie was 18 when she met Allen Andrade (age 31 at the time) and they spent nearly three days together, during which they had a sexual encounter. Andrade later discovered that Angie was transgender.  Subsequently, he began beating her—first with his fists and then with a fire extinguisher—until she was dead. In the arrest affidavit, Andrade said he thought he had "killed it" before leaving in Angie's car with the murder weapon and other incriminating evidence.

The possibility of prosecuting the case as a hate crime was pressed by Angie's family. During the trial, the jury heard jailhouse conversations in which Andrade told a girlfriend that "gay things must die."  Andrade was found guilty of first degree murder, hate crimes, aggravated motor vehicle theft, and identity theft. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.  Because Andrade had six prior felony convictions, the judge dubbed him a "habitual criminal" at his May 8, 2009 sentencing trial for the hate crime and theft convictions. This added additional 60 years to his sentence.

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Hate Groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center (Intelligence Project) monitors the activities of hate groups throughout the United States. Listed here is a sampling of hate groups, including anti-gay organizations.

Abiding Truth Ministries
Alliance Defending Freedom

American Vision

American Family Association

American Freedom Party

America's Promise Ministries
Chalcedon Foundation
Council of Conservative Citizens

Family Research Council
Ku Klux Klan

Liberty Council

Mass Resistance
Traditional Values Coalition
Watchmen on the Walls
Westboro Baptist Church

Southern Poverty Law Center

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Gay Dad Describes Homophobe's Terrifying Attack on His Family

Please help us protect our families... We feel so outnumbered and tired

A gay dad took to social media to describe the vitriolic anti-gay rhetoric a stranger accosted him and his family with on an Amtrak train, and the way the encounter traumatized his children. The furious father also detailed how the stranger had accosted his 6-year-old son in the restroom.

Robbie Pierce, his husband, and their kids were en route to enjoy a family holiday when the stranger suddenly appeared near their seats and began screaming at them, according to a thread Pierce posted.  Addressing the couple's 6-year-old boy, the stranger shouted, "Remember what I told you. They stole you. They're pedophiles," Pierce recounted.

Pierce described how his fatherly instincts took over, propelling him as he placed himself between his small children and the aggressor.  Noting that his son's "life has already been so hard" and how the boy "carries traumas larger than his whole small, fierce frame," Pierce related that he told the intruder, "Get away from my family."

But the hate-filled harangue continued. "Family!? That's not a family!" the verbal assailant shouted, according to Pierce's recollection. "You're rapists. You steal black and Asian kids."

"My son and my 5 year old daughter were both now openly crying, petrified," Pierce related. But the attacker kept right on terrifying the children, screaming at them, "These guys aren't natural. Homosexuals are an abomination. They steal and rape kids."

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SPLC: List of Hate Groups

Pierce drew a direct link between the stranger's hideous tirade and the legislative attacks that GOP state lawmakers across the country have launched, targeting LGBTQ youth and their families. "We all know where that comes from," Pierce posted. "So thanks to Fox and Murdoch, JK Rowling and Marjorie Taylor Green, to the senators and priests and everyone else who harms kids and thinks it's politically expedient to project onto gentle families like mine to stir up their lucrative culture war."

The successful efforts of Florida lawmakers to pass the "Don't Say Gay" law, which criminalizes classroom discussion of LGBTQ issues, has spawned a strategy in which supporters of anti-gay bills smear anyone who objects to such laws as "pedophiles" who "groom" children. "We've dealt with this brand of terrifying homophobic stranger before with our son," Pierce detailed. "But 'pedophiles' and 'rapists' were new in the mix, at least out loud."

Speaking about the ordeal, Pierce noted how the attacker "just seemed like he came preloaded with catch phrases from Fox News or DeSantis, or whoever was out there."

Pierce and his husband coordinated efforts to protect their children; as his husband "shouted the man away from us," Pierce shepherded the kids away from the danger and into another train car. The attacker "lost his focus on us" when a conductor showed up to intervene, Pierce recounted, going on to add that the terrified children "cried for almost an hour."

The trauma wasn't resolved so quickly, though. Pierce told the New Civil Rights Movement that the children were so deeply upset that they "woke up crying" in the night, and at "4:30 in the morning, the two dads' 6-year-old boy started to throw up."

Pierce documented one of the most horrifying details of the entire ordeal: The way the man accosted their son when the boy went to the restroom.

"Yet, somehow WE are the groomers," the appalled family man wrote in exasperation. Near the end of his thread, Pierce posted that the children "asked if we'll see that man again and I said probably not him, but men just like him. But we'll be stronger each time. And most people aren't like that guy. I hope this was true."

"Please help us protect our families, friends," Pierce added. "We feel so outnumbered and tired."

[Source: Kilian Melloy, Edge Media Network, April 2022]
 

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Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked in London
 

Disgusting, misogynistic attack

Two women in London were attacked in a bus when they refused to kiss for straight men’s viewing pleasure. Melania Geymonat, 28, and her girlfriend Chris were taking a night bus in London in May 2019.

Geymonat reported the incident, saying that she kissed Chris and then four young men started harassing them. The couple and the young men were alone together in the top level of the bus. “They started behaving like hooligans, demanding that we kissed so they could enjoy watching, calling us ‘lesbians’ and describing sexual positions,” she said. “I don’t remember the whole episode, but the word ‘scissors’ stuck in my mind.” She said that she started making jokes, hoping to break the tension and to get the men to go away, but they didn’t. Instead, they started throwing coins at the women.

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“The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them,” Geymonat said. “On an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up.” The men started punching her, and she may have lost consciousness. She said that before she realized what happened, police were on the bus and she was bleeding. She found that their phone and bag had been taken. Both victims were taken to the hospital for treatment.

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, denounced the attack, saying, “This was a disgusting, misogynistic attack,” he wrote. “Hate crimes against the LGBTQ community will not be tolerated in London.”

“I’m tired of being taken as a sexual object,” Geymonat stated. “We have to endure verbal harassment and chauvinist, misogynistic, and homophobic violence because when you stand up for yourself shit like this happens.” She said that she wanted to share the picture of her after the attack because “violence has become a common thing” and people don’t pay attention otherwise. “Sometimes it’s necessary to see a woman bleeding after having been punched to feel some kind of impact.”

[Source: LGBTQ Nation, June 2019]

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Confusion and misinformation about bias crimes

The Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity is dedicated to sending out the message that it is unacceptable to victimize someone because of that person’s race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability.

In the aftermath of the horrible torture and murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming on October 6, 1998, a public discussion on the meaning and value of bias crimes laws occupies talk shows, newspapers, and dining room tables. Unfortunately, too often the discussion is based on misinformation. Ironically, in some cases the confusion about bias crimes laws is itself used to promote a hate filled agenda. A society that is committed to equity and justice must focus this important bias crimes discussion on fact, not myth.

Myth: All crimes involve hate. Hate crimes laws are redundant and unnecessary.

Fact: The crimes in question are accurately identified as “bias crimes." The term “hate crimes” is misleading unless it is used with a clarifying addition, “hate crimes motivated by bias.” A bias crime is an act that is motivated by the perpetrator’s bias against the group to which the victim belongs. Obviously, not all crimes that involve hate are included in this definition of a bias crime.
 

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Myth: Bias crimes laws violate free speech rights by criminalizing thoughts and beliefs.

Fact: Bias crimes laws criminalize the action that is motivated by bias, not the bias isolated from the action. The US Supreme Court defined the perimeters of bias crimes laws in relation to free speech issues in two decisions in 1992.

Myth: A murder is a murder. A murder committed out of bias is no different from other murders.

Fact: Not all murders are treated equally in criminal law. The difference between first degree murder and second degree murder, for example, is the intent of the perpetrator. Society has determined in its laws that the intent of the perpetrator changes the nature of the crime committed and therefore a different penalty is appropriate. Enhancing the penalty for a crime involving bias reflects the fact that the harm done by an assault motivated by bias is more serious than the harm from an assault itself.

Myth: An assault committed against a Caucasian person is as serious as one committed against an African-American person. Bias crime laws say one is more serious than the other.

Fact: The crimes are equally serious if in both cases assault is all that is involved. However, if the assault is a bias crime, additional harm is done. First, bias crimes tend to be more violent. Moreover, the harm done to the victim is deeper. The attack is aimed at the very identity of a person, wounding the spirit as well as the body. Second, the effect of fear and intimidation is long lasting. Bias crime victims frequently change their daily patterns of action and sometimes even their residence out of fear. The aftermath of the crime thereby often affects the victim economically. Third, a bias crime intimidates the whole community to which the victim belongs. Finally, bias crimes drive wedges between groups of people and thereby have a serious societal impact.

Myth: Bias crimes laws grant special rights to certain groups.

Fact: Bias crimes laws identify certain categories such as race, not specific communities of people such as Native American. The Bias Crime Law in Washington State, for example, identifies the categories of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation and physical, mental or sensory handicap. The law does not identify specific groups within those categories such as African- Americans, Jewish people, or gays and lesbians. Indeed, bias crime charges have been filed in cases where the victim was white. Bias crimes laws increase the penalty not because of the race etc. of the victim, but because of the bias of the perpetrator. Hence, if a straight man is attacked because the perpetrator perceives him to be gay, the bias crime law may apply.
 

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Myth: Bias crime laws are promoted to further the agenda of certain groups.

Fact: The laws protect everyone within the defined categories: white as well as black, Christian as well as Jew, straight as well as gay. The “special rights” and “gay agenda” attacks of the extreme religious right are dishonest attempts to utilize misinformation and confusion to further their own homophobic agenda. Would a bias crimes law in Wyoming have stopped the perpetrators from killing Matthew Shepard? Probably not. But neither do laws criminalizing robbery stop all robbers. We need inclusive bias crimes laws that are clearly understood and resolutely enforced. Such action sends a loud message that it is unacceptable to victimize someone because of that person’s race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. Bias crime law convictions bring justice which helps the healing process for the survivors of the crime, including the community to which the victim belonged. The confusion and misinformation about bias crimes must be cleared up so that we can focus on the real problem, namely, the prejudice and bigotry that gives rise to bias crimes.

[Source: Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity]

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Anti-LGBTQ Hate Speech

Public expressions of hostility

Hate crime is any form of crime targeting people because of their actual or perceived belonging to a particular group. The crimes can manifest in a variety of forms: physical and psychological intimidation, blackmail, property damage, aggression and violence, rape, and murder.

Hate speech is public expressions which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred, discrimination or hostility towards a specific group. They contribute to a general climate of intolerance which in turn makes attacks more probable against those given groups.

Homophobic hate crime and hate speech is violence and speech and/or aggression towards LGBTQ people due to their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and/or sex characteristics. It includes homophobic and transphobic hate crime and hate speech.

Why is it important to focus on hate crime and hate speech against LGBTQ people? LGBTQ people fear violence and hate everywhere they go. LGBTQ individuals experience physical/sexual violence or threats on a daily basis.

In general, hate crime and hate speech aim to undermine the dignity and value of a human being belonging to a particular social group – based on their skin color, ethnicity, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. On a wider scale, it sends a negative message to LGBTQ communities, their supporters and rest of the society. It implies that a particular social group does not deserve recognition, respect, equality and tries to legitimize attacks on members of that group.

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LGBTQ people hear hate speech (hurtful comments) at every turn. On the internet (cyberbullying on social media), in the classroom, on campus, in the workplace, on the bus, and in the neighborhood. Hate speech against LGBTQ people can be heard from the media, teachers, politicians, and preachers. LGBTQ people are victims of hate speech much more frequently than the rest of the population.
 

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and anti-gay speech are themes, catchphrases, and slogans that have been used against homosexuality or other non-heterosexual sexual orientations and to demean lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. They range from the demeaning and pejorative to those expressing negativity on religious, medical, or moral grounds. The rhetoric generally has an ideological basis in heterosexism, and can be motivated by homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

The slogans are not just terms of invective but they represent arguments that are commonly used to convey opposition to LGBTQ rights or to the full acceptance of LGBTQ people. Such themes align homosexuality with sinfulness, immorality, unnatural desires, child abuse, unhealthy behaviors, and in opposition to traditional family values.  
 

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Puking from the pulpit

In June 2012, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC, condemned President Obama's much publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
 

"Build a great, big, large fence, 150 or 100 mile long, and put all the lesbians in there," Worley suggested. "Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. And you know what, in a few years, they'll die out. Do you know why? They can't reproduce!"

He also said that if he's asked who he'll vote for, he'll reply, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover!" Many of the congregants cheered and replied, "Amen."

Worley added, “It makes me puking sick to think about. I don’t even know whether or not to say this in the pulpit. Can you imagine kissing some man?”

The pastor's comments seem in line with statements made by Ron Baity, founding pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem and head of the anti-marriage equality organization Return America, who told his own congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people should be prosecuted as they were historically, and Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville who advocated parents “punch” their male child if he is effeminate and "crack that wrist" if he is limp-wristed.

Similarly, Tim Rabon, pastor of Raleigh's Beacon Baptist Church, condemned states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland which have already "re-defined" marriage to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples before asking his congregants, "What is stopping them from refining marriage from a person and a beast? We're not far from that."

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Fred Phelps: Minister of Hate

His group maintains that God hates homosexuals

The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist religious organization, founded by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. The church runs numerous websites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews, as well as populations it believes are supporting the aforementioned groups.

The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Although well-known in LGBTQ communities for picketing gay pride events and funerals, the group achieved national notoriety for picketing funeral processions for soldiers killed in action during the Iraq War.

While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations, nor does any Baptist institution recognize the church as a Bible-believing fellowship. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, though mainstream Primitive Baptists condemn Westboro Baptist Church and Phelps. Its first public service was held in November 1955.

The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, “God hates fags”, and expresses the idea, based on biblical verses, that nearly every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality, specifically society’s increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-called “Homosexual Agenda.” The group maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of “sinners” and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.

There is estimated to be no more than 150 members of Westboro Baptist Church, the majority of whom are Fred Phelps' family members (spouses, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren).
 

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Fred Phelps will not be missed by the LGBTQ community

Fred Phelps, the founding pastor of the hateful independent Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests at public events, has died. The 84-year-old died of natural causes on March 19, 2014. Phelps founded Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas in 1955 and molded it in his hate-filled, fire-and-brimstone image. Many members of the small congregation are related to Phelps through blood or marriage.

It is estimated that the church has picketed more than 53,000 events. Typically, a dozen or so church members (including small children) brandished signs that said "God Hates Fags." Phelps was often called "the most hated man in America," a label he seemed to relish. "If I had nobody mad at me," he said, "what right would I have to claim that I was preaching the Gospel?" Under Phelps' leadership, Westboro members have preached that every calamity, from natural disasters to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, is God's punishment for the country's acceptance of homosexuality. Phelps had advocated for gays and lesbians to be put to death.

"Fred Phelps will not be missed by the LGBTQ community, people with HIV/AIDS and the millions of decent people across the world who found what he and his followers do deeply hurtful and offensive," the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said in a statement. Phelps began his hateful anti-gay protests in Wichita in 1991 after complaining that the city refused to stop gay activities in a public park. He rose to national notoriety in 1998, when Westboro members picketed at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming man who was tortured and murdered because he was gay. Phelps and his church carried signs that said Shepard was rotting in hell. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Westboro Baptist Church "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America."

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Defining Hatred

Loathe, detest, abhor, despise...

Hatred or hate is an emotion. It can invoke feelings of animosity, anger, or resentment, which can be directed against certain individuals, groups, entities, objects, behaviors, concepts, or ideas. Hatred is often associated with feelings of anger, disgust and a disposition towards the source of hostility. It is an intense or passionate dislike, contempt, or animosity for something or someone. To hate someone is to loathe, detest, abhor, and despise them.

A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime) generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by hate. Those who commit hate crimes target victims because of their perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, mental disorder, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender identity, or political affiliation. Incidents may involve physical assault, destruction of property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail).

Hate speech is speech (talk, rhetoric, verbiage, language) perceived to disparage a person or group of people based on their social or ethnic group, such as race, sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental disorder, disability, language ability, ideology, social class, occupation, appearance (height, weight, skin color), mental capacity, and any other distinction that might be considered a liability.

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Hate Crimes by Bias Type

--48.5 percent were due to racial prejudice
--19.7 percent were due to religious prejudice
--18.5 percent were due to sexual orientation prejudice
--11.8 percent were due to ethnicity or national origin prejudice
--1.5 percent were due to disability prejudice

Hate Crimes by Activity Type

--45 percent were intimidations
--35.4 percent were simple assaults
--19.1 percent were aggravated assault
--0.5 percent were 8 murders and 9 forcible rapes
 

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--83 percent were classified as acts of vandalism, destruction, and damage
--17 percent were burglary, arson, larceny-theft, robbery, motor vehicle theft, and others

Hate Crimes by Race of Offenders

--62.4 percent were white
--18.5 percent were black
--7.3 percent were groups of multiple races
--1 percent were Native Americans or Native Alaskans
--0.7 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander
--10.1 percent unknown

Hate Crimes by Location

--31.3 percent took place in or near homes
--17.2 percent occurred on alleys, highways, streets or roads
--11.4 percent took place in schools
--6.1 percent happened in garages or parking lots
--4.3 percent occurred in churches, temples, and synagogues
--29.7 percent other locations

[Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009 Report]

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