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A mid-January assault on a UCLA student by two men who used anti-gay slurs during the attack is part of a rise in anti-gay attacks in LA.

On Oct. 26, Lou Rispoli, 62, died, after suffering a brutal assault at the hands of two men in the early morning hours of Oct. 20 near his home in Sunnyside, a quiet neighborhood in New York City. Police have yet to classify it as a bias crime.

Every year at the end of July, Provincetown welcomes LGBT families for Family Equality Council events. This year, they extended an all-expenses paid trip to one gay Arizona family suffering months of bias harassment.

A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man turned down a plea deal that could have limited his time behind bars to five years or kept him out of prison altogether.

An attack against Taylor Garrett, star of Logo’s gay reality show "The A-List: Dallas," is puportedly an example of gay thuggishness targeting on the GLBT community’s own. But the GLBT online press wonders: Was the "hate crime" faked as a ratings ploy?

Even though Utah’s ambiguous hate crimes law does not include sexual orientation, local officials have condemned the recent spate of attacks against gay men in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.

The African American victim in a Mississippi murder case was targeted because of his race, prosecutors allege -- but he was also gay, new information notes, and the teen who ran him over in a pickup truck reportedly has a history of anti-gay harassment.

A young gay man was attacked and beaten by a gang who taunted him, called him with anti-gay slurs and the female version of his name, and delivered a vicious kick to his face.

An openly gay man was assaulted by a gang of teenagers who shouted homophobic slurs in an early morning attack in Springfield, Massachusetts on June 28.

Last fall when a New York gang called the Latin King Goonies attacked and sodomized a male teen, the nation was shocked. Now, new details have emerged in the case.