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Withers: Party for a hate crime victim

James Withers — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:11:05 +0000

Last month, on February 22, Barie Shortell was walking on a Brooklyn street. It was 10 pm and six teens walked by him. They wondered about his gender and uttered anti-gay slurs.

“I feel(...)

New York LGBT homeless shelter vandalized

logointern2 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:30:30 +0000

The Ali Forney Center’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth was vandalized Wednesday night in Astoria, Queens.

Vandals defaced the shelter with anti-gay slurs. Insults included “We don’t want(...)

Withers: Community alert for the Upper East Side

James Withers — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:51 +0000

Joe.My.God (Happy Fourth Joe!) posted a community alert the Anti-Violence Project issued for the the Upper East Side of New York City. Looks like for the past month there have been a number of(...)

Withers: Ten random thoughts

James Withers — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:52:03 +0000

1. I understand the death of Michael Jackson is big news, but worthy enough to push Iran under the fold?

2. My neighbor is mad because the Mets were swept by the Yankees. Hopefully marching(...)

Vanasco: From prosecution to prevention for hate crimes

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:29:08 +0000

There are five states in the U.S. without a hate crime law.

One of them is Wyoming.

Wyoming, where 10 years ago, Matthew Shepard was robbed, pistol-whipped, tortured, tied to a fence and left to(...)