Gay Taunts Not
Discrimination Judge Rules
Jan
8: A British Columbia
Supreme Court Judge has ruled that homophobic taunts repeatedly hurled at a
North Vancouver high school student is not discrimination based on sexual
orientation because the victim is not gay. Justice Allan Stewart quashed a 2001
B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling that the North Vancouver school district had
discriminated against Azmi Jubran based on his perceived sexual orientation when
it failed to stop schoolmates who tormented and
assaulted him.
Beach Hate Crime
Condemned
Jan
6: Gay and civil rights
groups denounced the New Year's shooting of a gay man in South Beach as one of
the worst hate-crime attacks in the county in years. Two men, Adrian Miller, 19,
of Long Branch, N.J., and Billy Ledan, 19, of Miami are facing attempted
murder-hate crime charges.
Transvestite Shot;
Men Charged With Hate Crime
Jan
3: Upon learning the object
of his attention was not a woman, a New Jersey man pulled out a gun on South
Beach and shot a transvestite in the shoulder on New Year's Day, police said.
the men propositioned the victim, who told them: ``I think you know what you're
getting into. I'm a man.'' Incensed, one of the men pulled a gun, cursed at the
victim with an antigay slur and fired. [Read Jan 6 & 3
News Articles]
Texas Sets
Execution Date For Gay Man's Killer
Jan
3: A Henry Dunn, 28,
convicted in the gay-bashing murder of Nicholas West, Tyler, Texas, will be put
to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Feb. 6. Dunn and two other men
kidnapped Nicholas West on Nov. 30, 1993. West was forced into a
pickup, driven to a remote gravel pit and shot nine times as the killers took
turns using him for
target practice.
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