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First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Vail, CO - With the dollar stretched and the constant push and pull of vacation getaway offers advertised on every corner, organizers of gay ski weeks in Colorado at Vail and Telluride are upping the ante to draw in visitors this winter. The producers of Telluride Gay Ski Week 2010 have brought on board the Matthew Shepard Foundation, one of the leading GLBT education, advocacy and awareness...
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Left of the Hill (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... health care. Now today we learn that a group of right-wing religious leaders were protesting the Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, which made it a hate crime to attack someone simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Instead of getting arrested like the planned, however, the Washington Post tells us how the event actually turned out to be beneficial for those who...
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ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Act, granting regulatory power to the FDA to regulate tobacco products and the recent and historic Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, expanding federal hate crime protection to categories of sexual orientation and gender. The new pieces of legislation were all opposed by Republicans, with many conservative lawmakers hotly contesting the expansion of the hate crimes bill. Rob Nabors,...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 68-29 to approve a bill that extends the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is part of a $681 billion military appropriations conference report for fiscal year 2010, and enables the Department of...
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QueerToday.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... received death threats on my car and locker. It was during the fall of the year I transferred that Mathew Shepard was murdered. Like me, a thin effeminate male. My brother commented to my mom that I "could have been that kid." I was lucky enough to escape rural Pennsylvania for college in Boston where I found a supportive queer community who nurtured my activist nature and allowed...
