SF News Friends Gather for Memorial Service for Slain Oakland Trans Activist Brandy Martell Oakland North has a melancholy but excellent account of a small celebration of life held over the weekend for slain trans woman Brandy Martell. Friends and acquaintances gathered to look at pictures and
SF News Trans Woman Murdered In Oakland In Apparent Hate Crime A transgender woman was shot and killed while sitting in her car in downtown Oakland last weekend, and it's taken a few days for local media outlets to catch up to the story.
SF News Have You Seen These Sketchy Characters? Wanted For Castro Gay Bashings The San Francisco Police Department is on the hunt for these two guys, suspected of committing two night time assaults in the Castro and Hayes Valley. According to Police, the two suspects yelled
SF News SFPD Releases Man Held in Hate Crime Against Transgender Woman A man accused of assaulting and threatening to kill a trans woman on Valencia Street on October 31 has been released from custody, despite previously being held on $105,000 bail and facing
SF News Castro's 'Stop the Violence' Campaign: Dennis Herrera Rally? [UPDATED] Slammed by noted activist and blogger Michael Petrelis as "a pathetic Sisters event more interested in being full of Kumbaya feelings and promoting two lame politicians," Saturday's Stop the Violence campaign, sparked by
SF News Stop the Violence Campaign Marches Against Hate Crime Tomorrow The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, along with Castro Community on Patrol and the Triangle Martial Arts Association, have scheduled a march for tomorrow, Saturday August 13th, to speak out against recent hate crimes
SF News Cops Seeking Teen Gang That Committed Duboce Triangle Hate Crime Attack On Saturday night, three white males described as being in their "mid-teens" attacked a 52-year-old Santa Barbara man with a baseball bat near Market and Sanchez in Duboce Triangle. The teens, who yelled
SF News Transgender Youth Assaulted Near 16th and Mission, Rally Planned for Tonight [Update: Rally Moved to 16th and Mission] A 20-year-old transgendered woman who says she came to San Francisco hoping "there would be more safety than [she] found," fell victim to a publicly witnessed hate crime that occurred on a busy
SF News Hayward Men Who Came to SF to Shoot Gay People Receive Jail Time Three Hayward men -- Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Mohammad Habibzada, 24, and Sayed Bassam, 21 -- pleaded guilty on Monday to shooting a 27-year-old man in the face with a BB gun. The incident
SF News Video from Last Night's Vigil in the Castro for Jorge Mercado, Gay Teen Slain in Puerto Rico 19-year-old Puerto Rican teenager Jorge Mercado was stabbed, dismembered and beheaded last week by 25-year-old Juan Martinez Matos, and Matos has since confessed to the crime using the gay panic defense. Matos was
SF News House Passes Addition of Sexual Orientation to Hate Crimes Law The definition of the federal hate crimes law might finally get expanded to include sexual orientation, as the House of Representatives approved the bill yesterday, which was an attachment of the $680 billion
SF News Vigil Tonight for Murdered Gay Israelis On Saturday, a man entered a gay support center in Israel, killing two and injuring "at least 10." Most of the victims, according to BBC News, were young teens. Yaniv Weisman, head of
SF News Threefold Rise in Gay Bashings in Santa Clara County A surge in anti-gay hate crimes has been reported in Santa Clara County for 2008, representing a three-fold increase over 2007. Both LGBT activists and the Assistant District Attorney for the county attribute
SF News Go Back to Andorra, You Stupid Lithuanians! While not nearly as exciting as receiving top honors as the best city for tourists to walk slow on city sidewalks, or best city in which singles can hump, on Monday the FBI
