US Congressmen have endorsed a House resolution condemning Hinduphobia and celebrating the contributions of the Hindu-American community. The measure highlights the enrichment of American society by Hindu traditions and addresses rising hate crimes.

A man who witnessed the shooting at the homeless shelter known as Harrison House testified the dispute started with an argument over music.

A New York man who killed a gay dancer voguing outside a gas station claimed in court he acted in self-defense.

Dmitriy Popov also denied hurling racist and anti-gay slurs before fatally stabbing O’Shae Sibley, a key factor in prosecutors charging him with second-degree murder as a hate crime.

“I was scared that I was going to get hurt,” Popov testified in trial, according to _The New York…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg secured an indictment of a 26-year-old man on hate crime charges. The prosecution is moving forward after a years-long gap between Tavaughn Thompson, a Bronx resident, allegedly beating a man while hurling anti-gay slurs at a Harlem subway station, and his arrest earlier this year.

“New Yorkers deserve to be safe using our transit system without fear…

The two gunmen, who took their own lives after the shooting, killed three men outside the Islamic Center of San Diego. Law enforcement was already on the hunt for one of the suspects: his mother had called the police earlier in the day saying he had stolen her guns and car. Soon after, police received a call about an active shooter – and authorities say it was the same teenager, alongside an…

As U.S. House Republicans scrutinize one of the nation’s most prominent anti-hate groups, they will bring in a right-wing commentator who spent years villainizing LGBTQ+ Americans and their allies.

Tyler O’Neil, now a senior editor at The Daily Signal, was listed as the top witness at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center being held Wednesday. That’s largely…

When I was in high school, a kid named Matthew Shepard was murdered, beaten ,and left tied to a fence in Wyoming because he was gay. I grew up in a culture that did not feel very far away from that world at all, both culturally and geographically. Northwest New Mexico and Wyoming had a lot in common.

I was out very young, never ever in the closet.

One of my most searing memories in high…

We asked crime victims, mayors, business owners and other supporters of Ursula Jones Dickson, Pamela Price and Gopal Krishan why their candidate is the right choice.

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A new youth-led publication is challenging how communities respond to anti-LGBTQ+ violence, urging a move away from policing and incarceration and toward community-based solutions.

The Black Lives Matter and Stop AAPI Hate movements led student Jacqueline Pham to grapple with questions around the criminal legal system and prison reform. Over time, they came to identify as a prison…

A South Carolina man has been charged under a local hate crime ordinance after authorities say he fired multiple gunshots into a well-known LGBTQ+ nightclub in Myrtle Beach, according to The Sun News.

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Timothy James Truett, 37, was arrested Thursday and charged with assault…

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