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Are Hate Crime Laws Necessary?
As the trial proceeds against Tyler Clementi's roommate Dharun Ravi, proponents and opponents of hate crime statutes discuss whether the laws are needed.
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Are Hate Crime Laws Necessary?

As the trial proceeds against Tyler Clementi's roommate Dharun Ravi, proponents and opponents of hate crime statutes discuss whether the laws are needed.

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Jeremy Carl has promoted the "great replacement" theory and claims transgender children don't exist, the former senior officials told The Advocate.

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Most Popular

The actor is survived by his wife and six children.

Indiana will no longer accept court orders or medical documentations recognizing transgender residents' gender changes.

It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.

Opinion: "I have no problem with lip syncing, but you'd think the side that hates drag queens so much would have a little more shame about it," writes Ryan Adamczeski.

Joseph H. Thompson was among six prosecutors who resigned last month over the Justice Department’s effort to investigate the wife of Renée Good.

Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.