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'Change:' Defense spending, hate crimes
The Swampby Mark Silva "The Pentagon is not the kind of place that can turn on a dime,'' says Defense Secretary Robert Gates, hailing the signing of a defense-spending bill that targets wasteful spending and unneeded weapons. "It will take more......Tags: Crimes, Social Issues, White House, Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
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Citing thousands of hate crimes against gays, Obama signs, celebrates new law
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Overall number of hate crimes drops in L.A. County but crimes against gays increase, new report says
L.A. NOWLos Angeles County saw an overall 4% drop in hate crimes last year, while crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people increased, prompted in part by last November’s highly charged Proposition 8 initiative, the voter-approved ban on... -
Rachel Maddow : `Love this administration or hate it, this president is getting a lot done'
Change of SubjectHe signed a bill that gave amnesty to undocumented immigrants. He grew the size of the federal government and the budget, added a whole new cabinet level agency and added tens of thousands of government workers to the federal payroll....... -
Matthew Shepard's murder, 10 years later
![Last fall, as every fall for 10 years, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was thinking about the 1998 killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project had gone to Laramie just weeks after Shepard's horrific murder, interviewed townspeople and transformed their interview tapes into the well-received "The Laramie Project," produced first as a play and later an HBO film.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/49728270-08142523.jpg "Last fall, as every fall for 10 years, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was thinking about the 1998 killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project had gone to Laramie just weeks after Shepard's horrific murder, interviewed townspeople and transformed their interview tapes into the well-received "The Laramie Project,\" produced first as a play and later an HBO film.")
Last fall, as every fall for 10 years, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was thinking about the 1998 killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project had gone to Laramie just weeks after Shepard's...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Gays and Lesbians, Hospitals and Clinics, Aaron McKinney, Hate Crimes
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Pedro Zamora: from 'Real World' to real legend
When "The Real World" premiered in 1992 on MTV, it created a standard in reality television: It cooped up Mormons and gay people and crude bike messengers and splayed their tiny culture wars on TV. - More: Television News From the beginning, "Real...Tags: Crimes, HIV, Wars and Interventions, Hawaii, Gays and Lesbians
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West Hollywood Gay Rights Memorial Vandalized
WEST HOLLYWOOD -- Vandals have destroyed two trees at a West Hollywood memorial for two gay-rights icons. It happened sometime late last month in the Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle at Crescent Heights and Santa Monica Boulevard, WeHoNews.com...Tags: Justice and Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Human Rights, KTLA, California
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The Gospel and hate crimes
On May 3, the House voted to pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. The Senate will take up a companion bill, known as the Matthew Shepard Act, when it returns from its summer recess. If enacted, this law would authorize the...Tags: Crimes, Politics, University of Chicago, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health
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Anti-gay crimes are hate crimes
THE HOUSE OF Representatives has passed a new hate crime bill that pleases gays and lesbians, angers the religious right and has provoked a veto threat from President Bush. But the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act should be judged not on...Tags: Crimes, Justice and Rights, Health and Safety at School, Gays and Lesbians, California
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'This Beautiful City' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
![When a trendy young theater company announces that its next subject is going to be the explosion of the evangelical Christian movement, snarky parody is a natural expectation. What's surprising about "This Beautiful City," a diverting if curiously earnest performance piece by the New York-based company the Civilians, is how it keeps its satiric powder dry.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42651426-29140824.jpg "When a trendy young theater company announces that its next subject is going to be the explosion of the evangelical Christian movement, snarky parody is a natural expectation. What's surprising about "This Beautiful City,\" a diverting if curiously earnest performance piece by the New York-based company the Civilians, is how it keeps its satiric powder dry.")
Times Theater CriticWhen a trendy young theater company announces that its next subject is going to be the explosion of the evangelical Christian movement, snarky parody is a natural expectation. What's surprising about "This Beautiful City," a diverting if curiously earnest...Tags: Protestantism, Freedom of Religion, Crimes, Christian Rock (genre), Social Issues
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Williams' 'One Arm' packs a punch of pulp
Tribune theater criticTennessee Williams created some beautiful damaged female characters in his career, but his beautiful damaged men were just as plentiful and, as muses, more powerful. To a long list of gorgeously afflicted Williams hunks you can add Ollie Olsen, the...Tags: Tennessee Williams, Crimes, Statue of Liberty, San Diego (San Diego, California), Manhattan (New York City)
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Dear Jesse
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 6, 1998 At the beginning of "Dear Jesse," documentarian Tim Kirkman lists all that he and the senator from North Carolina have in common as if he were writing Helms a letter: They were both born in Monroe, N.C., raised as Southern...Tags: U.S. Senate, HIV, Gays and Lesbians, Education, Politics
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