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Light a Candle for Angie Zapata
For folks in Colorado, this sounds like a good event if you are interested.
Come and hear from Mindy Barton, Legal Director at the Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Colorado ("The Center").
Mindy will cover basic transgender 101, including name change, driver's
license change, birth certificate cha...nge, Colorado Anti-Discrimination
Laws covering employment, housing and public accommodations,
trans-inclusive employment policies and practices, and hate crimes
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18
Location:ACLU of CO - Conference Room
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, December 8th
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata Jewish LGBT Ally, Ira Glass, works w/ HBO on drama called "T" abt FTM transition! h/t @transguy & Dede de Percin
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"T" comes from married couple Anya Epstein and Dan Futterman, who have just signed with the pay cabler as showrunners for the third season of "In Treatment."
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President Obama Signs The Matthew Shepard/James Bryd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act Into Law - 10/28/09
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata You did this!
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“After more than a decade of opposition and delay, we passed inclusive hate crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are,” Obama said in the East Room of the White House. After signing the law, Obama remarked, ...
Jasmine Weasley Christian-Getz Light a Candle for Angie Zapata: We will always remember
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Jasmine Weasley Christian-Getz Light a Candle for Angie Zapata:
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Monty Glenn Miller Light a Candle for Angie Zapata: Please take a moment and remember Matthew.....
Shortly after midnight on October 7, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard met Aaron James McKinney and Russell Arthur Henderson in a bar. McKinney and Henderson posed as gay men and offered Shepard a rid...
www.denverpost.com
Today, the 11th anniversary of the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, is an appropriate time to reflect on the important protections the legislation would extend to gays, lesbians and transgender people.
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata
This is you making a difference. http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20
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The House vote comes after a groundbreaking case in Weld County that saw the murder of a transgender woman prosecuted this year as a hate crime. The lack of protection for gay, lesbian and transgender people in existing hate crime laws struck a chord locally in the last year after 18-year-old Angie...
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata Hundreds of students turned out to support this young man. But the fact that this occurred at a very progressive college shows that it can happen anywhere. And North Carolina is a state that does not have a hate crimes statute, which is why the federal law is so important.
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The threats happened in the Bryan Hall dormitory last week. On Monday, a student found a note on his door that had a death threat and called him a derogatory name. The note also said "nobody wants your kind on campus." Last Thursday, someone dropped a rock with a letter attached in the same student...