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Mar 2008

The Advocate: "An Invisible War" -- by Riki Wilchins, Executive Director

Feb 2008

Middle School Hate Crime Murder

Nov 2007

Action Alert! Hate Crimes Bill Still in Danger

Sep 2007

Senate Passes Hate Crimes Bill with Gender Identity

Mar 2007

Savaging the Dead
Gender-Based Violence Claims Life of Another Young Person of Color
Inclusive Hate Crimes Legislation Introduced in House

Feb 2007

Busta Rhymes + Patricia Ireland + Barney Frank = ???

Dec 2006

Murders of Gender Non-Conforming Youth Documented in New Report

Oct 2006

Missing Victims: FBI Omits Gender

Mar 2006

Mother of Slain Teen to Keynote GenderYOUTH Leadership Summit

Sep 2005

House Finally Passes Hate Crimes Bill With Gender Identity
Two Murder Convictions in Araujo Case But No Hate Crime

Aug 2005

GenderPAC Calls on Courts, Public to Take Gender-Based Hate Crimes More Seriously

Mar 2005

A Quest for a Restroom That's Neither Men's Room Nor Women's Room

Sep 2004

Students Launch Campaign to Stop Bullying Based on Gender Stereotypes

Jul 2004

GPAC Denounces Sexual Assault Hazing at Top Prep School
GenderPAC Applauds Passage of Hate Crimes Bill in Senate

Jun 2004

GenderPAC Disappointed in Araujo Murder Mistrial

May 2004

GenderPAC Mourns the Suicide Death of "John/Joan"

Apr 2004

Man Arrested for Attempted Murder of Transgender Teen
Full Legislature to Hear CT Hate Crimes Bill

Feb 2004

GPAC Condemns Teen Shooting Death Following Gender Taunt
GPAC Denounces CO Coach’s Comments on Assault of Female Athlete

Oct 2003

California Father Continues To Fight
for Son’s Freedom From Gender Discrimination
Anniversary Of Araujo Death Marked By Vigil, New Funding

Sep 2003

GenderPAC Mourns Victims Of Capital Killings

Aug 2003

GPAC Mourns DC Transgender Victims
Attacks Leave Two Dead, One Injured

Jul 2003

Congress Passes Prison Rape Reduction Bill

May 2003

GenderPAC Condemns Murder of African-American NJ Teen

Mar 2003

GPAC Applauds New Mexico Passage of Non-Discrimination and Hate Crimes Bills
Oscar Winner Hilary Swank, Director Kimberly Peirce Speak Out on Araujo Killing

Feb 2003

GPAC Condemns Shooting Murder of Michigan Transgender Teen
"We're Going to Get Some Shovels" -- Witness Testifies
in Murder Being Compared to Brandon Teena's
GPAC Applauds Conviction in Harassment of Effeminate Gay Customer

Jan 2003

GPAC Applauds Sentencing
of Effeminate Native American’s Killer
Gay Customer Harassed,
Threatened for Being Effeminate
GPAC Concerned Over Decision
to Grant Bail to Alleged Araujo Killer
GPAC Condemns Shooting
of Feminine Miami Gay Man

Dec 2002

Chicago, Cook Cty, San Jose Pass Job Laws
GPAC Denounces NE Supreme Court Ruling

Oct 2002

GenderPAC Condemns Killing of CA Teen
TX Prisoner Raped, Allegations Ignored
Conviction in Murder of Native American Man Buried Alive for Dancing "Like a Girl"

Sep 2002

NJ Gov. Signs Anti-Bullying Bill

Aug 2002

Former Transgender Inmate Files $18 Million Suit
GPAC Condemns Murder of DC Transgender Teens
Plea in Murder of NV Man Killed Because He “Danced Like a Girl”
GPAC Applauds Bipartisan Effort to Curb Prison Rape
Senate Prison Rape Bill On the Move

Jul 2002

Time for Schools to Stand Up to Gender Stereotyping in the Classroom
Brandon Teena's Killer Wants Death Sentence Commuted

Jun 2002

GPAC Applauds Sentencing of Martinez Killer
Hate Crimes Bill Stalled by Senate Republicans

May 2002

GPAC Applauds Federal Hate Crime Indictment
Crossdresser Shot in the Back, Police Arrest Hate Crime Suspect
Willie Houston Murder Suspect Extradited for Trial
12-Year-Old NY Student Beaten by Classmates for Figure Skating
Texas Prisoner Raped, Sold Into Sexual Slavery

Apr 2002

An Interview with April Mora -- Teen Attacked in CO

Mar 2002

GPAC Condemns Assault on Colorado Teen
GenderPAC Expresses Concern Over Plea Bargain in Martinez Killing

Jan 2002

More Low Damages, More Appeals in Brandon Case
Murphy's Mother Arrested for Intimidating Witness in Martinez Killing
Shot with His Hands in the Air -- Willie Houston's Fiancee Remembers

Oct 2001

A Murder in Washington, Police Classify As Hate Crime
News in Brief

Sep 2001

Interview with the mother of Fred Martinez

Aug 2001

GenderPAC Condemns Martinez Killing -- Urges FBI to Investigate
Man Murdered for Holding Fiancé's Purse, While Assisting Blind Friend
Harvard Report Documents Intimate Violence Against Young Girls
News In Brief

Jul 2001

Suspect Arrested in Martinez Murder, Victims Mother Speaks Out
Settlement Reached With African-American Beaten, Sodomized By NYPD
News In Brief
Native-American Transgendered Teen Found Murdered in Colorado
NY GenderQueer Student Tells State of Repeatedly School Assaults

Jun 2001

Vigil for Amanda Milan in New York

May 2001

GenderPAC Applauds Passage of Texas Hate Crimes Bill
GenderPAC Commends New Study, Condemns Gender-Based Prison Rape
GenderPAC Decries FBI Underreporting of Gender Hate Crimes
Washington State Conservatives Stall Gender Anti-Bullying Bill

Apr 2001

GenderPAC Hails Nebraska's Supreme Court Decision

Mar 2001

Nevada Student Sues After Officials Fail to Act
On Guns, Genderbating and Youth
Another Gender-Based Murder in Houston
Same-Sex Couple Sentenced to Death for Living as Man and Wife
Flordia NOW Adopts Resolution Supporting Transgender
Oklahoma Executes Wanda Jean Allen
Democrats Introduce Landmark Gay-Inclusive Civil But No Mention of Gender Rights
Conviction in San Jose Gender Murder, But not a "Hate Crime"
Somalia Lesbian Couple Sentence to Death
Texas Legislative Committee Approves Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill

Oct 2000

Gender-Bashed Student Mistaken For Gay
GenderPAC Files Amicus Brief in Brandon Teena Wrongful Death Suit

Aug 2000

Gay Bashers Assaults Straight Couple
Funeral For Amanda Milan

Jul 2000

Gender-based Assault Of Olympic Hopeful Exiting Women's Room
Gender Language Proposed For VAWA
Hate Crimes Legislation Moves Forward In Washington And Albany
Woman Murdered In Times Square

Jun 2000

Second Murder Within In A Month In D.c.

May 2000

Tyra Henderson Dead In Washington

Mar 2000

Boys Boys Boys
Killer Walks Free -- Vigil For Fitzroy Green
Defense Used Gender To Free Killer Of Black Gay Man

Feb 2000

Lambda Legal Defense Fund Will Join Appeal Of Meager Award In Brandon Teena Case
San Jose Murder Victim Identified

Jan 2000

Murder In San Jose
Fisher Strikes Plea Bargain With ARMY: Gets 12 Years
Body Found In Portland

Dec 1999

Guilty Verdict In Winchell Murder Case
Brandon Teena's Mother Wins Wrongful Death Suit

Nov 1999

Murder In Baltimore
1,500 At 'Creating Change Protest Police Harrassment
Ruby Bota Murder Case Dropped

Oct 1999

Transgendered Woman Murdered In Cleveland

Sep 1999

An Interview With Calpernia Adams
Cross-dresser Murdered In New Jersey

Jul 1999

Transman Found Dead In California
More Transviolence In California
Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Brandon Teena's Murderer
Hollywood Hate Crime

Jun 1999

Alleged Murderers Walk
Gender Activists Lobby Congress

May 1999

HRC Issues Statement On Gender Hate Crimes
Unearthed Body May Be That Of Missing Transwoman
Unearthed Body Found, Death Of Transwoman Feared
The Advocate Features Transgender

Apr 1999

Murdered Trans-woman's Niece Will Lobby Congress
Police Seek Murdered Transvestite's Boyfriend
4th National Lobby Day 23-25 May

Mar 1999

Murder In Georgia
Gender-questioning Teen Suicide In Cleveland
Congressmembers And Trans-activists
Yet Another Trans-murder In Texas
Editorial From Genderpac's Executive Director

Feb 1999

Another Trans-murder In Texas

Jan 1999

Rally For Slain Trans-teenager In Austin
Family Of Bronx Transexual Alleges Police Brutality
Trans-murder In Austin

Dec 1998

Analysis: Tyra Hunter Wrongful Death Trial
Jury Finds Dictrict Of Columbia Guilty Of Negligence And Malpractice In Tyra Hunter's Death

Nov 1998

Transwoman Murdered In Boston
Transwoman Chanel Chandler Murdered In California
Commentary: The Tyra Hunter Wrongful Death Trail
Tyra Hunter Wrongful Death Trial Opens
Rally Held For Assaulted Drag Queen

Oct 1998

Transinclusion In Matthew Shepard Protest

Sep 1998

Groundbreaking Documentary On Gender Movement To Air
Anti-violence Rally In Greenwich Village

Aug 1998

NY Papers Cover Trans-murder In Greenwich Village

Jul 1998

Time Magazine Highlights Trans-movement

Jun 1998

Sexual Minorities Round Table In Portland
Transwoman In Murder-suicide

May 1998

Violence Against Transpeople

Apr 1998

National Gender Lobby Day On Capitol Hill
GPAC And ITA! Weigh In On Brandon Teena Movie
Gender Identity Hate Crime Bill Passes CAState Assembly Committee

Feb 1998

Transexual Woman Murdered In New Jersey
'TOPS' Protests Trans-murder In Tampa
Transgendered Sex Worker Murdered
DC Drops First Amendment Claim In Transexual Wrongful Death Suit
DC Says Rescue Worker Had 'Right' To Taunt Dying Victim

Nov 1997

GenderPAC Washington DC Advocate Reports On Hate Crimes Conference
Man Sentenced For Killing Female Impersonator

Aug 1997

Queer Groups Demonstrate Again Over NYPD Torture Of Haitian Immigrant

Jul 1997

Men Convicted In Gay/trans-murder

May 1997

KY Man Dressed As Woman Beaten, Shot At Park

Apr 1997

Results Of First National Survey Of Transviolence Announced
Menace Demonstrator Encounters Killer

Mar 1997

Justice Dept Urged To Investigate Hate Crimes
LCCR And AVP Speak Out On Transviolence

Feb 1997

Vigil Held For Chanelle Pickett

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