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Hate Crimes

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Charles Cannon, Two Others Guilty in Hate-Crime Beating of Black Man at Bus Stop

    A Houston federal jury has convicted three men on hate-crime charges for beating up a random black man at a downtown bus stop. Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 40, and Brian Kerstetter, 32 were convicted under the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act; a fourth man saw his case dismissed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Feds Indict Charles Cannon, Three Others on Hate-Crime Charge for Bus-Stop Beating

    A federal grand jury has indicted four men in the beating of a black man at a Houston bus stop in August. Charles Cannon, 26; Michael McLaughlin, 40; Brian Kerstetter, 32; and Joseph Staggs, 49, were indicted on one charge each of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Alleged White Supremacists Beat Black Man, But DA Doesn't File Hate Crime Charge

    FacebookCharles Cannon won't face hate-crime charges.​In a crime that hearkened back to the skinhead days of the early '90s, or modern-day Dallas, four white men remain behind bars today charged with assaulting a black man at a downtown bus stop early Sunday morning. Police want the incident c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Jon Buice: Parole Reversed for Gay Basher

    Jon Buice stays in prison.​Jon Buice, who had been awarded a controversial parole after serving time for his role in the gay-bashing death of Paul Broussard, will not be a free man after all. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today reversed its earlier decision granting Buice parole in l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    GLBT Hate Crime Victims Memorialized on Charles Armstrong's Property

    Montrose residents lit a candle for hate crime victims.​Last night, throngs of people bearing candles filled an empty parking lot in Montrose, just off the main gay bar drag of Pacific Street. A block or two from here, Paul Broussard was murdered in 1991. Aaron Scheerhoorn was stabbed to death ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Crime Rate Drops in Houston, Nation

    Bite taken​Violent-crime rates have dropped in both Houston and the nation, according to the FBI's just-released annual report on crime statistics. Nationally violent crime dropped 5.5 percent; in Texas six percent and in Houston the drop was 5.9 percent. (You can see the Texas stats here.) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Idiots Try to Burn Mosque

    Fire didn't have time to spread.​The Texas chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is asking the FBI to investigate an attempted arson at a southwest side mosque as a hate crime. Media reports say at least three men in masks broke a window at the Madrasah Islamiah mosque near ... More >>

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    December 23, 2010

    Hatchet Job

    Activist Ray Hill responds to "Montrose Murder."

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Paul Broussard: Hate-Crime Victim Lives On In Parole Fight Over His Attacker

    Orgies with a female prison chaplain?​Jon Buice was at the center of one of the most publicized hate crimes in Houston history, a 1991 attack outside a Montrose gay bar that left Paul Broussard dead. Buice was sent away, but now is the focus of an intense fight over whether he should be parol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Lance Reyna: Transgendered Man's Attacker Is Free

    Photo courtesy HCSOTerrence Calhoun, accused of attacking Lance Reyna​This summer we reported on the assault against Lance Reyna, a Houston Community College student who was assaulted in a bathroom on the main campus.Reyna, a transgendered man, is a vocal leader in the HCC GLBT community, and supp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Lance Reyna: An Arrest, But No Hate-Crime Charges

    An easier prosecution without a hate crime angle, prosecutors say​Authorities have made an arrest in the assault of a gay-rights leader who was attacked on the central campus of Houston Community College, but no hate-crime charges will be filed.HCC student Terrance Calhoun, 22, was charged in the ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 18, 2010

    SPECIAL SAN DIEGO EDITION

    An easier prosecution without a hate crime angle, prosecutors say​Authorities have made an arrest in the assault of a gay-rights leader who was attacked on the central campus of Houston Community College, but no hate-crime charges will be filed.HCC student Terrance Calhoun, 22, was charged in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    A Preview Of CNN's Latino In America: Disappointing, And Where The Hell Is Houston?

    ​CNN unveils its take on the Latino experience tonight with the widely publicized debut of Latino in America.Hair Balls admittedly enjoyed the broiled shrimp and free wine at the 50-minute preview two weeks ago when CNN was using Houston Latinos as a test audience for the program and we're somewha ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 8, 2009

    Domy Movie Nights: The Bible Tells Me So

    News flash: God doesn't hate gays and lesbians

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    City Council Candidate Lives A Life Of Danger, He Says

    ​Houston politics can be a dirty business -- and first-time City Council candidate Lonnie Allsbrooks says he's finding out how nasty things can get: he says he's been the target of shady dudes in tinted-windowed cars staking out his business and chasing him down the mean streets of the Heights ... More >>

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    March 12, 2009

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