Dramatic spike in gay hate crimes in Calif.
Posted on March 17, 2009
Filed Under 365Gay, News
(San Francisco, California) A three-fold spike in homophobic hate crimes in Santa Clara County over the past year is being blamed on the fallout over Proposition 8, the voter measure than banned same-sex marriage in California.
More than half the hate crimes reported in the county south of San Francisco were …
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