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Saturday, October 02, 2010 A recent Rutgers University student's suicide is galvanizing the gay community around hate-crime legislation just as Matthew Shepard's murder did more than a decade before.

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Congress extends hate crimes to cover gays

Thursday, October 08, 2009 Congress votes to extend hate crimes to cover attacks based on sexual orientation, gender

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