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An Anti-Gay Lynching?

By The Daily Dish
Mar 30 2007, 7:50 AM ET

I linked to stories last February about the beating of an elderly gay man in Detroit that allegedly led to his death. It was reported as a hate-crime. The story now turns out to be much cloudier and probably not a hate-crime at all. Here's the latest story with the coroner's report. After the Matthew Shepard case, which was a vicious crime also distorted in the media (and milked for money by HRC), I should have been more wary.



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