According to some data, hate crimes targeting gays have increased in the past two years.

She said later that they did not know at the time that the murderer was Dan White, and had feared that a gunman was simply targeting gays.

Several of the band's songs include lyrics which target gays and minorities for ridicule and harassment.

To the Editor: It's a sad, but hardly surprising, fact that conservative groups are targeting gays as scapegoats for the cruelty toward detainees at Abu Ghraib.

It was the first federal court of appeals decision to find that a law targeting gays and lesbians is subject to intermediate scrutiny.

A 1999 bombing in Brick Lane was part of a series that targeted ethnic minorities, gays and "multiculturalists".

They have been taught somehow that it is O.K. to target lesbians and gays for violence.