If you're ready to cry into your evening bowl of ice cream bon bons, grab all the Kleenex ever made, and get into this Anti-Defamation League video. It imagines a world that still has Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Matthew Shepard, and many other wonderful souls because it's a world without hate crimes. I'm…

Yesterday afternoon, the Senate voted 68-29 to approve the federal hate crimes amendment, joining the House's earlier decision. The amendment (and the defense bill it's attached to) will now go to President Obama to sign.

A new production opening October 12th will show the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard—from the perspective of his murderer. The script is based on detailed interviews with homophobe and murderer Aaron McKinney. [WWLTV]

Eleven years after Matthew Shepard was fatally beaten for being gay, his mother Judy is releasing a memoir about his life and death. An excerpt and interview in Newsweek reveal her efforts to spare others from her son's fate.

You know Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina congresswoman who called the murder of Matthew Shepard a "hoax"? She's apologizing. Thing is, Matthew's mom isn't buying. [Politico, MSNBC]

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The GLAAD Media Awards were held last night in Manhattan, and some of our favorite, swoon-inducing stars (straight and queer) turned out to honor MTV president of entertainment Brian Graden and mother of gay rights activist Judy Shepard. I mean, just check out dreamy Mariska Hargitay and her husband Peter Hermann. Yum, …