Why Did Stephanie Thomas Have to Die?

Issue Number:

112

Winter

2003

The murder of a transgendered teen in Washington, D.C. offers insight into a horrifying trend across the U.S. An SCV official gets even with the Report using lewd spam. A neo-Nazi gains respect as a financial expert before being indicted. Anti-immigration activists confront Immigrant Worker Freedom Riders.

In This Issue

Violence Engulfs Transgendered Population in D.C.

A wave of violence engulfs the transgendered, whose murder rate may outpace that of all other hate killings

By Bob Moser

A wave of violence engulfs transgendered people across the U.S., whose murder rate may outpace that of all other hate killings.

Sons of Confederate Veterans Leader Ron Wilson Faces Controversy

A top official of a Southern heritage group decided to get even with a writer he didn't like. But then he began to boast

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow

John Walker Adams of the Sons of Confederate Veterans carries out an 'e-attack' against an Intelligence Report writer — and then boasts publicly about it.

Popular Investment Adviser Chris Temple Has Neo-Nazi Ties

In the last two years, Chris Temple became a star of the financial press, despite his neo-Nazi ties. That was the first surprise

By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

In the last two years, Chris Temple became a star of the financial press, despite his neo-Nazi ties; he has now been indicted on federal charges of mail fraud and money laundering.

900 Immigrant Workers Take Freedom Ride of their Own

By Bob Moser

Anti-immigration activists confront a pro-migrant freedom ride — joined by some of America's leading neo-Nazi groups.

More Features

Gay Marriage Debate Causes Rage on the Right Editorial By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow As a wave of violence descends on the D.C. transgender community, editor Mark Potok explores our culture's rage against gays, lesbians, the transgendered and other sexual minorities.	D.C. Police Sgt. Brett Parson Discusses Trangender Killings In Washington, D.C., police now take crime against sexual minorities seriously. A seasoned street cop explains how and why in this exclusive interview.
'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok At a meeting of 'paleoconservatives,' former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow and others sound the alarm on non-white immigration.	Reviving Paganism By Mark Pitcavage A Swedish scholar takes a serious look at racist neo-Paganism and its rise on the American radical right in Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism.
KKK Leader Richard Butler’s Porn Star Companion Gets Busted By Nia Hightower From his political running mates to a recent traveling companion, neo-Nazi Richard Butler has made some unusual friends, including a former porn megastar.	Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science By Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser A group of scientists and journalists tries to turn back the clock on sex, gender and race using eugenics and controversial genetic theories.

Briefs

Fred Phelps' Effort May Dissuade Ten Commandment Displays In a bid to display a monument decrying Matthew Shepard, hate preacher Fred Phelps manages to force Casper, Wyo. officials to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a public park to deny his request.	Nuwaubians Arrested in Common-Law Scam Black Supremacists Three members of the black supremacist Nuwaubian group have been arrested in connection with a "common law" scam.	Fringe Eco-Radicals Growing More Violent Eco-Violence Radical environmentalist and animal rights groups step up violent rhetoric and action in a series of bombings, arsons, and the first such death threat.
'Southern Strategy' Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's re-election campaign is complicated by questions of racism, ties to a white supremacist group, and Mississippi's state flag, which includes a reproduction of the Confederate battle flag.	Matt Hale Trial Postponed as New Charges are Added Terrorism A federal judge has postponed the murder solicitation trial of Matt Hale, the leader of the neo-Nazi group long known as the World Church of the Creator.	Flap Over Alabama Historian's Essay Roils City Neo-Confederates After criticizing a movie for 'whitewashing the Confederacy,' Museum of Mobile (Ala.) director George Ewert encounters protests and the threat of losing his job.
Hate International By Brian Levin Because of the Constitution's First Amendment, the United States now hosts hundreds of European-language hate sites.

Southern Poverty Law Center