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Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Victim Luke O'Donovan Sentenced To Prison For 2012 Attack
Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Victim Luke O'Donovan Sentenced To Prison For 2012 AttackThe Huffington Post
By Curtis M. Wong
Posted: 08/16/2014
Family members, friends and a number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates are crying foul after the alleged victim of an anti-gay hate crime in Atlanta received a prison sentence.
Luke O'Donovan, 21, will reportedly spend the next two years in a Georgia prison, followed by eight years of probation, after agreeing to a plea deal on Aug. 11, Vice is reporting.
O'Donovan, who is identified in media reports as a "queer anarchist," was charged with attempted murder and five counts of felony aggravated assault in a 2012 incident. O'Donovan had reportedly been attacked by at least five men, who shouted anti-gay epithets at him after seeing him dance with several men at a New Year's Eve party.
As The Sparrow Project noted, O'Donovan defended himself with a pocket knife and fled the scene, and was arrested by Atlanta police hours later. In a situation that Vice writer Natasha Lennard compares to that of transgender activist CeCe McDonald, only O'Donovan was charged in the altercation....
MORE at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/16/luke-odonovan-gay-hate-crime-_n_5683215.html
