Justice Department, Connecticut and Missouri prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Samuel Vandeusen and Christopher Scott Pritchard. They are accused of attacking the religious rights of members and destruction of property of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She was a teenager growing up in Queens when her mother kicked her out of the house for having a girlfriend. It was the 1960s, and being gay was "taboo", Diedra Nottingham remembered. With nowhere to turn, she wound up sleeping in parks and hallways.