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Homophobic Killings Won't Dampen New York's Gay Pride

At the end of this month, New York will celebrate its annual gay-pride march. But the parties and marches will be tarnished by the string of recent hate crimes that prompted that presence. The most notorious of those crimes being the murder of 32-year-old Mark Carson last month in the city's apparently gay-friendly Greenwich Village. Full story

Forked River Roadside Shrine, South Jersey

As soon as the news came of “Kevie Orr, dead at Lenape Point,” they got together, at my house. Hugging one another, crying and wailing. Some of them were hysterical, and fainting like Chloe would do, and my mom looking stunned like she’d been hit over the head with a mallet… Full story

Gold Miners Are Exhuming and Trafficking Corpses in Romania

Since 2004, the Romanian Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) has been illegally trafficking corpses in Roșia Montană, a mountainous area in the heart of—fittingly—Transylvania. The corpses in question are buried above a vast wealth of gold that the company wants to get their ha… Full story

Interviewing South African Rape Victims Isn't Easy When You're Disfigured

Late last year, I spent a week in South Africa's townships researching the jolly topic of masculinity and child rape for an article. Being my first foreign assignment, I was expecting a bit of a rough ride into an unknown territory and the horribly distressing subject matter with… Full story

Alabama’s Strip Clubs of Death

Most of the time, shootings in strip clubs are rare occurrences, the result of a drunk who’s thrown out of the club and comes back with a gun for revenge. But in Alabama the strip-club murder rate is completely out of control. Curious to see the sites of such strange violence, I… Full story

Is Burma’s Government Involved in Ethnic Cleansing?

The last couple of weeks have been filled with mixed news for the Burmese government. On the bright side, the European Union decided to permanently lift sanctions against the country and deeper trade ties with the United States were announced. On the negative side, however, state… Full story

A Long Way from Home

It Was Probably the Internet, Not Chechnya, That Radicalized the Boston Bombers

What has America done to Chechnya? While we’ll still be searching for more information about the Tsarnaev brothers and what motivated them for months—if not years—to come, their roots in Chechnya and the history of that country are a good place to start. Full story

Californians Are Dying to Go to Colma

Colma is a tiny town south of San Francisco, where nearly 2 million people are buried. Colma, which spans about two miles from one side to the other, is a necropolis. Necropolis is a word derived from the Greek term 'nekropolis,' which translates to "city of the dead." Full story

Pen Pals

Dying of a Dirty Mouth

Don’t think appearance matters? I once saw an old man get killed in prison for having bad breath. He was Puerto Rican, but we called him Miagi 'cause he had a very Asian look and resembled Pat Morita. Unfortunately, his mouth was completely decayed and smelled like sweltering gar… Full story

Question of the Day

What Do You Want Done to Your Body When You Die?

When our lives draw to their inexorable close, we like to look back at what we've accomplished over the years. Some of us have amassed over 1,000 Twitter followers, others have been interviewed while drunk on television. Then there are those who've achieved nothing at all. Full story