CANBERRA, Australia -- The administrator of a confessional webpage is unrepentant after publishing the offensive boasts of a Canberra man who said he had committed hate crimes against gay men in Civic.

Facebook page Canberra Confessions published an anonymous post from a Canberran who claimed he had met gay men in Cube nightclub in order to lure them outside and bash them.

The confession said the man faked his sexuality to set the trap and then robbed his victims after the assault.

The author bragged he had assaulted three men already and planned to continue the practice.

QUEENS, N.Y. -- Lou Rispoli, a well-respected and beloved community leader in the Queens, N.Y., gay neighborhood of Sunnyside, died Thursday after he was removed from life support and sent hospice care, the result of an early morning attack last week.

Rispoli, 62, who lived in Sunnyside for the past three decades, was attacked at around 2 a.m. on October 20 on 43rd Avenue in Queens.

LONDON, Ky. — Opening statements began Wednesday morning in the trial of two Eastern Kentucky men who face the first charges in the nation under a section of the federal hate-crimes law dealing with sexual orientation.

David Jason Jenkins and his cousin, Anthony Ray Jenkins, are accused of conspiring to beat and kill a gay man in Harlan County because of his sexual orientation, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Hydee Hawkins told jurors that the two men "bragged to family members" about the April 2011 attack and said they did it "because he was gay."

CLARENDON, Texas — A gay couple in this small, north Texas town said they think that a spray-painted hate message found on their front porch is linked to an anti-gay newspaper advertisement written by a local minister.

Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers said they found the message “leave or die fags” on their porch Monday morning, and immediately reported the vandalism to the Donley County Sheriff’s office.