1990: President George H. Bush signs the National Hate Crimes Act, the 1st to include gay individuals.
tagged as: hate crimes. 1990. george h bush.
The Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 28 U.S.C. § 534, [2] requires the Attorney General to collect data on crimes committed because of the victim’s race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. The bill was signed into law in 1990 by George H. W. Bush, and was the first federal statute to “recognize and name gay, lesbian and bisexual people
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