Today Triangle Foundation released it's 2007 hate crime report which showed an alarming increase in reported anti-LGBT and HIV positive related hate violence. Advocates with the Triangle Foundation are attributing the huge increase in reported crime to two main reason - increased staff and the anti-gay appeals court decision last year repealing domestic partner benefits from public employers. 2007 began with the MI Court of Appeals doing what no other court in America had ever done - state that a ban on marriage also banned health care benefits for unmarried couples across the state. LGBT advocates maintain that voters never wanted that to happen and polling backs that up. For the Triangle Foundation release go here.