He plans to meet this week with a citizens' anti-violence group that offered to help with the case.

Additionally, friend of the court briefs to remand were filed by a spectrum of religious and anti-violence groups, a number of cities and mayors, and many police chiefs and law enforcement organizations.

Bias-related slayings of homosexuals are often gratuitously violent and many go unsolved, according to a report released yesterday by 23 victims services and anti-violence groups nationwide.

"This is important for Dennis and his recovery," said Christine Quinn, executive director of the anti-violence group.

The police agreed with the anti-violence group that in addition to the attack on the bartender on April 25, two other confrontations were bias incidents.

Mr. Bowen has been around since 1994, said Jan Holland, a victims' rights advocate with the anti-violence group.

This anti-violence working group consisted of 120 civil servants and political appointees.

UNITY Charity is a youth led and artist driven anti-violence group from Toronto that specializes in urban performance assemblies and artistic workshops.

Criticism for the violent aspects of video game culture has come from a number of anti-violence groups, and perhaps the most vocal of these are the numerous religious opposition groups.