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Possibly better known for being Lindsey Lohan’s on-off girlfriend (latest: the tabloids have it that the pair has reunited), DJ Samantha Ronson has become the latest celebrity to speak out against gay hate crimes.

The Los Angeles-based DJ recently twittered and posted a link on her Myspace blog to an image of an unidentified woman who had apparently been a victim of a hate crime outside the venue of a Seattle party Ronson played at last Friday. The Capitol Hill Seattle community blog however reported that the case could have stemmed from a fight with bouncers and is “not currently being investigated as a hate crime," quoting a Seattle Police Department spokesperson. Additionally, the police is “unaware of anybody having yet contacted the department to report such an incident.”

The UK-born Ronson said in a May 19 post: “I wish it surprised me more to hear about people being attacked for things beyond their control. A person's skin colour, faith, sexual orientation, or nationality are not reasons for persecution - I would say that this is my personal belief - however, it shouldn't be up for discussion.

“NO ONE (emphasis Ronson’s own) should have to suffer any sort of attack, verbal or physical, for any reason. There are no excuses for violence- people say "well they're just ignorant or uneducated" - so what??? I don't know how to speak Chinese, I haven't studied Hinduism, I’ve never been to Brazil, that doesn't mean that I feel that it's ok for me to hate what I don't understand, least of all resort to violence when challenged.

“Unfortunately people are killed, beaten and attacked daily for a number of ridiculously irrational reasons. It’s frightening to me that when I hear a story about someone being beaten up I am not as shocked by it as I should be- purely due to the fact that these incidents, as horrifying as they may be, are not isolated.

“It’s 2009 people, why are we still fighting each other? The whole world is a damn mess and we're too busy hating to come together and change it. President Obama ran a campaign based on hope- not hope for any group of people in particular- hope for everyone. His message was embraced worldwide, so why can't we, here in the US, fight together instead of with one another? I'm not saying that everyone has to love everyone individually, I’m no hippie, but seriously people, no one should ever resort to violence. What if your sister, mother, brother or father were being pummeled for wearing a red sweater? Would you stand by and do nothing? Well, we are all someone's child, sibling, or friend! Open your eyes!

“Sorry to vent, but that picture above was taken after a girl was attacked at a party I dj'd in Seattle, simply for being gay. It’s disgusting.

“Sorry for rambling, but it makes me so sad that this sh*t happens today.”

Sam Ronson will be playing in Singapore at Fuel (VIP room only) @ F1 Pit Building on Saturday, May 23. Tickets at $35 (at the door)/ $45 (VIP).