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UPDATED: Fatal shooting of 32-year-old man called anti-gay hate crime

SDGLN Staff
May 18th, 2013

NEW YORK -- Police in Manhattan are investigating the overnight murder of a 32-year-old man in Greenwich Village as an anti-gay hate crime.

The suspect arrested at the scene around midnight Saturday has been accused of hurling anti-gay slurs at the victim, who was walking down Sixth Avenue with a friend when several other men accosted them.

Witnesses told police that the suspect hounded the victim, calling him a "faggot," saying he looked like a "gay wrestler" and making other slurs. The suspect then asked the men: "Do you want to die here?"

Boy blinded in one eye after anti-gay bullying attack

SDGLN Staff
June 19th, 2012

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- A 14-year-old Brooklyn boy brutally assaulted by bullies shouting anti-gay slurs has been blinded in one eye, and his family is suing New York City for $16 million, media are reporting.

The teen, Kardin Ulysse, was called "f*g" and "gay" and "transvestite," among other slurs, as one teen pinned him down and another teen pounded his face, head and neck.

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