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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?"

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First generation to discuss surviving AIDS crisis, healing the community

SDGLN Staff
April 30th, 2013

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of New Yorkers who lived during the worst devastation of the AIDS years, joined by leading educators and scientists, will come together in a free panel discussion and town-hall meeting to discuss the unique challenges they face as a group.

Titled "Is This My Beautiful Life? Perspectives From Survivors of the AIDS Generation," this first-ever community forum will take place on Thursday, May 9, from 7-9 pm, in Mason Hall at Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave. (enter on 23rd Street). The space is wheelchair accessible.

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"Paul Thek And His Circle In The 1950s" is rare look at gay artist, icon

Curtis M. Wong -- Huffpost Gay Voices
April 23rd, 2013

A New York exhibition promises to shed a refreshingly intimate, revealing light on the life of a gay American icon.

Health officials dispel rumors of meningitis in San Diego’s gay community

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
April 18th, 2013

SAN DIEGO – Local health officials are disputing a media report that meningitis has been found in San Diego’s gay community, and trying to quell rumors.

An uptick in meningitis cases has been documented in the gay communities of New York City and Los Angeles. Seven men who have sex with men (MSM) have died in New York City since 2010, and at least two MSM have died in Los Angeles since December. Some LGBT activists and community leaders are concerned and trying to prevent further infections or deaths.

At least two gay men have died of meningitis in L.A. in the past 15 months

SDGLN Staff
April 17th, 2013

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – At least two gay men are among the 13 people who have died of meningitis in Los Angeles County in the past 15 months.

Brett Shaad, 33, of West Hollywood died Saturday night after being removed from life support. The lawyer fell ill on Monday, April 8, and didn’t go to an emergency room until Wednesday, April 10. He was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, an inflammation of the lining around the brain, and lapsed into a coma on Thursday and was later declared brain dead.

New York police announce arrests in murder of gay man

LGBTQ Nation Staff
March 22nd, 2013

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department says it has arrested two men in connection with the murder of a gay man earlier this year in his Queens apartment.

Police say Elijah Agyepong of the Bronx was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder.

Meningitis strain is killing gay men in NYC, officials say

ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS - The New York Times
March 22nd, 2013

It is a variant of a disease that can go from a fever and headache to a galloping rash and then to death within hours — so quickly that some victims have been found dead in bed before they could even get to a doctor. Over the last two years, it has appeared only among men, and they often got it, health officials say, through anonymous sexual encounters with other men found through Internet chat rooms or digital apps or at parties, making it all but impossible to trace the path of infection.

Christine Quinn launches bid to be first lesbian mayor of New York City | VIDEO

SDGLN Staff
March 11th, 2013

NEW YORK -- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Sunday officially threw her hat into the ring to be the next mayor of New York City. In a sign of the times, Quinn made the announcement via Twitter, followed by a posting of a video on YouTube.

Quinn, 46, who holds a substantial lead in most polls, is poised to become the first lesbian and the first women elected as mayor of New York City, the nation's largest city.

First, Quinn must survive the Democratic primary in September ahead of the November election. Democrats dominate city politics, with six out of seven registered voters.

New York City lawmaker warns that killer may be targeting gay men

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
February 13th, 2013

NEW YORK — The New York police department is investigating the strangulation deaths of three gay men in Queens and Manhattan in recent weeks.

And while police said they didn’t believe the cases were related, at least one New York City lawmaker is warning gay men that a killer may be targeting them.

Ed Koch and the cost of the closet

Richard Kim - The Nation
February 4th, 2013

The instant beatification of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has a lot of folks itching to do some grave-dancing. Leftists will denounce Koch because he was one of the original neoliberal mayors, ushering in a regime of gentrification and finance-driven inequality that defines the city to this day. Minorities regard him with suspicion because he marginalized the city’s black and Hispanic leadership and inflamed racial fault lines to corner the white vote, presaging the Sister Souljah moments that would come to afflict the national Democratic Party.

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