Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Tomorrow: Blowoff Brooklyn

Saturday night Blowoff returns to Southpaw in Brooklyn where Manhattan’s hirsute will rub furry shoulders with outer-borough homo hipsters. Doors open at 10pm, tickets are $15 advance and at the door. Next month Blowoff makes its Chicago debut on the Saturday night of IML weekend at Metro. Embiggen the image for details. You’ll want to make very sure you get …

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99 Seinfeld References

Brooklyn artist Kiersten Essenpreis has embedded 99 Seinfeld references in this illustration. (Embiggen for better detail.) I think I get just about every single one. Sad? Cool? Go here for a cheat sheet. (Via – Gothamist)

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Police: George Weber Killed By 16 Year-Old Met On Craigslist

Using the murdered gay newsman’s email history, the NYPD has easily found the killer of George Weber, a 16 year-old he met on Craigslist. The killer has confessed. A 16-year-old confessed to stabbing WABC newsman George Weber during a drugged-up date with the older man, police sources said Wednesday. The emotionally disturbed teenager was arrested early Wednesday morning after he …

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Gay Radio Reporter Murdered In Brooklyn

Veteran openly gay ABC radio news reporter George Weber was found stabbed to death in his bed yesterday. Police are speculating that Weber was murdered by a someone he picked up on the internet. WABC newsman George Weber was slain in a struggle so violent that his killer’s blood splattered across the reporter’s Brooklyn home, police sources said Monday. Weber’s …

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Guilty Verdict In Murder Of NY Gay Man, Killer Had Called Victim A “Faggot”

A 18 year-old Brooklyn man was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday for stabbing a 20 year-old gay man to death after calling him a “faggot” and accusing him of coming on to him. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News covered the trial, which nearly ended in a hung jury due to the poor credibility of witnesses. Following a roughly …

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Saturday: NYC Beard Championships

While I have not yet shaved in 2009, I will not compete. I’ve never really had a “full” beard before, always done the #1 or #2 crop. Gotta learn how to do the “shaping” thing.

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Brooklyn Revealed

History buffs will get a kick out of Brooklyn Revealed, a new interactive site launched today by the New York Historical Society. You can click and learn about the six original towns of Brooklyn, which were united 340 years ago by the British to create what would become the most populous borough of the city. Interesting trivia: Brooklyn only voted …

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Anti-Gay Murderers Face 78 Years To Life

The murderers of Jose Sucuzhanay were charged yesterday with second degree murder with hate crimes enhancements and may get from 78 years to life in prison. The two men accused of fatally beating an Ecuadorean immigrant with a bat and a bottle after shouting epithets about Hispanics and gays face 78 years to life in prison if convicted on charges …

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Homophobic Murderer: “So I Killed Someone. That Makes Me A Bad Guy?”

Confessed killer Keith Phoenix is now claiming that his murder of Jose Sucuzhanay was done in self-defense in a street fight “gone bad” and that he doesn’t hate gays. He has been called a monstrous murderer, filled with bias and hate, but in a jailhouse interview on Sunday, Keith Phoenix blamed his Latino victim – and insisted he has nothing …

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2nd Suspect Nabbed In Sucuzhanay Case

One day after local TV stations played toll booth surveillance video showing him laughing and joking minutes after committing a brutal anti-gay murder, Keith Phoenix has been arrested for the killing of Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay. Phoenix’s accomplice was captured and confessed on Wednesday. Sucuzhanay was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat after being mistaken for gay because …

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Arrest Made In Anti-Gay Murder Of Jose Sucazhanay, NYPD Gets Confession

Late Wednesday night, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the NYPD has made an arrest in the brutal murder of Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay (left), who was beaten to death in Brooklyn two months ago when assailants mistook Jose and his brother for gay lovers because they were walking arm in arm. Hakeem Scott, 25, has confessed to the murder, but his …

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Tonight: Blowoff Brooklyn

Blowoff’s bears bounce back to Brooklyn tonight at the Southpaw @ 125 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Directions here. Doors open 10PM. $15, advance tickets here.

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Queerest Real World Debuts

Last night MTV’s The Real World debuted its 20th season with a house cast that includes a gay man, a bisexual woman, and a transgender woman. Could be interesting. The cast house is located in the semi-scary nabe of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Via Good As You, here’s the full first episode.

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Polar Bear Plunge 2009

Hundreds of New Yorkers made their annual Polar Bear Plunge into the icy waters off Coney Island yesterday despite the near-zero temperatures.

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Today: Jose Sucuzhanay Memorial

On Friday, hours before his mother arrived from Ecuador, Jose Sucuzhanay’s heart stopped and he was declared dead. An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten with a bottle and baseball bat last week by men said to be shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday night. Three Sucuzhanay brothers — from left, Romel, Diego …

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Sunday 2PM: Jose Sucuzhanay Vigil

The memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the victim of Saturday’s brutal anti-gay, anti-Latino attack in Brooklyn, will take place Sunday at 2pm at the scene of the hate crime. Facebook link here. Let’s hope the “gays don’t get beaten up enough” crowd has taken notice. Embiggen the image for instructions.

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Police Release Sketch Of Suspect In Brooklyn Attack

Contrary to widely published reports yesterday, the more seriously injured brother of the two attacked in Brooklyn is not dead, but he has been found to have no brain function. The New York Times has amended the story I linked yesterday. Today the NYPD released the sketch at left in the hopes the public can identify the assailants. Police have …

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Killed Because They Thought He Was Gay

One of the two brothers attacked in Brooklyn yesterday has died of his injuries. He was beaten to death with a baseball bat because the attackers thought he and his brother were lovers. The two brothers from Ecuador had attended a church party and had stopped at a bar afterward. They may have been a bit tipsy as they walked …

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The Unkindest Cut

A Jewish man in Queens is suing a European research group for libel because it incorrectly stated that he was uncircumcised. Angered over an online claim that he was not circumcised, a Queens man is suing a research group that mentioned the delicate subject on its Web site. John Singer, 49, is seeking unspecified damages for the allegedly libelous statement …

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Anti-Gay Hate Crime In Brooklyn?

I got several emails from NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office this morning, the last of which said: I was outraged to learn this morning that two men were assaulted at Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, and especially horrified to learn that anti-LGBT and anti-Latino slurs were used by one or more of the assailants – raising this …

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