Tag Archives: Daniel Hauff

In January I told you about Daniel Hauff, the Chicago gay man who fended off three homophobic attackers on Chicago’s public transit by falsely telling them he was HIV-positive. Hauff had come to the defense of a gay kid whom the men had been harassing and was beaten and called a “faggot” for intervening. Yesterday all three men were indicted …

When a gay man got attacked by three thugs yelling anti-gay slurs on the Chicago subway yesterday, he pretended to be HIV-positive to escape. Daniel Hauff, 33, said he tried to quell a dispute between two men on the train when one of them, joined by two other riders, began yelling gay slurs and other taunts at him. Hauff said …