Tag Archives: hate crimes

CLEVELAND: Gay Man Attacked By Mob Of 20, Police Investigate As Hate Crime

Cleveland’s WKYC reports: A man walking to a bar on Cleveland’s west side overnight Sunday was attacked in what police are calling a hate crime. Jared Fox says he was walking from his car toward Cocktails bar, a well-known gay bar, on West 93rd Street and Detroit Avenue just before midnight Saturday. Fox says a group of 20 young men …

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NYC Council Offers Free Self-Defense Training For LGBT Community

Via press release: Following the brutal killing of a transgender woman in Harlem last week, Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the City Council LGBT Caucus, Council Member Robert Jackson and Council Member Inez Dickens today announced they will sponsor a free, community-wide self-defense class in Manhattan. “New Yorkers must trust that they can walk down the street without fear of being …

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Islan Nettles Vigil Rescheduled

From the Facebook page of the NYC Anti-Violence Project: “At the request of Ms. Nettles’ family, the vigil originally planned for Monday will be rescheduled to a date later in the week. Harlem Pride and AVP will keep you updated on the new time and place.”  Nettles, a 21 year-old transgender woman, was murdered in Harlem last week by a …

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NEW YORK CITY: Transgender Woman Dies After Savage Attack In Harlem

Islan Nettles, 21, was taken off life support yesterday after what police describe as a brutal beating by a man shouting homophobic slurs in Harlem on Saturday night. Nettles was out with several other transgender women at 11 p.m. Saturday when she ran across a group of men near West 148th Street and Eighth Avenue — directly across from the …

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QUEENS: Interracial Married Straight Couple Gay Bashed By Three Thugs

On Saturday a married straight interracial couple was attacked in Long Island City, Queens by three thugs who shouted homophobic slurs and racial epithets. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel say they and a gay friend had been celebrating Billie James-Vogel’s 40th birthday in Long Island City and were attacked when they left the bar. They say three men from a nearby …

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Just In From The NYPD

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has issued a statement via press release: This kind of an anti-gay attack is unacceptable anywhere, but for it to happen in Chelsea which has such a large LGBT population is particularly shocking. And what’s worse is that this is happening after a summer of repeated attacks on members of the LGBT attack …

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NYT Op-Doc: An Attack On Equality

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Petition Of The Day

Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims writes: The time has come for our Pennsylvania Human Relations Act to include a basic level of protection for members of the LGBT community in Pennsylvania. That’s why I’ve not only co-sponsored House Bill 300 this legislative session, but am also working hard with Prime Sponsors Rep. Dan Frankel and Rep. Chris Ross to build …

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NEW YORK CITY: Lawyer For Killer Of Mark Carson To Present Insanity Defense

The lawyer for Elliot Morales, the man who murdered Mark Carson on a West Village street corner in May, said yesterday that he intends to present an insanity defense. Court-appointed defense lawyer Kevin Canfield served notice that he intends to present psychiatric evidence at trial. “It could be temporary insanity,” Canfield told reporters, declining to describe Morales’ reported mental state …

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LONG ISLAND: Four Males Charged In Hate Crime Bashing Of Gay Couple

Suffolk County police have charged four males in the hate crime assault of two gay men in Babylon, Long Island. The four suspects were walking down Deer Park Avenue in Babylon around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, when they asked two men for directions to the train station, according to Suffolk County police. They went on to punch, kick and shove the …

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CHILE: Teenager To Lose Leg After Brutal Gay-Bashing By Machete-Wielding Thugs

A 19 year-old Chilean teenager will have his leg amputated after a brutal homophobic attack by six thugs. Gay Star News reports: Esteban Navarro, 19, is struggling to stay alive in hospital as he recovers from the multiple injuries he suffered from the savage attack. On 23 June, he was jumped on by a group of six holding knives, iron …

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Mark Carson’s Killer Pleads Not Guilty

Even though he repeatedly boasted about the crime at the time of his arrest, today Elliot Morales (left) pleaded not guilty to the hate crime murder of Mark Carson, who was shot in the face on a West Village street last month. “He thought he was tough, and I shot him. It’s the last thing he’ll remember,” Elliot Morales, 33, …

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Bar Association Group Issues Resolution Against Gay & Trans “Panic” Defenses

Via press release: The National LGBT Bar Association applauds the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section for taking up a resolution to protect victims of so called gay and trans “panic” legal defenses. The resolution supports the LGBT community by no longer allowing defense attorneys to use victims’ identities or their sexual orientation against them in court. “This resolution puts …

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Gay Man Murdered In Russia

A gay man in Russia’s Kamchatka region has been kicked and stabbed to death by his neighbors.  The suspects, three men in the village of Zaporozhye, allegedly killed a man on Wednesday “because their fellow villager had a non-traditional sexual orientation,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement, using a euphemism for gay. “The victim died at the scene from …

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Seen On The Upper West Side

JMG reader James sends us the above chilling graffiti he spotted in the subway station at West 72nd and Central Park West.

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New York City To Conduct Self-Defense Training For The LGBT Community

Via press release from the office of New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn: Following a string of hate crimes against LGBT New Yorkers, Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the City Council LGBT Caucus today announced they will host a series of free self-defense trainings across the City. The trainings will empower New Yorkers by teaching violence prevention strategies and …

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The Three-Pronged Pitchfork Of Bigotry

“The first prong is political. When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. “The …

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Yet Another Gay Bashing in Manhattan

NY1 has the details: A Manhattan teenager is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly assaulted a co-founder of a local gay rights group in Hell’s Kitchen yesterday. Manuel Riquelme, 19, is charged with hate crime and aggravated harassment after allegedly hitting Eugene Lovendusky, 28, a Queens resident and co-founder of Queer Rising, an LGBT rights and advocacy group. Police …

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Mark Carson Vs Jodi Arias

Carlos Maza writes at Equality Matters: According to an Equality Matters analysis, while all three major cable news networks extensively covered Arias’ trial and her plea to jurors to avoid the death penalty, CNN spent less than one minute discussing Carson’s murder, and Fox News ignored the story completely. Only MSNBC devoted a full segment to Carson’s murder, rightly pointing …

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NEW YORK CITY: Grand Jury Indicts Elliot Morales For Murder Of Mark Carson, Lawyer Claims Morales Was Sexually Abused As A Child

This afternoon a New York City grand jury formally indicted Elliot Morales (left) for the murder of Mark Carson. Multiple charges include second-degree murder as a hate crime. Morales’ lawyer pleaded “not guilty” even though Morales bragged about the murder during his arrest. The lawyer, Kevin Michael Canfield, later said Morales is not guilty of the slaying and is “devastated …

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