Pair of violent homophobic attacks rock New York City

[ruggerson]

A pair of violent homophobic attacks have rocked the city's most gay-friendly neighborhoods - including one inside the West Village bar considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement.

Shocked customers at the Stonewall Inn chased Matthew Francis, 21, and Christopher Orlando, 17, both of Staten Island, after the pair yelled gay slurs and pummeled a man during an attempted robbery early Sunday, said cops.

"New York, I still love you," the victim, Benjamin Carver, 34, of Washington, D.C., wrote on his Facebook page as he waited at a hospital to get stitches.

In the second attack, Andrew Jackson, 20, was busted on charges he and a pack of pals brutally set upon three gay men Friday night at 25th St. and Ninth Ave. in Chelsea. The victims were kissing and hugging good night after dinner.


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/04/2010-10-04_hate_crime_probe_as_man_is_badly_betaen_in_restroom_at_bar_that_launched_gayrigh.html

[proteus_lives]

1. In Stonewall?

Christ!

Those idiots are lucky they didn't get stomped to death.

[TexasObserver]

2. Important topic, but everyone is down the street watching a house fire.

[Norrin Radd]

3. kicking so people see the story.

[Sinistrous]

4. Kick so the day shift can see it.

[Bluebear]

5. No one can prove they were specifically going after homosexuals!

:sarcasm: