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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. [ Read more → ]

NEW YORK -- A 23-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Joseph Benzinger, a 54-year-old gay man who was found strangled on Saturday in a Queens, N.Y. motel. [ Read more → ]

Lou Rispoli, a well-respected and beloved community leader in the Queens, N.Y., gay neighborhood of Sunnyside, has been removed from life support and remains in hospice care, the result of an early morning attack last week. He is not expected to survive. [ Read more → ]

QUEENS, N.Y. -- A fifth grade student in Queens, N.Y., who earlier this week was prohibited from reading an essay on marriage equality that he wrote for a school competition, will be allowed to recite his essay during a special assembly. [ Read more → ]

Lambda Legal on Thursday filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Sizzler Restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, on behalf a woman who was targeted because "she did not conform to the stereotypes of how a woman should look," according to the complaint. [ Read more → ]

A lesbian teacher has been fired from her job at St. Francis Prep School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, after launching her website, "Burn and Rot in Hell!". [ Read more → ]

Five New York area teens have been arrested in the fatal beating of Anthony Collao at a party hosted by two gay men last weekend. Collao, 18, was beaten to death by the teens who yelled anti-gay slurs during the attack. [ Read more → ]

A Queens man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for viscous 2009 attack on an openly gay man outside a College Point deli. Daniel Rodriguez, 22, pleaded guilty last year to first-degree robbery as a hate crime in the attack on 49-year-old Jack Price. [ Read more → ]

Two Queens men who allegedly taunted, stomped and robbed a gay man last fall have been indicted on hate-crime charges. The indictment filed Thursday morning charges defendants Daniel Aleman, 26, and Daniel Rodriguez, 21 [...] [ Read more → ]

QUEENS, N.Y. -- Scores of people marched on College Point, Queens in a rally against hate, after a gay man was brutally beaten last week, reports WPIX-TV. Preaching tolerance, protestors marched down College Point Boulevard from 20th Avenue to 14th Avenue Saturday. A diverse coalition... [ Read more → ]

The gay Queens man whose brutal beating was caught on tape spoke out for the first time Friday, saying he didn't expect to survive the attack. "I thought I died," Jack Price, 49, told the Daily News from his bed at New York Hospital Queens.... [ Read more → ]

A second man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a brutal attack in Queens last week that left a gay man hospitalized, The New York Times reports. The victim, Jack Price, 49, was harassed and assaulted by two men early Friday morning as he... [ Read more → ]