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NYPD seeks assault suspects who hurled anti-gay slurs on subway
NEW YORK — New York City police are asking for the public’s help in locating two men who allegedly hurled anti-gay slurs at a group on a subway train and allegedly shoved a woman to the floor as she videotaped the incident.
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D.C. police investigating six attacks in LGBT community in recent weeks
WASHINGTON — Police in the District of Columbia are investigating six reported attacks, which include a fatal shooting, a beating, a stabbing, a sexual assault, and two non life-threatening shootings against members of the LGBT community over the past two weeks.
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Israeli police arrest three suspects in 2009 shooting at gay youth center
TEL AVIV — Israeli police have arrested three suspects in connection with a shooting at Tel-Aviv’s gay youth center that took place in 2009. The three suspects were arrested Wednesday and will appear in court Thursday for a remand hearing.
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Police arrest two men in beating of gay men in New York City
NEW YORK — Two men were arrested in connection with the beating of two gay men in Manhattan early Friday and police are investigating whether there is a link to an earlier anti-gay attack in the same area on Sunday.
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Paris gay couple say they were beaten amid rise in homophobic attacks
PARIS — A gay couple in Paris said they were attacked and beaten on Saturday for walking arm-in-arm in what LGBT advocates in the country say is indicative of a rise in anti-gay attacks in France since Parliament began debating a measure that would legalize same-sex marriage.
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Victim of Thanksgiving Day attack says beating was not a hate crime
MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama woman who was allegedly beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, says the attack was not a hate crime, and is now recovering at the home of her attacker’s parents where the assault occurred just days ago.
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Family says Thanksgiving beating of lesbian was a ‘hate crime’
MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama man has been charged with second-degree assault for brutally beating a woman because she is in a relationship with his sister and he does not approve.
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N.Y. gay rights leader, victim of brutal attack, dies after being removed from life support
QUEENS, N.Y. — A prominent figure in the local gay community died Thursday after being removed from life support. Lou Rispoli, 62, died from injuries sustained in a savage, early morning attack last week.
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N.Y. gay rights activist, community leader near death after savage beating
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.
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Three indicted on hate crime charges for June D.C. stabbing
A D.C. Superior Court Grand Jury has indicted two men and a woman on hate crime charges in connection with the June stabbing of a 16-year-old male outside D.C.’s Howard Theatre whom the defendants believed to be gay.