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Leader of NYC street gang pleads guilty in brutal 2010 anti-gay attack
NEW YORK — The reputed leader of a New York City street gang has pleaded guilty in a beating authorities called one of the worst cases of anti-gay violence in the city’s history.
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N.Y. radio hosts suspended over homophobic parent hoax
NEW YORK — Two Long Island radio personalities have been suspended over an on-air hoax about a homophobic parent.
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Gay rights activists protest outside NYC Russian consulate
NEW YORK — More than 100 members of the gay activist group Queer Nation and others who oppose the Russian government’s continued attacks on human rights, including the rights of LGBT Russians, marked the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games with a raucous protest directly in front of the Russian consulate in New York City at noon today.
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De Blasio to skip NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over ban on gay pride signs
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won’t be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because organizers refuse to allow participants to carry gay pride signs.
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Barneys highlights lives of transgender models in spring ad campaign
NEW YORK — Barneys New York, an American retail chain of luxury department stores, has partnered with the National Center for Transgender Equality and the New York LGBT Community Center to feature the lives and stories of 17 transgender models and their family members as part of its Spring advertising campaign.
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Suspect arrested in brutal beating of NYC gay journalist
NEW YORK — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the beating of a gay journalist on a New York City street.
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NYPD investigating brutal beating of gay journalist as possible bias attack
NEW YORK — New York City police are investigating the beating of an openly gay journalist last week as a possible bias attack.
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Activist group protests outside ‘Today’ show over NBC Olympic coverage
NEW YORK — A dozen members of the gay rights activist group Queer Nation demonstrated outside the broadcast of NBC’s Today Show on Thursday, demanding that NBC report on the Russian government’s ongoing attacks on LGBT people and its and other human rights violations.
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Recently married gay man dies after trying to escape NYC high-rise fire
NEW YORK — A New York man died and his newlywed husband was critically injured after trying to escape a fire that erupted in their high-rise Manhattan apartment building Sunday morning.
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Suspect in fatal attack on transgender woman released
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in New York on Tuesday dismissed a misdemeanor assault charge against a Harlem man who had been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a transgendered woman in Harlem.