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News (USA)
School blamed gay student for the horrific bullying he endured. His two dads are suing.
The child was allegedly told he was “destined to burn in hell” and the school told him to stop talking about being gay. Fortunately, his dads knew what he was going through.
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News (USA)
Employee fired for publishing man’s name & HIV status in misleading report
CBS published (then deleted) an article that made it seem that HIV could be spread through saliva. Even worse – the police officers that supplied the info are still promoting that as fact.
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Life
Frank Ocean’s ‘homage’ party to ’80s club scene doesn’t sit well with LGBTQ community
Being one of the world’s most successful LGBTQ entertainers didn’t make the singer immune to heavy criticism from his own community.
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News (USA)
Catholic priest tells Trump protesters to kill themselves: #JumpAgainstTrump
Rev. Philip Rizzo defended his post, saying he just thought the “Jump Against Trump’’ meme was “funny.” Church officials and his parishioners didn’t find it humorous.
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News (USA)
Man arrested at gay beach when towel slips off waist for a moment
Photographer Krys Fox was working on a photo series while his wet bathing shorts dried in the sun.
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News (USA)
New York names Queens street after pioneering gay rights family
NEW YORK — A street in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens has been named in honor of the founder of PFLAG and her family. Officials have formally designated 171st Street between 33rd and 35th Avenues as “Jeanne, Jules, Morty Manford PFLAG Way.”
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News (USA)
NYC mayor marches in Queens’ gay friendly ‘St. Pat’s For All Parade’
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who plans to skip the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because participants are banned from carrying signs or banners identifying themselves as gay, joined the gay-friendly St. Pat’s For All Parade Sunday, saying it honors the traditions of the city by celebrating inclusion.
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News (USA)
New York police announce arrests in murder of gay man
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.
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News (USA)
Man charged in murder of New York gay man at Queens motel
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.
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News (USA)
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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News (USA)
Banned from contest, 5th grader OK’d to recite gay marriage essay at school assembly
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.
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News (USA)
Lambda Legal files suit over homophobic attack at Sizzler restaurant in New York
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.
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News (USA)
Lesbian teacher fired from Catholic school after launching ‘burn in hell’ website
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!”.
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News (USA)
Five New York teens arrested in brutal, anti-gay Queens murder
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.
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News (USA)
Queens man sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2009 gay bashing
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.
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News (USA)
2 men indicted in hate crime attack on gay man in Queens NY
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 […]
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News (USA)
Queens Residents Rally for Anti-Hate March
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 of Queens residents, activists and community organizations carried signs and […]
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News (USA)
Gay man Jack Price, beaten in Queens, talks about attack
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. “I was bleeding all over the place.” With tubes running […]
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News (USA)
Second man arrested in New York assult on gay man
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 was leaving a deli in College Point. During the attack, […]