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Catholic priest tells Trump protesters to kill themselves: #JumpAgainstTrump

Thursday, February 2, 2017

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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Man arrested at gay beach when towel slips off waist for a moment

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Photographer Krys Fox was working on a photo series while his wet bathing shorts dried in the sun.

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New York names Queens street after pioneering gay rights family

Friday, May 2, 2014

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…

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NYC mayor marches in Queens’ gay friendly ‘St. Pat’s For All Parade’

Sunday, March 2, 2014

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…

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New York police announce arrests in murder of gay man

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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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Man charged in murder of New York gay man at Queens motel

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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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N.Y. gay rights activist, community leader near death after savage beating

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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.…

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Banned from contest, 5th grader OK’d to recite gay marriage essay at school assembly

Saturday, June 16, 2012

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…

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Lambda Legal files suit over homophobic attack at Sizzler restaurant in New York

Friday, July 29, 2011

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…

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Lesbian teacher fired from Catholic school after launching ‘burn in hell’ website

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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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