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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, […]