Friday, July 4, 2008

New York Bashing Lands Gay Man in Emergency Room

by Paul Schindler
Gay City News

A gay man returning home on the subway early Saturday evening, June 28, with his partner after a church LGBT pride picnic was harassed and beaten by a heterosexual couple after the gay men boarded at Christopher Street. On a crowded, Brooklyn-bound Seventh Avenue train making local stops, the male assailant, seeing that the victim was carrying a copy of Gay City News, said, "You people make me sick, you're disgusting," and began to pummel his face, breaking his glasses, and causing an injury below his eye that required seven stitches. The victim, who asked that his name not be published out of fear of reprisal, said the woman also clawed him with her nails.

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