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Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE AND PAUL SCHINDLER | Port Authority police made two arrests in a May 10 assault on a gay couple outside a PATH station entrance at 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue. The attack came five days after two other gay men, Nick Porto and Kevin Atkins, were pushed to the ground and punched in the [...]

May 13, 201367774 Comments2013-05-13+20%3A13%3A58adminRead More

City Law Department Says Mayor’s Office Ordered Video Store Busts

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Material unearthed in a federal lawsuit brought by a gay man who charges he was falsely arrested for prostitution in a Manhattan porn shop in 2008 suggests the Bloomberg administration was actively involved in directing such prostitution arrests at that time. Police arrested at least 30 men for prostitution in at least [...]

April 24, 2013661024 Comments2013-04-24+17%3A08%3A56adminRead More

Two May Memorials for Slain Queens Gay Activist

BY ANDY HUMM | The brutal and mysterious murder of Queens gay community leader Lou Rispoli, 62, on October 20 of last year has yet to be solved. But his friends and loved ones will remember him on two occasions in May, with a concert and a memorial service in his honor. Lou Rispoli to be [...]

April 24, 20136615No Comment2013-04-24+15%3A45%3A42adminRead More

Officer Says Cruiser Extraordinarily Aggressive in 2010 Newark Park Killing

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The Essex County sheriff’s officer who shot and killed an unarmed DeFarra Gaymon during a 2010 public sex sting in a Newark park described the 48-year-old Gaymon as aggressive and repeatedly threatening him in a statement that was written three days after the July 16 shooting. “Gaymon walked within on [sic] of [...]

April 16, 2013657710 Comments2013-04-16+16%3A02%3A48adminRead More

Elmo Puppeteer Accusers Use Novel Legal Theory

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Three of the four men who have sued puppeteer Kevin Clash are using a legal theory that asserts their cases should proceed despite the statute of limitations having run out because they only recently realized they were harmed by the sexual encounters they allege they had with Clash when they were underage. [...]

March 26, 20136266No Comment2013-03-27+02%3A00%3A28adminRead More

Panel on Police Abuses Highlights Obstacles to Reform

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A discussion among some leading critics of New York City’s police department showcased the extent to which reforming that agency may be very difficult to achieve. “The police department has institutionalized policies and practices that are designed to target communities of color and poor communities,” said Susan Tipograph, a past president of [...]

March 21, 201362201 Comment2013-03-21+16%3A34%3A36adminRead More

Need on Subways: Security and A Sense of Community

BY CHRIS PHILLIPS | I spent that Saturday afternoon in 2008 grilling hamburgers at my church’s Pride picnic. Then I met my partner for a celebratory margarita or two at the Monster. As it started to rain, we headed across Christopher Street for the downtown subway. I remember being glad we didn’t have to stand on [...]

February 27, 201358574 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A01%3A33adminRead More

Man Killed in Newark Sex Sting Helpless When Officer Shot, Lawsuit Says

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | New documents filed in a lawsuit suggest that a sheriff’s deputy may have had DeFarra Gaymon under control just before he shot and killed the unarmed man during a 2010 public sex sting in a Newark park. “Officer Esposito chased decedent Gaymon to a pond located within the park,” wrote Christopher W. [...]

February 20, 2013574323 Comments2013-02-21+00%3A30%3A20adminRead More

Three Gay Murders Highlight Online Hook-Up Risks

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In the wake of three murders of middle-aged gay men in separate incidents just two weeks apart, elected officials and anti-violence advocates are warning the community about the dangers of online hook-ups. David Rangel, 53, was found dead under the couch in his Jackson Heights, Queens, apartment on January 26, apparently the [...]

February 13, 201355585 Comments2013-02-13+19%3A41%3A59adminRead More

Appeals Court Finds Right to Inmate Sex Reassignment

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A January 28 decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit may be the first by a federal appellate court to hold that an inmate may, under certain circumstances, have a right to gender reassignment surgery as a medically necessary procedure. A unanimous panel of that court ruled [...]

January 31, 201356222 Comments2013-02-01+01%3A56%3A15adminRead More

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