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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

Gay Crown Heights Party Promoter Charges Police Brutality

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly 50 people marched on Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct to protest the arrest of Jabbar Campbell, a party promoter who says police assaulted him during an event at his Crown Heights home. The group characterized the January 13 police action against Campbell as an anti-gay attack. “We have to fight back against [...]

January 24, 201353523 Comments2013-01-24+20%3A30%3A45adminRead More

Gay Couple’s Sex Sting Suit Revived

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit filed by a gay male couple caught up in a Michigan sex sting. A three-judge panel, on January 7, held that District Judge Gerald E. Rosen erred in dismissing claims by Randy Alman and Michael Barnes, an Indiana couple, in [...]

January 11, 20135281No Comment2013-01-11+18%3A38%3A58adminRead More

Renato Seabra Gets 25-to-Life in Grisly Carlos Castro Slaying

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Calling the murder of Carlos Castro a “chilling example of the manifestation of man’s inhumanity to man” that was fraught with “sadism,” a judge sentenced Renato Seabra to 25-years-to-life in the 2011 slaying. “The sentence will be –– not in knee-jerk fashion, but considered –– 25-to-life,” said Daniel P. FitzGerald in [...]

December 21, 201247964 Comments2012-12-21+19%3A24%3A19adminRead More

Seabra Defense Experts Spun Variation on ‘Gay Panic’ Argument

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In his closing statement in the murder trial of Renato Seabra, David Touger told a Manhattan jury that “Renato got caught in a situation he couldn’t handle and it drove him crazy.” Seabra, now 23, was convicted on November 30 on one count of second-degree murder in the 2011 killing of Carlos [...]

December 5, 201245112 Comments2012-12-05+18%3A55%3A33adminRead More

Second-Degree Murder Conviction for Renato Seabra in Grisly Carlos Castro Slay

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | After deliberating for roughly a day, a Manhattan jury convicted Renato Seabra of second-degree murder in the 2011 killing of Carlos Castro, a 65-year-old Portuguese TV personality. “This was a brutal and sadistic crime, where Renato Seabra bludgeoned, choked, and mutilated his victim before murdering him,” District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., [...]

November 30, 201244911 Comment2012-12-01+01%3A03%3A39adminRead More

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