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A young man was attacked in Prospect Park in another example of the spate of anti-gay bias crimes that has been sweeping New York City this year.

A Manhattan Criminal Court Grand Jury indicted Elliot Morales, accused of shooting and killing a gay man in the West Village last weekend for a hate crime murder.

A man has been arrested in connection with one of several anti-gay attacks in recent days in New York City. Police say Roman Gornell was charged Wednesday with assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes.

NYC’s hate crime spree continued last night when former Philadelphia club promoter Dan Contarino was jumped, kicked and beaten in the East Village by an attacker who shouted anti-gay epithets.

Police have released the name of the victim and suspect of Saturday’s anti-gay killing in Greenwich Village.

Gay men challenge the masculinity of straight men, who, however, find lesbian sex hot. Women also can be athletic or feminine. These are some of the reasons why so many accept lesbians more quickly than gay men in our society.

A mid-January assault on a UCLA student by two men who used anti-gay slurs during the attack is part of a rise in anti-gay attacks in LA.

A New Year’s Eve party in Atlanta turned ugly when 19-year-old Luke O’Donovan stabbed multiple party victims, claiming he was defending himself from a homophobic attack.

Christopher Orlando, 18, from Staten Island was sentenced to only 60 days in jail for his involvement in the attack of Benjamin Carver, 35, at a famous West Village gay bar.

A man, 27, alleges he was chased cross N.E. 26th Street early in the morning and then attacked again by a man in what the victim says is a gay bashing.