Hell's Kchen Gay Bars React to Attacks on Queer Men

Contents:

• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• 34-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRTED HELL'S KCHEN GAY BAR SERIAL VANDALISM
• A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WAS VANDALIZED THREE TIM LAST WEEK
• HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

A spect was bted Tuday the strg of attacks on a Hell’s Kchen gay bar — and allegedly told ps he was jt “exactg revenge” on behalf of a gal pal fdg wh the club, police said.

34-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRTED HELL'S KCHEN GAY BAR SERIAL VANDALISM

“I’m gay myself, ” Kuilan said as he was led out of a police vehicle and rted to urt handcuffs on Tuday eveng. The ctomers were not jured, thanks to the shatterproof pane stalled by owner David DeParola — who said was a preutn agast anti-gay attacks. “Even sce then, there was a Zoom meetg wh lol gay bar owners and the precct clost to that was tend to help crease munitn between .

Tuday, November 22, 2022HELL'S KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A man was arrted the serial vandalism of a gay bar Hell's Kchen on Tuday morng.

Eyewns News exclively ptured a man enterg an unmarked police van after officers spent hours si a Hell's Kchen apartment buildg where they believe he say the spect, intified as 34-year-old Sean Kuilan, hurled a brick at the wdow of a gay bar Hell's Kchen three tim the last has been charged wh crimal posssn of a weapon, crimal mischief and reckls had prevly released vio of one of the cints, clearly showg a man throwg a rock through the wdow of VERS on 9th Avenue Saturday night, hours before a gunman killed five people and wound more than a dozen others at Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ bar Colorado Tuday morng, Eyewns News reporter Derick Waller spoke to neighbors who regnized the man police had been lookg for.

A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WAS VANDALIZED THREE TIM LAST WEEK

"I'm worried about what the next move uld be and whether they would do to other gay bars the neighborhood, " bar owner David DeParola asked about this ongog fd wh his staff the bar owner said he don't regnize the spect at READ | Mother seekg answers when son found ad after night out NYC----------* Get Eyewns News Delivered * More Manhattan news* Send a news tip* Download the abc7NY app for breakg news alerts * Follow on YouTube Subm a tip or story ia to Eyewns News Have a breakg news tip or an ia for a story we should ver?

Someone threw a brick through the wdow at Vers, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, three tim last week, owner David DeParola tells Gothamist.

Dpe claimg to report each cint to the NYPD’s Hate Crim Task Force, the Vers owner tells Gothamist he felt the rponse was allegedly dismissive: “I said, ‘We uld be targeted bee we’re a gay bar, ’” the owner shared wh Gothamist. Bar operators Manhattan's heavily gay Hell's Kchen neighborhood say they're takg steps to protect patrons reactn to the killgs of two men last year. " Authori have said the crim were motivated by greed and the victims were not targeted for beg gay.

HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN

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A lol gay man was arrted on Tuday for the recent brick attacks on a popular Hell's Kchen gay bar NYC. Sean Kuilan, 34, was taken to ctody and charged wh crimal mischief, reckls endangerment, and crimal posssn of a weapon for three of the four cints at the VERS gay nightclub which took place wh the past two weeks, The Gothamist reports. Three of the cints were ught on vio, and Kuilan was intified wh the help of tips to the Crime Stoppers chief of tectiv Jam Essig said vtigators do not believe the crim were motivated by anti-gay hatred, but stead rulted om a personal dispute Kuilan's female iend had wh the VERS nightclub.

"I'm gay myself, " he quietly rpond to reporters' qutns the vio.