Gay NYC Council Member Rponds to Anti-LGBTQ+ Vandalism Agast Him

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• GET OUT! MAGAZE – NYC’S GAY MAGAZE
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• ROBBERI AFFECTG NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE ILLUMATED BY GRIEVG MOM: 'THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG'
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• GAY NYC COUNCILMAN ERIK BOTTCHER OFFERED POLICE PROTECTN AFTER HOME TARGETED‘PRETTY SHOCKING’ERIK BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THE CINT AT HIS HOME SHOWED NEW YORK CY WAS NOT “IMMUNE” TO ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISM, AND “WE HAVE TO NTUE FIGHTG.”TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 20, 2022 3:10PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 20, 2022 1:55PM EST EXCLIVECHANCE YEH/GETTY IMAG FOR HOG WORKSGAY NEW YORK CY UNCIL MEMBER ERIK BOTTCHER HAS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MAYOR ERIC ADAMS AND THE NYPD HAVE OFFERED “ANY AND ALL SUPPORT AND PROTECTN” AFTER HIS APARTMENT BUILDG WAS BIEGED BY ANTI-DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR PROTTERS, AND THE SIWALK FACED WH HATEFUL, HOMOPHOBIC SLURS DIRECTED AGAST HIM, CLUDG “OK GROOMER,” “CHILD PREDATOR,” AND ERIK BOCCHER (SIC) IS A PEDO CHILD GROOMER!” TWO WOMEN WERE ARRTED AFTER A GROUP OF PROTTERS TURNED UP AT HIS APARTMENT BUILDG CHELSEA LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE CINT OCCURRED AFTER BOTTCHER’S NEARBY OFFICE WAS VANDALIZED BY PROTTERS WHO ENTERED THE BUILDG TWO HOURS EARLIER. POLICE SAY NO ARRTS WERE MA FOLLOWG THAT CINT.“THE MAYOR ME HERE TO MY HOME LAST NIGHT PERSONALLY,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST TUDAY. “HE AND THE NYPD ARE OFFERG ANY AND ALL SUPPORT AND PROTECTN THAT I NEED. I’VE CLED HAVG A R PARKED OUT ONT. BUT I KNOW THAT IS AN OPTN THAT IS OPEN TO ME IF I NEED . THE MAYOR TOLD ME HE AND HIS ENTIRE ADMISTRATN ARE STANDG WH ME. THE SUPPORT OM PEOPLE GENERALLY HAS BEEN OVERWHELMG AND ABSOLUTELY HEARTENG. IT DON’T SURPRISE ME BEE NEW YORKERS ARE VERY LOVG AND SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE, BUT ’S EVEN MORE THAN I WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.”IN A TWEET, ADAMS WROTE: “THIS IS OUTRAGEO. COMPLETELY OUTRAGEO. ERIK, YOU STAND UP FOR OUR CY EVERY SGLE DAY AND THE WARDLY BIGOTS HAVE NO PLACE HERE. THANK YOU TO THE NYPD FOR YOUR QUICK WORK AND SENDG THE MSAGE THAT THIS HATE WILL NOT GO UNCHALLENGED.” BOTTCHER, WHOSE DISTRICT ENPASS CHELSEA, HELL’S KCHEN, AND GREENWICH VILLAGE, ALSO POSTED VIO OF ONE OF HIS NEIGHBORS ALLEGEDLY BEG PHYSILLY ASSLTED BY THE ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISTS. HE SAID POLICE WERE VTIGATG THE CINT; THE NYPD HAS YET TO RPOND TO NFIRM THIS TO THE DAILY BEAST. POLICE NAMED THE TWO WOMEN ARRTED AT BOTTCHER’S RINCE AS ERI SANCHEZ, 44, OM THE BRONX, AND D’ANNA MAN, 27, OM QUEENS. BOTH WERE CHARGED WH CRIMAL TRPASS. THE DAILY BEAST UNRSTANDS THAT THE WOMEN ENTERED THE LOBBY, AND IALLY REFED TO LEAVE AFTER THE BUILDG’S SUPERTENNT ASKED THEM TO. THEY THEN DID SO BEFORE PS ARRIVED. THE NEW YORK POST REPORTED THAT THE GROUP THAT TARGETED BOTTCHER’S OFFICE IS LLED GUARDIANS OF DIVY.THE CINT IS THE LATT A WAVE OF ACTIVY AIMED AT DRAG EVENTS ACROSS THE UNTRY, ENFLAMED BY ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC BY POLICIANS AND RIGHT WG MEDIA. BOTH ADAMS AND THE NYPD HAVE YET TO RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S QUTNS ABOUT ANY PLANS TO CREASE SECURY OR SAFETY PROVISNS FOR DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND LGBTQ PEOPLE GENERALLY THE CY, AS WELL AS WHAT MONORG LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER AGENCI ARE NDUCTG AROUND THE ACTIVI OF ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISTS AS THEY MAKE THEIR PRENCE MORE VISIBLE.“I FEEL FE THIS MORNG,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT WAS PRETTY SHOCKG LAST NIGHT. I ALWAYS KNEW THE BACK OF MY HEAD THAT THEY WOULD E TO MY HOE, BUT WHEN I LOOKED DOWN AT MY PHONE AND I HAD ALL THE MISSED LLS OM MY NEIGHBORS MY BUILDG, I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT MEANT. I KNEW THEY WERE AT MY HOME.”THE CINTS FOLLOWED A DRAG READG EVENT OVER THE WEEKEND FOR NRODIVERSE CHILDREN AT A LIBRARY CHELSEA, AT WHICH BOTTCHER FILMED PROTTERS’ ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AND POSTED ONLE. BOTTCHER SAID HE BELIEV HE WAS THEN TARGETED AFTER FILMG THE PROTTERS, “AND SHOWG THE WORLD THEIR SIGNS AND WHAT THEY WERE SAYG. THEY DIDN’T LIKE THAT. I THK THEY’RE EPLY TROUBLED PEOPLE, AND THE SAME KDS OF DIVIDUALS WHO HAVE TRIED TO SHUT DOWN VACCE CLICS, AND WHO HAVE FACED BLACK LIV MATTER MURALS. THE ARE PEOPLE WHO HARBOR FAR RIGHT-WG VIEWS ACROSS THE BOARD AND WHO NSUME AND SUBSCRIBE TO NSPIRACY THEORI.”THE HATEFUL MSAG SUBSEQUENTLY SCRAWLED ON THE SIWALK “DIDN’T BOTHER ME AT ALL PERSONALLY,” BOTTCHER SAID. “WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST IS THAT MY FAY IS ALSO SEEG , AND I DON’T WANT THEM TO THK THAT I AM UNSAFE. THEY’RE NCERNED. THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE NCERNED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WHEN I STARED SPEAKG OUT AGAST THE PEOPLE. THEY WANT ME TO BE REFUL—LIKE ANY PARENTS WOULD BE.” HE HAD NOT RECEIVED ANY ATH THREATS OR OTHER THREATS, HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I PERSONALLY DON’T FEEL UNSAFE. I’VE BEEN TOLD BY PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE SMART TO BE FEEL UNSAFE, BUT I FEEL VERY PROTECTED AND SURROUND BY THE MUNY. THE NYPD WAS GREAT YTERDAY. MY NEIGHBORS NONTED THE PROTTERS, AND SHOUTED AT THEM AND FEND ME. I’M REALLY TOUCHED BY THEIR RPONSE, BUT NOT SURPRISED BEE WHAT THOSE PROTTERS BELIEVE AND DO IS NTRARY TO EVERYTHG WE BELIEVE .” “HERE NEW YORK CY WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HOLD EXTREME FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS, AND THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE CY AND SOME OF THEM LIVE MY DISTRICT, ONE OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE DISTRICTS THE UNTRY.”— ERIK BOTTCHER BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WISHED HE WAS SURPRISED THAT THE CINTS OCCURRED THE PROGRSIVE, LONG LGBTQ-OCCUPIED NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHELSEA, “BUT HERE NEW YORK CY WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HOLD EXTREME FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS, AND THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE CY AND SOME OF THEM LIVE MY DISTRICT, ONE OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE DISTRICTS THE UNTRY. SOME OF THEM ARE TLY UNHGED AND NSUME THE FAR-RIGHT NSPIRACY THEORI.”“NO PLACE IS IMMUNE TO WHAT IS HAPPENG,” HE NTUED. “IT AFFECTS ALL RNERS OF OUR UNTRY, AND QUE ANKLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. WE N’T PRETEND THAT WE ARE A BUBBLE HERE. Y, NEW YORK IS A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE AND DIVERSY FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, BUT THERE ARE SIGNIFINT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS.“WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS VERY, VERY SERLY BEE THE EXTREME RHETORIC OM RIGHT-WG POLICIANS AND PEOPLE ON THE TER MANIFTS SELF REAL LIFE EVENTS. WE’VE SEEN HAPPEN OVER AND OVER AGA. WE SAW HAPPEN COLORADO A FEW WEEKS AGO [AT THE CLUB Q MASS SHOOTG COLORADO SPRGS]. THAT’S WHY WE NEED TO STAND UP TO , AND THAT’S WHY PEOPLE POSNS OF FLUENCE NEED TO STOP AMPLIFYG THIS CRAP.“MY PERSONAL THEORY IS THAT THE ARE PEOPLE WHO HARBOR FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS AND ARE JT CHOOSG TO WEAPONIZE THE ISSU AS PART OF THE FAR-RIGHT NSPIRACY ECHO CHAMBER. I THK THEY ARE G DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AS A VSEL TO WHIP UP FAR-RIGHT ANGER AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY, AND ’S ALSO JT THE LATT TOOL THAT THE FAR RIGHT IS G TO NJURE THE EVIL TROP ABOUT OUR MUNY.” “LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FACED DOWN THIS KD OF HATE OVER AND OVER AGA, AND THE END WE ALWAYS W. AND THAT’S WHAT GOG TO HAPPEN HERE.”— ERIK BOTTCHER ON THE NEED FOR CREASED SECURY AT LGBTQ VENU OR SPAC WHERE LGBTQ PEOPLE GATHER, BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “THE PROBLEM IS THE EE AND OPEN SOCIETY WE LIVE ’S NOT POSSIBLE TO FULLY SECURE ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SPAC WHICH IS WHY GUN SAFETY LAWS ARE SO IMPORTANT, AND WHY INTIFYG THE PEOPLE AND HOLDG THEM ACUNTABLE IS SO IMPORTANT.”BOTTCHER SAID THE LGBTQ CC OF THE CY COUNCIL WOULD MEET TO DISCS WHAT TO DO NEXT, ADDG THAT THE CINTS WOULD NOT TER HIM OM SPEAKG OUT.“THIS HAS JT STRENGTHENED MY ROLVE TO NTUE PHG BACK AGAST THIS HATE,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FACED DOWN THIS KD OF HATE OVER AND OVER AGA, AND THE END WE ALWAYS W. AND THAT’S WHAT GOG TO HAPPEN HERE. THIS IS A REMR THAT EVEN THOUGH WE’VE MA CREDIBLE, ASTONISHG PROGRS THE LAST FEW S, WE N’T RT ON OUR LRELS OR HATE FOR A MOMENT. WE HAVE TO NTUE FIGHTG, AND NOT STOP.” TIM TEEMAN

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GAY NYC COUNCILMAN ERIK BOTTCHER OFFERED POLICE PROTECTN AFTER HOME TARGETED‘PRETTY SHOCKING’ERIK BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THE CINT AT HIS HOME SHOWED NEW YORK CY WAS NOT “IMMUNE” TO ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISM, AND “WE HAVE TO NTUE FIGHTG.”TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 20, 2022 3:10PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 20, 2022 1:55PM EST EXCLIVECHANCE YEH/GETTY IMAG FOR HOG WORKSGAY NEW YORK CY UNCIL MEMBER ERIK BOTTCHER HAS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MAYOR ERIC ADAMS AND THE NYPD HAVE OFFERED “ANY AND ALL SUPPORT AND PROTECTN” AFTER HIS APARTMENT BUILDG WAS BIEGED BY ANTI-DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR PROTTERS, AND THE SIWALK FACED WH HATEFUL, HOMOPHOBIC SLURS DIRECTED AGAST HIM, CLUDG “OK GROOMER,” “CHILD PREDATOR,” AND ERIK BOCCHER (SIC) IS A PEDO CHILD GROOMER!” TWO WOMEN WERE ARRTED AFTER A GROUP OF PROTTERS TURNED UP AT HIS APARTMENT BUILDG CHELSEA LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE CINT OCCURRED AFTER BOTTCHER’S NEARBY OFFICE WAS VANDALIZED BY PROTTERS WHO ENTERED THE BUILDG TWO HOURS EARLIER. POLICE SAY NO ARRTS WERE MA FOLLOWG THAT CINT.“THE MAYOR ME HERE TO MY HOME LAST NIGHT PERSONALLY,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST TUDAY. “HE AND THE NYPD ARE OFFERG ANY AND ALL SUPPORT AND PROTECTN THAT I NEED. I’VE CLED HAVG A R PARKED OUT ONT. BUT I KNOW THAT IS AN OPTN THAT IS OPEN TO ME IF I NEED . THE MAYOR TOLD ME HE AND HIS ENTIRE ADMISTRATN ARE STANDG WH ME. THE SUPPORT OM PEOPLE GENERALLY HAS BEEN OVERWHELMG AND ABSOLUTELY HEARTENG. IT DON’T SURPRISE ME BEE NEW YORKERS ARE VERY LOVG AND SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE, BUT ’S EVEN MORE THAN I WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.”IN A TWEET, ADAMS WROTE: “THIS IS OUTRAGEO. COMPLETELY OUTRAGEO. ERIK, YOU STAND UP FOR OUR CY EVERY SGLE DAY AND THE WARDLY BIGOTS HAVE NO PLACE HERE. THANK YOU TO THE NYPD FOR YOUR QUICK WORK AND SENDG THE MSAGE THAT THIS HATE WILL NOT GO UNCHALLENGED.” BOTTCHER, WHOSE DISTRICT ENPASS CHELSEA, HELL’S KCHEN, AND GREENWICH VILLAGE, ALSO POSTED VIO OF ONE OF HIS NEIGHBORS ALLEGEDLY BEG PHYSILLY ASSLTED BY THE ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISTS. HE SAID POLICE WERE VTIGATG THE CINT; THE NYPD HAS YET TO RPOND TO NFIRM THIS TO THE DAILY BEAST. POLICE NAMED THE TWO WOMEN ARRTED AT BOTTCHER’S RINCE AS ERI SANCHEZ, 44, OM THE BRONX, AND D’ANNA MAN, 27, OM QUEENS. BOTH WERE CHARGED WH CRIMAL TRPASS. THE DAILY BEAST UNRSTANDS THAT THE WOMEN ENTERED THE LOBBY, AND IALLY REFED TO LEAVE AFTER THE BUILDG’S SUPERTENNT ASKED THEM TO. THEY THEN DID SO BEFORE PS ARRIVED. THE NEW YORK POST REPORTED THAT THE GROUP THAT TARGETED BOTTCHER’S OFFICE IS LLED GUARDIANS OF DIVY.THE CINT IS THE LATT A WAVE OF ACTIVY AIMED AT DRAG EVENTS ACROSS THE UNTRY, ENFLAMED BY ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC BY POLICIANS AND RIGHT WG MEDIA. BOTH ADAMS AND THE NYPD HAVE YET TO RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S QUTNS ABOUT ANY PLANS TO CREASE SECURY OR SAFETY PROVISNS FOR DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND LGBTQ PEOPLE GENERALLY THE CY, AS WELL AS WHAT MONORG LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER AGENCI ARE NDUCTG AROUND THE ACTIVI OF ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISTS AS THEY MAKE THEIR PRENCE MORE VISIBLE.“I FEEL FE THIS MORNG,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT WAS PRETTY SHOCKG LAST NIGHT. I ALWAYS KNEW THE BACK OF MY HEAD THAT THEY WOULD E TO MY HOE, BUT WHEN I LOOKED DOWN AT MY PHONE AND I HAD ALL THE MISSED LLS OM MY NEIGHBORS MY BUILDG, I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT MEANT. I KNEW THEY WERE AT MY HOME.”THE CINTS FOLLOWED A DRAG READG EVENT OVER THE WEEKEND FOR NRODIVERSE CHILDREN AT A LIBRARY CHELSEA, AT WHICH BOTTCHER FILMED PROTTERS’ ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AND POSTED ONLE. BOTTCHER SAID HE BELIEV HE WAS THEN TARGETED AFTER FILMG THE PROTTERS, “AND SHOWG THE WORLD THEIR SIGNS AND WHAT THEY WERE SAYG. THEY DIDN’T LIKE THAT. I THK THEY’RE EPLY TROUBLED PEOPLE, AND THE SAME KDS OF DIVIDUALS WHO HAVE TRIED TO SHUT DOWN VACCE CLICS, AND WHO HAVE FACED BLACK LIV MATTER MURALS. THE ARE PEOPLE WHO HARBOR FAR RIGHT-WG VIEWS ACROSS THE BOARD AND WHO NSUME AND SUBSCRIBE TO NSPIRACY THEORI.”THE HATEFUL MSAG SUBSEQUENTLY SCRAWLED ON THE SIWALK “DIDN’T BOTHER ME AT ALL PERSONALLY,” BOTTCHER SAID. “WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST IS THAT MY FAY IS ALSO SEEG , AND I DON’T WANT THEM TO THK THAT I AM UNSAFE. THEY’RE NCERNED. THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE NCERNED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WHEN I STARED SPEAKG OUT AGAST THE PEOPLE. THEY WANT ME TO BE REFUL—LIKE ANY PARENTS WOULD BE.” HE HAD NOT RECEIVED ANY ATH THREATS OR OTHER THREATS, HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I PERSONALLY DON’T FEEL UNSAFE. I’VE BEEN TOLD BY PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE SMART TO BE FEEL UNSAFE, BUT I FEEL VERY PROTECTED AND SURROUND BY THE MUNY. THE NYPD WAS GREAT YTERDAY. MY NEIGHBORS NONTED THE PROTTERS, AND SHOUTED AT THEM AND FEND ME. I’M REALLY TOUCHED BY THEIR RPONSE, BUT NOT SURPRISED BEE WHAT THOSE PROTTERS BELIEVE AND DO IS NTRARY TO EVERYTHG WE BELIEVE .” “HERE NEW YORK CY WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HOLD EXTREME FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS, AND THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE CY AND SOME OF THEM LIVE MY DISTRICT, ONE OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE DISTRICTS THE UNTRY.”— ERIK BOTTCHER BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WISHED HE WAS SURPRISED THAT THE CINTS OCCURRED THE PROGRSIVE, LONG LGBTQ-OCCUPIED NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHELSEA, “BUT HERE NEW YORK CY WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HOLD EXTREME FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS, AND THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE CY AND SOME OF THEM LIVE MY DISTRICT, ONE OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE DISTRICTS THE UNTRY. SOME OF THEM ARE TLY UNHGED AND NSUME THE FAR-RIGHT NSPIRACY THEORI.”“NO PLACE IS IMMUNE TO WHAT IS HAPPENG,” HE NTUED. “IT AFFECTS ALL RNERS OF OUR UNTRY, AND QUE ANKLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. WE N’T PRETEND THAT WE ARE A BUBBLE HERE. Y, NEW YORK IS A BEAN OF ACCEPTANCE AND DIVERSY FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, BUT THERE ARE SIGNIFINT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS.“WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS VERY, VERY SERLY BEE THE EXTREME RHETORIC OM RIGHT-WG POLICIANS AND PEOPLE ON THE TER MANIFTS SELF REAL LIFE EVENTS. WE’VE SEEN HAPPEN OVER AND OVER AGA. WE SAW HAPPEN COLORADO A FEW WEEKS AGO [AT THE CLUB Q MASS SHOOTG COLORADO SPRGS]. THAT’S WHY WE NEED TO STAND UP TO , AND THAT’S WHY PEOPLE POSNS OF FLUENCE NEED TO STOP AMPLIFYG THIS CRAP.“MY PERSONAL THEORY IS THAT THE ARE PEOPLE WHO HARBOR FAR-RIGHT POLIL VIEWS AND ARE JT CHOOSG TO WEAPONIZE THE ISSU AS PART OF THE FAR-RIGHT NSPIRACY ECHO CHAMBER. I THK THEY ARE G DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AS A VSEL TO WHIP UP FAR-RIGHT ANGER AGAST THE LGBTQ MUNY, AND ’S ALSO JT THE LATT TOOL THAT THE FAR RIGHT IS G TO NJURE THE EVIL TROP ABOUT OUR MUNY.” “LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FACED DOWN THIS KD OF HATE OVER AND OVER AGA, AND THE END WE ALWAYS W. AND THAT’S WHAT GOG TO HAPPEN HERE.”— ERIK BOTTCHER ON THE NEED FOR CREASED SECURY AT LGBTQ VENU OR SPAC WHERE LGBTQ PEOPLE GATHER, BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “THE PROBLEM IS THE EE AND OPEN SOCIETY WE LIVE ’S NOT POSSIBLE TO FULLY SECURE ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SPAC WHICH IS WHY GUN SAFETY LAWS ARE SO IMPORTANT, AND WHY INTIFYG THE PEOPLE AND HOLDG THEM ACUNTABLE IS SO IMPORTANT.”BOTTCHER SAID THE LGBTQ CC OF THE CY COUNCIL WOULD MEET TO DISCS WHAT TO DO NEXT, ADDG THAT THE CINTS WOULD NOT TER HIM OM SPEAKG OUT.“THIS HAS JT STRENGTHENED MY ROLVE TO NTUE PHG BACK AGAST THIS HATE,” BOTTCHER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FACED DOWN THIS KD OF HATE OVER AND OVER AGA, AND THE END WE ALWAYS W. AND THAT’S WHAT GOG TO HAPPEN HERE. THIS IS A REMR THAT EVEN THOUGH WE’VE MA CREDIBLE, ASTONISHG PROGRS THE LAST FEW S, WE N’T RT ON OUR LRELS OR HATE FOR A MOMENT. WE HAVE TO NTUE FIGHTG, AND NOT STOP.” TIM TEEMAN

His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. New York Cy, the birthplace of the Gay Rights movement at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, offers one of the largt and most diverse gay scen the world. Gay New York n be a b overwhelmg, but that's also part of the thrill -- your optns for what (or who) to enjoy at any time are endls.

While gay hubs like Chelsea, Hell's Kchen, and the Village are certaly worth visg, vibrant queer scen have spread to the Upper Wt Si, Queens, Park Slope, and Brooklyn. NYC also boasts perhaps the most tense gay nightlife -- is, after all, the cy that never sleeps.

Plan your next trip to gay New York wh Out. A grievg mother’s fight to fd answers about the ath of her son has helped to shed light on a spected rash of dgggs and robberi affectg New York Cy’s gay nightlife Clary’s 33-year-old son, John Umberger, was found ad June after he was last seen walkg out of a midtown Manhattan bar wh two strangers.

They ma me feel like was my flt, like I did to myself, ” Alarn April, jt outsi the same gay bar that Alarn went to, 25-year-old Jul Ramirez was seen gettg to a b wh three unknown men. Dpe her ial ncerns, Clary add that she’s thankful for the New York Police homici tective who’s now workg the York Cy police cled ment to ABC News, cg that they’re alg wh an ongog have said ’s not jt gay men who are gettg targeted and that they know this is happeng both straight and gay nightclubs across the months of worry across New York, they say they’ve now arrted six men who are facg grand larceny, inty theft, asslt and other charg. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men.

They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr. Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars.

Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years.

Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.