Marchers hold prott Wednday outsi a Brooklyn boga where two men were attacked over the weekend an alleged anti-gay crime.
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- ANTI-GAY CRIM SPIKE NYC, THOANDS MARCH TO DENOUNCE VLENCE
- ALLEGEDLY GAY MAN ARRTED FOR WT VILLAGE GAY BASHG
- PROTTERS MARCH BROOKLYN AFTER TWO MEN ATTACKED ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ASSLT
ANTI-GAY CRIM SPIKE NYC, THOANDS MARCH TO DENOUNCE VLENCE
Thoands marched on the streets of Manhattan on Monday to prott the killg of a gay man who had allegedly been tnted wh homophobic slurs — the most... * gay bashing new york *
Thoands marched on the streets of Manhattan on Monday to prott the killg of a gay man who had allegedly been tnted wh homophobic slurs — the most recent a spate of bias attacks stirrg up anxiety, disbelief and outrage a famoly gay-iendly neighborhood.
" and "Homophobia's got to go! " were among the chants as a crowd marked the ath of 32-year-old Mark Carson Greenwich Village — not far om the se of the 1969 rts that helped give rise to the gay rights movement.
Christe Qun, the cy's first openly gay Cy Council speaker, marched along wh Edie Wdsor, whose pivotal se to w the same rights for gay upl as heterosexual upl is before the Supreme Court. In the wake of the adly shootg, officials said Monday that police would crease their prence there and nearby neighborhoods through the end of June, Gay Pri Month.
ALLEGEDLY GAY MAN ARRTED FOR WT VILLAGE GAY BASHG
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay bashing new york *
A group that bats anti-gay vlence planned to fan out to var areas on Friday nights through June to talk to people about safety. Cy officials, gay-rights advot and others joed the march Monday eveng to nounce a rise hate crime reports. Fab Cotza, a gay member of an terfah Bronx church, said the killg "really mak me sred...
PROTTERS MARCH BROOKLYN AFTER TWO MEN ATTACKED ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ASSLT
The cy and pecially the Village have long been beans for gay people. The gay rights movement crystallized the Village June 1969, when a police raid at the Stonewall Inn touched off a rt and monstratns that me to symbolize gays' ristance to beg relegated to society's shadows.