Are Gay Men Beg Targeted for Dggg and Robberi Hell’s Kchen? – NBC New York

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• A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.
• 'JTICE FOR JUL': VIGIL HELD FOR 25-YEAR-OLD WHO DIED AFTER LEAVG NYC GAY BAR
• FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• 2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS
• NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY
• GAY NEW YORK CY
• DGGED, ROBBED, KILLED AFTER PARTYG HELL'S KCHEN — ARE GAY MEN BEG TARGETED?
• POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
• NEW YORK CY GAY BARS

A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.

Their last stop was the Rz Bar and Lounge, a popular, multilevel gay venue the heart of the neighborhood’s Rtrant Row. Like many gay men New York Cy, he was a equent visor to Hell’s Kchen, which, along wh s southern neighbor, Chelsea, reportedly has the hight ncentratn of LGBTQ bars and rourc the cy — and perhaps the world.

And vised three venu all wh a half-e of each other: Rise Bar, a gay cktail lounge; Mickey Spillane’s, a bar and rtrant; and, fally, Rz Bar and Lounge. ”“We urge you to raise awarens on the ath of Jul Car Ramirez, to give a voice to gay Lato men who are victims of the crime this cy and to seek jtice for the loved on he left behd, ” she wrote.

Friends and muny members gathered Wednday eveng for a ndlelight vigil and moment of silence memory of Jul Ramirez, 25, who died April shortly after leavg a popular New York Cy gay bar. Their last stop was the Rz Bar and Lounge, a multilevel gay venue the heart of the neighborhood’s Rtrant beg separated om his iend, surveillance footage om a nearby secury mera showed Ramirez walkg away om the Rz wh three unintified men at 3:17 a.

'JTICE FOR JUL': VIGIL HELD FOR 25-YEAR-OLD WHO DIED AFTER LEAVG NYC GAY BAR

Juli Constante Motal / NBC NewsSome at Wednday’s vigil said they fear Ramirez was targeted and victimized bee he was gay. A third and fal spect was arrted nnectn wh the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, two senr law enforcement officials said Monday.

Umberger and Ramirez were found ad after they vised gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last year. ” Multiple dgs were found their systems, cludg fentanyl, lidoe and obtaed secury vio showg Haton and Dema enterg and leavg Umberger’s temporary rince Manhattan’s Upper East Si, two senr law enforcement officials have Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThrough a search warrant, police also revered two vios om Dema’s phone that showed Dema and Barroso at the se of Umberger’s ath, the two officials said.

FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

The men would e the physil rds and rmatn stored on the victims’ phon to transfer money to themselv and make purchas, the dictment News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to last month. New York Cy police prevly nfirmed that multiple groups of crimals are mtg such crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars. It is unclear, however, whether they were found ad after havg vised gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton.

MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

A send spect was arrted and charged wh murr nnectn wh a strg of dg-facilated robberi of men who vised gay bars New York Cy that clud two aths, two senr law enforcement officials told NBC News on Monday.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

Umberger and Jul Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, were both found ad after visg gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

” Multiple dgs were found their systems, cludg fentanyl, lidoe and Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThe two law enforcement officials said that police obtaed secury vio showg Dema and Jayqwan Haton — one of three spects police have named nnectn to the homicis of Umberger and Ramirez — enterg and leavg Umberger's temporary rince Manhattan's Upper East Si. NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October 2022. The New York Cy Police Department prevly nfirmed to NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars.

2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS

It is unclear, however, if they were found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt was the fifth arrt nnected to a seri of dgggs and robberi that killed two men last Q bar Hell’s Kchen was one of the bars where victims were targeted the Moon for The New York TimA man whom the Police Department scribed as a lear of a gang that perpetrated a seri of robberi and killgs at Manhattan gay bars has been arrted, law enforcement officials said on man, Jayqwan Haton, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrted on Monday and charged wh murr, grand larceny and other crim nnectn wh the killgs of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger, two men who were dgged at bars Manhattan, robbed g facial regnn technology on their phon and later found ad of enforcement said the motive for the killgs was fancial, but the murrs neverthels terrorized the cy’s L. Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker om Queens, was dgged at the Rz, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, and left wh a group of men who abandoned his body the back of a taxi on the Lower East Si roughly one hour later, his fay month later, Mr.

Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was dgged at the Q, a gay bar near the Rz, and was found ad five days later, his fay fai of both men disvered that money had been taken om their acunts after they died. The documents said the assailants appeared to be motivated by money and not bias, and that attacks took place at tablishments that tered to both gay and straight patrons. Umberger led other New Yorkers to e forward wh stori of beg dgged and robbed at gay bars the cy.

NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY

Several gay men who told The Tim they had been dgged said the police did not take their claims asked on Tuday if the police rponse had been fluenced by bias, Commissner Keechant L. C., were found ad separate cints after leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen 2022, both had thoands of dollars stolen om their acuntsThey died of a toxic dg batn, their topsi found; July, an acclaimed fashn signer was found ad her Manhattan apartment of another toxic nartic bo -- those three aths may be lked to two separate ongog overdose robbery patterns, law enforcement officials saySix spects have been dicted the first pattern; law enforcement officials say that crew is thought to be behd 17 robberi and the aths of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger; the send is thought to be rponsible for 26, cludg the ath of Kathryn Gallagher.

GAY NEW YORK CY

The send of three murr spects publicly intified by the NYPD last weekend has turned himself to police nnectn to the overdose aths of two men targeted at Manhattan gay bars last year.

DGGED, ROBBED, KILLED AFTER PARTYG HELL'S KCHEN — ARE GAY MEN BEG TARGETED?

C., both of whom were robbed and killed after leavg Hell's Kchen gay bars, were termed by the medil examer to be homicis. A young gay mental health unselor was found ad April the early morng hours and his bank acunts pleted days later. Now, fay and iends are askg how this uld have Ramirez, 25, met a iend Hell's Kchen on April 20, acrdg to NBC eventually ma their way to the gay tablishment the Rz Bar and Lounge.

The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg another dg-duced robbery nnectn wh a crimal scheme — largely targetg men visg gay bars — that has left at least two men ad, police sourc say.

POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS

On March 25, Michael said, he was dgged and robbed of roughly $5, 000 after visg The Eagle NYC, a gay bar Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where at least three siar cints had been prevly reported. ”Authori have prevly stated that, although most of the victims the scheme are gay men, they were targeted for fancial ga and not bee of their sexual orientatn. Secury footage, taken the early hours of April 21, shows Jul walkg away om the Rz Bar and Lounge, a gay dance club, wh three unknown men, his olr brother Carlos Ramirez told NBC News.

A May 9 Instagram post read: "We urge you to raise awarens on the ath of Jul Car Ramirez, to give a voice to gay Lato men who are victims of the crime this cy and to seek jtice for the loved on he left behd.

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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The days, most of the gay bars and clubs are centered around Hell's Kchen but you'll also fd gay scen Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Brooklyn.

Qutns are swirlg followg the myster aths of two gay men who, on separate ocsns, were dgged, robbed and found ad after gog out for a night of fun the same Manhattan neighborhood.

"They seem to target young gay men, but I thk young people across the board are vulnerable untls ci, untls plac, " Clary told News 4.

THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT

Police named three spects late Friday nnectn to the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year. Umberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

However, they add that the New York Cy Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is assistg the the months after Umberger’s and Ramirez’s aths, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward wh eerily siar acunts to Ramirez’s and Umberger’s. NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October NYPD prevly nfirmed wh NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars.

It is unclear, however, if they were found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected to the dicted spects. While bathho, drag balls, and good ol’ “Screech Beach” (also known as the beach at Jab Riis Park) were all important s for queer gathergs, the cy’s queer muny pecially thrived s gay bars. Bars allowed queer people to socialize whout a polil agenda and offered a space for them to celebrate their sexualy wh relative eedom—“relative” beg the key word, as homosexual solicatn was still illegal and police raids were mon.

NEW YORK CY GAY BARS

In New York’s gay bars, however, pri is a yearlong event—and for your nvenience, we’ve assembled a list of the bt LGBTQ bars the cy has to offer, om chic clubs to kky div to s-old queer strongholds. Consistently ranked as one of NYC’s bt gay bars by New York Magaze and The Village Voice, Indtry is known for s sizeable high-ceilged dance floor and dtrial athetic.

Another historic favore, Greenwich Village’s Juli’ holds the distctn of beg the olst ntually operatg gay bar New York Cy.

In 1966, a full three years before the Stonewall Rts, Juli’ was also the se of the Mattache Society’s “sip-, ” a prott agast the then-mon practice of bars refg to serve alhol to gay people, that ultimately succeed forcg the State Liquor Authory to relax s discrimatory polici. As one of only 21 lbian bars left the untry and one of three New York Cy (the other two beg Cubbyhole jt a few blocks north and Gger’s Bar Park Slope) Henrietta Hudson is fiercely mted to creatg a space that embrac members of the LGBTQ muny who are often left alienated queer spac domated by cis gay men. In recent years, some gay bars have begun dilutg the kks and raw sexualy that prevly fed the spac an effort to make them a ltle more accsible to heterosexual bar hoppers.