Manhattan Gay Bar: Man Arrted for Throwg Bricks at Hell’s Kchen Bar – NBC New York

Contents:

• NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY
• MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN 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
• NEW YORK MAN ARRTED VANDALISM AT GAY BAR
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED
• SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED
• TWO MORE SPECTS ARRTED OVER OSLO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• 'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR
• VANDAL RPONSIBLE FOR BRICK ATTACKS AGAST NYC GAY BAR INTIFIED, ARRTED: NYPD
• SPECT COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG PREVLY ARRTED FOR BOMB THREAT, BUT CHARG WERE DROPPED
• 2 MEN KILLED OUTSI GAY BAR BY SPECTED FAR-RIGHT GUNMAN

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

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. 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.

New York|Man Charged Wh Breakg Wdow Repeatedly at Manhattan Gay Bar ADVERTISEMENTThe attacks, four wh a month, had created a ep sense of anxiety Hell’s Kchen — a feelg pound on Saturday by a adly asslt on a gay bar owner of VERS offered startled patrons ee shots of liquor after the most recent attack. Moon for The New York TimThe New York Cy Police Department said a man was arrted and charged Tuday nnectn wh a strg of attacks on a gay bar Manhattan that saw s ont wdow smashed by bricks and a rock four tim ls than one Kuilan, 34, of Hell’s Kchen, the Manhattan neighborhood where the attacks occurred, was charged wh crimal posssn of a weapon, crimal mischief and reckls endangerment, acrdg to the Police Department. Muny — a feelg pound by a adly shootg at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs on Saturday that killed at least five and jured 18.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Man Charged Over Attacks On a Gay Bar In Manhattan.

MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN GAY BAR

Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBTQ+ rights movement the U. Fifty years after the Black Cat protts Los Angel, which directly led to the lnch of The Advote, we take a look at some of the most nsequential strik on gay bars and bathho datg back more than a century.

The rmatn gathered actually led to a wir vtigatn of homosexualy nearby ci, which rulted 20 arrts, cludg two ps on the Baker Street beat, acrdg to Allan Bebe’s A History of Bathho.

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

Moral reformers New York Cy raised polil prsure on police the 1920s to shut down the Lafayette Brothers’ Turkish Baths, a popular spot for gay men livg and visg the cy. A German gay magaze 1929 published an acunt of a 26-year-old European visor that said eight tectiv went unrver the bathhoe, then round all patrons the ont room and beat the guts.

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

Loted between Los Angel gay bars Harold’s and the Waldorf, Cooper’s Donuts at night beme a hub of social activy for drag queens, gays, trans people, and htlers the 1950s. While one of the first known phbacks agast police raids, likely would have been fotten if not for the fact gay lerature pneer John Rechy happened to be there as the time.

San Francis police 1966 announced a crackdown on gay bathho and March of that year raid the 21st Street Baths. A New Year’s police raid on the Black Cat, a gay bay the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angel, rulted the beatgs of more than a dozen people; two men were arrted for the crime of kissg and a bartenr suffered a ptured spleen. It also led Richard Mch and Bill M to lnch lol gay rights newsletter PRIDE (Personal Rights Defense and Edutn), which would later bee The Advote.

NEW YORK MAN ARRTED VANDALISM AT GAY BAR

The Dover Hotel Los Angel operated practilly as a gay bathhoe, and as such drew the attentn of police, who nducted equent raids. The raid would prompt a monstratn by the Gay Liberatn Front and other anizatns that moved through the day om Sheridan Square to St. California lawmakers 1976 passed a nsentg adults law part to stop persecutn of gays through bathhoe raids, but that didn’t stop San Francis ps om raidg Liberty Baths an apparent tt of that law, acrdg to A History of Bathho.

The owner of the Streatham tablishment would end up fed 5, 000 pounds and sentenced to six months jail, somethg Gay News at the time would label a “dranian sentence. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office nducted jot raids of Florida gay bars Club 21 and Copa on May 3, 1991, and the cints would play a role Sheriff Nick Navarro eventually losg reelectn, ironilly after nductg such raids an apparent publicy stunt.

Byron Jon, who led a group om the Gay and Lbian Youth Group Club 21 the eveng of the raid, wrote later The Advote that hundreds were taed by police though only six were arrted. Three years after Cha crimalized homosexualy, police Guangzhou July 2000 raid the Junjie men’s health and bety center and arrted 37 men on charg of prostutn. Police Calgary, Canada, drew cricism after a 2002 raid of Goliath’s Sna & Texas Lounge, the only gay bathhoe town.

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

Montreal police raid gay strip bar Taboo on May 10, 2003, then publicly suggted they were specifilly raidg the tablishment bee of the potential for olr men preyg on young dancers.

Unr the guise of dog public health spectns, thori Haton, Canada, on Augt 4, 2004, arrted two patrons for cency and sparked outrage the Canadian gay muny. Police later admted learng gay activi happened at the tablishment thanks to spottg ments on a gay cisg webse, spe ially suggtg they had no ia the bs was a bathhoe. Durg what AIDS activist Wan Yahai suggted was a crackdown on gays Beijg, the Dtatn got closed March 9, 2008, by police supposedly for playg mic too loud and hostg too large a crowd, acrdg to an article the Shangaiist.

Later that month, 10 police rs rolled to Oasis, the most popular gay bathhoe Beijg, and ps round up more than 70 people, cludg staff and patrons, durg a March 20 raid. A June 28, 2009, raid on the Rabow Lounge, a gay bar Fort Worth, Texas, rulted one bar patron beg serly hurt.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

When the Atlanta Police’s “Red Dog” un raid gay bar the Eagle September 2009, patrons reported beg forced onto the ground while officers ed homophobic slurs and nducted background checks on everybody there.

Gay Pri Barcelona closed vlent fashn 2013 when police on June 29 broke down the door to La Bata Boate around 3 a. Bar owner Miquel told the paper police only asked him for intifitn, and blamed the high-drama affair on homophobia. Police arrted 40 people standg outsi popular Mosw gay bar Central Statn December 2013, shortly after a number of disput between the bar owner and buildg landlords, acrdg to The Mosw Tim.

FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED

After a July 6, 2014, raid which around 65 gay people were round up and taken to the police statn, Nairobi news outlet Ghafla reported that the arrts were ma simply bee the patrons were homosexual. Police apparently regularly me to mand the IDs of guts, then end up arrtg Mlims to charge them not wh any homosexualy-related crime but wh the illegal nsumptn of alhol, a vlatn of Sharia law largely unenforced straight nightclubs. 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. 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.

SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED

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. 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. 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. 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. It is unclear, however, if they were found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton.

TWO MORE SPECTS ARRTED OVER OSLO GAY BAR SHOOTG

A New York Cy man has been arrted a seri of cints which bricks and a rock were thrown at a wdow of a gay bar, police said cints, which began on Nov. 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.

'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR

“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 . 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.

VANDAL RPONSIBLE FOR BRICK ATTACKS AGAST NYC GAY BAR INTIFIED, ARRTED: NYPD

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.

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. The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.

Constant Raids at Gay BarsThe 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.

SPECT COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG PREVLY ARRTED FOR BOMB THREAT, BUT CHARG WERE DROPPED

However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. Gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights (SHR), was found 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German immigrant.

2 MEN KILLED OUTSI GAY BAR BY SPECTED FAR-RIGHT GUNMAN

Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and rtrant), cheaply renovated , and reopened the next year as a gay bar.

It was a nightly home for many naways and homels gay youths, who panhandled or shoplifted to afford the entry fee. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.