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Police: Gays are under attack in Covington, Ky.

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Photo credit: Kenton County, WKRC-TVDevlin Burke is accused in an assault on a group of gay and lesbian people in Covington, Ky.

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Covington police are stepping up patrols after a series of attacks in Mainstrasse. Police believe the targets are people in the gay community.

The most recent attack on two women was Sunday morning - at the corner of Main and Pike. Two men who tried to intervene were also hurt. Local 12 reporter Larry Davis says police are stopping just short of calling this a hate crime.

Police say under Kentucky law, they cannot label this or any similar attacks as a hate crime -- that would have to be determined by a judge. But what happened Sunday morning is the latest in a series of attacks where gays are being targeted.

“I got 28 stitches and a 14-inch laceration in my stomach -- just because I wanted to be a peace keeper.”

James Patton and friends were driving near the intersection of Main and Pike Sunday morning when they heard screams coming from a fight. “As soon as I got out of my vehicle I tried to calm the situation down and hollered ‘stop, its not going to be like this.’”

Police charged Devlin Burke with two counts of assault. A teenage boy was sliced on the wrist and Justin Sizemore had his pants sliced as he was being chased. “All we were trying to do was stop the trouble.”

Police say this all started when a group of people -- believed to be leaving the Yadda Club -- a gay-lesbian bar -- were walking near a gas station.

Police say Timothy Searp started yelling gay slurs at the group. There was a confrontation -- police say a woman was attacked by Searp -- knocked down , had her head put against a brick wall and was kicked several times. Police say Searp continued to yell gay slurs. Another woman was also punched in the back.

Police say there have been other attacks against gays in the Mainstrasse district in recent months. “I’m very shocked and disappointed. … I felt that Covington was getting better.”

Carl Fox sold his bar in Covington – which is across the Ohio River from Cincinnati -- several years ago because of such harassment. He now owns The Crazy Fox in Newport, Ky. Fox had hoped the climate had improved for homosexuals.

This also concerns James Patton. “I don't like that kind of stuff. I wasn’t raised that way.”

Patton says an exacto knife was used in the attack and had it gone any deeper -- he would have been seriously injured. The two women were transported to the hospital but their injuries weren't serious.

Covington police are beefing up patrols in the Mainstrasse district to help combat any future attacks.

To read more at WKRC in Cincinnati, click HERE.

Did D.C. Police Just Nab Gay Federal Worker Delando King's Killer? / Queerty

via www.queerty.com

D.C. police arrested Marcus Mclean for the Aug. 8 stabbing death of Delando King, 34, a gay federal worker who was seen on security cameras entering his apartment building with an unidentified man early Sunday morning. The man was seen leaving the building alone, carrying a filled bag; items were reported missing from the apartment. King, who worked for the U.S. Indian Health Service, a unit of the Department of Health & Human Services, was found dead in his third floor apartment.

Six injured in Oxford St bashing spree

 
via SameSame  
 By Matt Akersten, 12th August, 2010

A horror night on Sydney’s Oxford Street left six people bashed – two of them in hospital with serious injuries.

Police arrested a man in his 30s who swung karate kicks at several people walking down the ‘gay golden mile’ on Monday night.

Gay equality campaigner Simon Margan (pictured in hospital) was left with a shattered eye socket – he was victim number three of one man’s six-assault anti-gay rage, he believes.

Wearing chunky military-style boots, the man, believed to be aged in his 30’s, began his rampage from Taylor Square and continued to outside Gloria Jean’s two blocks away, around 9pm on Monday, Margan tells Same Same.

“I’d seen him before, tearing down gay event posters and mumbling about ‘eradicating gays’. He tried to kick me and at first he missed – I stood back, but he took aim, hitting me in the eye. I’d thought he’d had a knife.

“I screamed for help, as my face started bleeding. The attacker had been so calm. He didn’t say anything. I think his attacks were premeditated – he was doing it because he hated gays.” His assailant did not seem drunk, Margan adds.

Pain and shock

Margan arrived at St. Vincent’s Hospital at 11pm, where he was told his eye socket had been shattered. Still in pain, he tells Same Same this morning from his bed at home that his life has been “savagely torn apart”.

“I have to go to the plastic surgeon on Monday, once his swelling subsides. They say they’ll put in titanium mesh to stabilize my eye – I’ll have to have it in forever.

He plans to testify in court against his assailant, and encourages others to come forward to make a compliant to the police. “Sometimes people don’t follow these things up – but I feel like I have to, to avoid this happening to anyone else.”

Margan says he’d been attacked for being gay before, but never on Oxford Street. “I have heard of it happening to others but not to me.”

Surry Hills Police confirm that six people were injured on Monday night on Oxford Street. A male suspect was apprehended at the scene and is now facing nine charges. He has been refused bail. CCTV footage from along Oxford Street can be used in evidence in a criminal trial.

WOW! NOM Crazy People out in Indy Monday.

"Oh your with the good guys.....We don't want anything inflammatory...." WOW  these people have lost their fucking minds!  Of course they don't want the "gays or the gay supporters" to talk to their "protesters" because we would quickly figure out that the 15 or 20 people they have are a bunch of folks who have been brainwashed to think that gay marriage will bring forth the end of time and god will destroy us all! And of course we would expose the hate of these narrow minded people.

All i can say about this video is wow...poor lost souls!

"I wouldn't talk to those two, they are out for no good"

"God wouldn't make someone something if they couldn't go to heaven"

"I was confused until I was about 40 years old, until someone told me to read the bible"

"Had attractions but rejected them because they are from the devil"

For more outstanding coverage of the NOM madness, please make sure you check out Joe's Blog at Joe My God who is doing an outstanding job following NOM as is the following:

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Police investigating assault on gay couple

 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an assault on a gay couple, who say they were punched and tarred with a homophobic slur at a Stapleton fast-food restaurant.

Luis Vieira, 47, said he and his partner, Richard Vieira, 39, were attacked as they ate in the White Castle at 450 Bay St. about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The two live nearby, and had stopped at the eatery on their way home from Manhattan.

Before going in, they had noticed what Luis Vieira described as a group of about 40 black youths, male and female, walking in the middle of Bay Street.

As they sat down to eat, three members of the group came in, Vieira said. As he looked at them, one approached the table and said, “What the [expletive] are you looking at, fag?”

He responded, “What the [expletive] are you looking at?” and after the two stared at each other for few seconds, the youth walked off.

A few moments later, Vieira said, he felt a “bop in the back of the head.” He and his partner ran out, but retreated when they saw the youths swarming the parking lot.

Vieira was asking a restaurant employee to call 911 when he realized Richard Vieira was no longer at his side.

He found his partner outside, semiconscious and bleeding — he had been jumped and sucker-punched in the back of the head.

“I blotted him, brought him back to the White Castle,” Luis Vieira said. “I had blood all over me. My partner had blood all over him.”

A responding ambulance took Richard Vieira to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, where he required stitches to close his wounds. He was later released.

A police unit also responded, and after Luis Vieira made calls to several law enforcement agencies, a detective with the Hate Crimes Task Force reached out yesterday to the couple.

An NYPD spokesman confirmed last night that the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

Luis Vieira said there’s no question in his mind that he and his partner were targeted because they are gay. He was wearing a band on his arm with colors that declared his orientation, while his partner was carrying a “man purse,” he said, and the youth that approached him didn’t bother any of the other White Castle customers.

“There were other individuals in the restaurant. He looked at them, and then came up to us,” he said.

And regarding the slur that punctuated the youth’s “What the ... are you looking at” remark, he said, “How do you interpret that?”

Luis Vieira also said he was disturbed that a large group of youths could walk around the neighborhood and wreak havoc, unchecked by authorities: “How many people is it going to take to get assaulted or possibly killed before something is done?”