Tag: Brooklyn

The verdict for the final man attached to a Hasidic gang attack against a gay man has been overturned because of changing laws concerning forensics and lack of other evidence. On December 1, 2013, Taj Patterson, then 22, was walking home through the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn after leaving a party and separating from his friends. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Patterson was then attacked by a group of men. Patterson was bruised and bloodied by the end of the attack....

Two men were viciously attacked early Sunday morning as they left a gay bar in Brooklyn, New York. According to the local ABC affiliate, the two men - one 29-years-old, the other 34-years-old - had just left the Metropolitan Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when a man approaching them called out with a homophobic slur. The incident quickly escalated with the attacker punching the 34-year-old in the face, and throwing the 29-year-old against a tree. Both were knocked unconscious. The good news is...

The victim tried to calm a group that was spewing homophobic slurs at him and his friends. A gay man suffered a broken jaw at the hands of attackers in Brooklyn in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The victim, 27, was ordering food with friends at a fast-food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were approached by a group making anti-gay comments. When he tried to de-escalate the situation, one attacker punched him in the face. The assailant was...

Dom and Nick met when they were teenagers A gay couple living in Brooklyn, New York City, saw their love story go viral in June when it was featured on the Instagram profile, @TheWayWeMet. Nick met Dominic when they were 14 and 16 respectively. They went to the same High School, but then to different colleges. They met again after graduating and fell in love. ‘We reconnected one summer when I was in Orlando helping a friend move into her dorm and...

‘Falling in love with another black man was scary in ways neither of us could have ever imagined’ The Instagram account @TheWayWeMet shares beautiful stories from couples. Alongside each picture is a description of how they met. A posting that went up earlier today is already set to go viral after racking up 14,000 likes in ten hours. Nick met Dominic when they were 14 and 16 respectively. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVQxF34Bgcr/ Dom and Nick ‘Dominic and I met as teenagers,’ they say alongside the image, which...

A gay couple have said that they feel “shook up” after a homophobic attack on them by two teenagers in Brooklyn, New York. Tanner Gardella, 25, and Gino Boffa, 26, were walking arm-in-arm when two boys aged 13 and 15 called the pair “faggots” for wearing skinny jeans.  Boffa stopped and asked the teens to repeat themselves — and that was when the situation escalated. “It went from 0 to 60. They shoved us and started spitting at us calling us ‘faggot.’ That’s...