Just hours after thousands of metro New York City citizens marched to mourn the death of Mark Carson and to protest NYC’s wave of anti-gay hate crimes, there were two more violent anti-gay hate crime attacks. These attacks are bring this month’s list anti-gay hate crimes to seven.
Dan Contarino, a Philadelphia party promotor was gay-bashed in Manhattan’s East Village, sometime around 10:30 PM, per this tweet. As the photo he posted to Facebook, above, shows, he was punched and kicked and called “faggot.”
THANKS FOR CALLS…. GAY BASHED LAST NITE…. back from small surgery…. CHEST XRAYS THIS AM…. suspect still at large… police n media waiting to interview me… U JUST WANNA CRY N MOVE ON…
Contarino also tweeted:
Thanks for calls…. face fuked.. waitin on surgery. Got gang jumped…. newsvans outside…. last. Post for a bit
— Dan Contarino (@dancontarino) May 21, 2013
On Facebook, Contarino also wrote:
UGH…. THIS IS JUST AS BRUTAL AS the ATTACK…. 3 hours… 8 detective interviews… now waiting for Hate Crimes Unit main interview… THEN BACK TO HOSPITAL….
“Shock, outrage, anger sums up how I am feeling today as one of my very good friends was gay bashed last night in New York City,” NightlifeGay reports:
Dan Contarino, former promoter of Shampoo Nightclub’s “Shaft” Fridays, was jumped last night at Avenue D & 4th Street. Allegedly, witnesses are reporting the assailant was yelling “f*ggot” as he was kicking and beating Dan. Neighbors rushed to Dan’s aid and chased after the attacker but unfortunately he got away. The police are investigating the assault now and have not determine it a hate crime.
I talked with Dan last night and this morning and he is very shaken and as you can see by the photo banged up pretty good.
Then around 5:00 AM today, a same-sex couple was also gay bashed.
“Police are also investigating a beating in the East Village as another possible bias attack, sources said,” NBC New York reports:
In the SoHo assault, law enforcement sources said the two men, 41 and 42, were walking on Broadway between Prince and Houston streets at about 5 a.m. when two men started yelling anti-gay remarks in English and Spanish. The victims are Hispanic.
The men were both punched, and one suffered an eye injury, sources said.
Police said two men, 32 and 33, were arrested and face a charge of assault as a hate crime.
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Hat tip: Gawker and Towleroad
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