Hate Crimes

Mark Carson Was One of 5 Anti-Gay Attacks in Manhattan This Month Alone

On Friday night, Mark Carson was walking with a male friend in the West Village when three men started following them. "Look at these faggots," one said, before taking out a revolver and shooting Carson in the face, according to charges filed Sunday. The 32-year-old was pronounced dead shortly there ... More >>

MLB Free Agent Delmon Young Sentenced to Some Hard Time at the Museum of Tolerance for Using Anti-Semitic Slur

Looks like Major League Baseball player Delmon Young is about to get his mouth washed out with some tolerance. Young pleaded guilty yesterday to an aggravated harassment charge stemming from an April incident in Manhattan where he shouted an anti-Semitic slur at a group of four men and then tackle ... More >>

Brooklyn Punk Accused Of Tasering Gay Man Charged With Hate Crime

Zapping a gay guy with a Taser will likely land you in the clink. Screaming hateful slurs while doing it will likely land you in the clink for a long, long time.Case in point: 23-year-old Joseph Desmond, who currently is charged with a hate crime for doing exactly that.According to the Queens Distri ... More >>

Alleged Homophobic Fatso Keith Patron Charged With Hate Crime In West Village Slashing

An arrest has been made in an assault on a McDonald's patron who was slashed with a razor blade by a plus-sized perp last week -- and because the suspect allegedly threw some gay slurs around during the attack, he's being charged with a hate crime,which makes the charges considerably more serious.Th ... More >>

Gay-Bashing Massachusetts Macho Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime After Attack On Gay Queens Man Backfires

Cristian Flores must have thought he was pretty tough when he and a few of his buddies decided to hassle a gay couple in Queens last year. However, Flores wasn't such a tough guy when one of the gay men tackled him to the ground and held him until police showed up -- and that was only after Flores a ... More >>

Mazo Schwartz, Daughter of Brooklyn Hate Crime Suspect Simchon Schwartz, Speaks Out

​ Over the weekend, 46 year-old Simchon Schwartz was arrested for hate crimes against his Turkish neighbors who he is accused of assaulting while yelling, "Fucking arabs! Fucking terrorists!" Yesterday, Schwartz's daughter, Mazo, insisted that her father did not instigate the fight and that he ... More >>

Young Girl Becomes Second Busted in Head Scarf Hate Crime

Daramy being arrested (Steve White/NY Post)​Krystal Callender, a 13-year-old Staten Island girl, became the second kid busted by the Hate Crimes Task Force for attempted robbery, felony assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment for bullying a Muslim classmate for two months, the New Yo ... More >>

West Village Gay Basher is Gay, Wants Immunity

Furtch​Originally thought to be a hate crime, the late-night beating of Damian Furtch, 26, at a West Village McDonald's, has taken a Law & Order-style twist, with the attacker, Anthony Bray, now saying he's gay too. The punches, which were captured on tape, were because Furtch "disrespected" h ... More >>

Al Iman Mosque and the Mystery of the Urinated-on Prayer Rug: A Follow-Up

​Back in August, we addressed the story of a man named Omar Rivera who had allegedly, by initial accounts, urinated in the Al-Iman mosque in Astoria, Queens, in a possible hate crime. Later, some local news channels and the police altered the story to say the man had urinated outside the mosqu ... More >>

Park 51-Associated Initiative Releases Statement on Accused Muslim Cabbie Stabber

​Earlier, we pointed out that the guy who stabbed a cab driver after asking him if he was a Muslim last night, Michael Enright, might look like a guy who works for Intersections International, an interfaith initiative who recently announced their support of Park 51 (also known to many as the " ... More >>

Assaulter of Three Gay Men Only Gets 45 Days in Jail!

​You heard me. Driton Nicaj attacked Joe Holladay on the Upper East Side last year and used the word "faggot," though a judge somehow pooh-poohed the hate crime angle.

Gay-Basher Serves 21 Days in Prison for Brutal Attacks on Three Men

​Right now pretty much everyone and their mother knows that Lindsay Lohan just got 90 days in jail for probation violation. In a far less publicized sentencing, Driton Nicaj, a 20-year-old man who assaulted three gay men on the Upper East Side in 2009 (including one attack that was originally ... More >>

Kal Penn Gives Joel Stein a Beating; Indian People Becoming the Butt of Internet's Jokes

​In the latest issue of Time magazine, comedic writer Joel Stein does a profoundly unfunny bit about how families from India have descended upon the New Jersey town where he grew up. "The A&P I shoplifted from is now an Indian grocery. The multiplex where we snuck into R-rated movies now shows ... More >>

Obama's Encounter With a Pop Diva

​President Obama loves to reference Lady Gaga to show how hip he is. I'm hearing that the other day, after he made a speech about the importance of the hate crimes legislation he signed, the Prez was greeted by '80s singer and LGBT supporter Cyndi Lauper, who told him, "It's about time!"

THE LARAMIE LEGACY

What we can learn from Matthew Shepard

Suspect Arrested in Staten Island Baseball Bat and Bias Attack

Police have made an arrest in that Staten Island bias attack we told you about yesterday. The Staten Island Advance says cops have responded to tips and picked up Joseph Sweeney, 23, on charges of second-degree assault as a hate crime, second-degree assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. Luis ... More >>

Have You Seen... Hate Crime Perp, Staten Island

The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is looking for three men wanted for a bias attack on the south shore of Staten Island. In the early morning hours of June 17, a white guy (pictured above, on surveillance video) got in a dispute with a Hispanic guy in a store at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Victor ... More >>

Another Bash on the Upper East Side

Not far from where Joe Holladay got gay-bashed, another Manhattanite got jumped and beaten up the following morning. Michael Doane, 40, was walking his dog on East 84th Street around 3:20 on Sunday morning when a couple of guys jumped him, fractured his skull and broke his nose. Meanwhile, Holladay ... More >>

Gay-Bashed on Pride Weekend on the Upper East Side (Updated)

Our colleague Michael Feingold told us some very bad news today: a former Voice sales rep, Joe Holladay, in town on business, was jumped and beaten Saturday morning by a group of men who called him a faggot. Holladay tells us that he walked out of John Jerome's apartment on East 85th Street betwe ... More >>

Man Beaten in Village, Critically Injured (Updated)

Our intrepid legman and Voice food critic Robert Sietsema writes to tell us, "There's a smear of bright red blood on the pavement, a few blood-soaked rags, some police tape connected to trash cans, and a Channel 7 Eyewitness News truck at the corner of West 10th and 7th Avenue South." From this morn ... More >>

ACE IN THE HOLE

Dan Savage inspires strap-ons onstage

2nd Man Pleads Guilty In S.I. Election Night Hate Spree

The second of the four guys who were accused of an Election Night hate-crime spree in Staten Island has pleaded guilty. The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Brian Carranza, 21, admitted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to conspiring to assault African-Americans in retaliation for Oba ... More >>

October Surprise! B-face is B-shit

Six Students Go On Hunger Strike at Columbia

Cops Investigate Second Columbia Bias Incident

L.I. Cops Make Bust in Gay-Bias Attack

The Queer Agenda 2007

An incremental approach to making gay life a little bit more fabulous

Shocking, But Not Surprising

The Kevin Aviance assault proves gay bashing is alive and well in New York City

'Hate Crime'

Some of His Best Friends Are Green

Making Enemies

Post–9-11 Crackdowns Spurring Prejudice

The Matthew Shepard Icon

Sometimes the Image of a Martyr Fits the Victim of a Crime

The Usual Suspects

Defending Arabs and Muslims in the Age of the New War

Senator Straddle

East Side Liberals Tire of Roy Goodman’s Albany Alibis

Anatomy of a Murder

Did Hate Kill?

Advocates Say Slurs Show Bias in Transgender Murder

Twice Soaked

For Women of Central Park, Official Outcry Obscures Unmentionables

On the Town

The Tectonic Theater Project Captures Matthew Shepard’s Laramie

Fight Club

A Gay March on Washington Spawns a Major Movement Rift

Letters