A gay man was gunned down in Greenwich Village early today by an armed bigot who hurled homophobic slurs at him — and claimed to be the Newtown, Conn. killer before the murder, police said today.
The 32-year-old Brooklyn victim, whose name has not been released, was walking with a pal on Sixth Avenue near West Eighth Street about midnight when they were approached by three Hispanic males, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
One man snarled homophobic slurs at the men and asked them if they were “gay wrestlers,” Kelly said.
The men continued moving and made a right onto West Eighth Street.
One of the Hispanic men left and the other two continued to follow the victim and another man.
Both the victim and another man with him were wearing tank tops, cutoff shorts and boots.
“Do you want to die here?” the shooter asked the victim.
He pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot him once in the cheek.
“It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground,” said a bouncer at a nearby club. “Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street.”
The man died shortly after at Beth Israel Hospital.
I am incredibly saddened by this story. This is the fourth hate crime committed against a gay man this month, the second just steps from Stonewall. There will be a candlelight vigil tonight in front of the Gray’s Papaya on 6th Ave and 8th St where the shooting took place. Please come if you can; reblog this even if you can’t make it. We should refuse to live in a place where we can’t walk down the street without being afraid of this happening to us. It’s disgusting and unbelievable.
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So the second day of MEMUNC..
Was freaked out about the potential crisis at random time when we were at sleep…and nothing happened in the end.
Then a long long day on keep debating the Biological & Chemical Weapons in Syria…3 freaking 2.5 hrs sessions.
2 crisis put by top secret group randomly..was going to start the Kurdish question but completely got disturbed
So after going through taking down all the mass distraction weapons in Syria, which made it declared war on sponsor countries (btw Australia didn’t sign it - we are focusing on the humanitarian aid only); And a long session for those sponsors countries to figure their shit out…then Syria president sent a note to us saying he is willing to give up his presidency if we agree with his 4 pre-conditions. Australia normally would stand with U.K., but consider the guy representing U.K. is a little bit off his track (who is going to Brown btw), I decided to just stay neutral on these conditions and align with Rwanda (which is also weird, in the real U.N. session Rwanda won’t have much position on these questions but this guy is pretty agressive and dedicated to get the best speaker prize i guess…), so the current situation for Australia is to have the working paper done for tmr.
Hopefully we won’t have any random crisis tonight from 12-6:30 any time between this period..if it happened, it will be totally sucked…
Anyways, I wish tomorrow we can finish our current crisis with Syria smoothly and finish the Kurdish Questions before the sessions end.
