{"id":2781,"date":"2013-05-28T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:46:00","slug":"gay-rights-activist-latest-target-of-citys-anti-lgbt-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/28\/gay-rights-activist-latest-target-of-citys-anti-lgbt-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay-Rights Activist Latest Target of City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Anti-LGBT Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eugene Lovendusky, founder of the group Queer Rising, spent much of the past month protesting New York City’s recent uptick in gay-bashings<\/a>, but over the weekend, he became the victim of yet another bias attack. The 28-year-old Queens resident says he was leaving a club near Times Square with his boyfriend and a friend early on Saturday morning when a group of teenagers started yelling “faggot” at them. “By instinct, I turned around and said, ‘You can’t say that to me,'” Lovendusky tells DNAinfo<\/a>. He says that’s when one of the teens punched him in the jaw, knocking his glasses off his face.<\/p>\n

Lovendusky called 911, and a short time later, police arrested 19-year-old Manuel Riquelme, who was found at a pizzeria with friends on 40th and Ninth Avenue. Riquelme has been charged with felony assault as a hate crime and misdemeanor aggravated harassment. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s further proof that anyone no matter how strong or vocal you are in the community can be a victim,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0Lovendusky told<\/a> the Post<\/i>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If anything this will only strengthen my resolve.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Eugene Lovendusky, founder of the group Queer Rising, spent much of the past month protesting New York City’s recent uptick in gay-bashings, but over the weekend, he became the victim of yet another bias attack. The 28-year-old Queens resident says he was leaving a club near Times Square with his boyfriend and a friend early … <\/p>\n

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