Second degree aggravated harassment (which indicates bias) in Mastic Beach, NY – 3-on-1 attack committed against a lesbian who was taking pictures of her neighbor's dog. One of the attackers told her friends who were kicking/punching the victim something to the effect of “fucking rip the fucking queer's eyes out.” As of yesterday, Suffolk County police were treating it as a hate/bias crime. http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longis...

Assault as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment in Central Islip, NY – 1-on-3 attack, very large man started yelling slurs at three men walking down the street at 1:15am (around the same time that Leslie Mora was attacked), then started beating on two of them. http://www.longislandpress.com/2009/06/19/centr...

That makes nine incidents (that we know of) between June 19 and June 30. Five were in New York (either NYC or Long Island), one in California, one in Nebraska, one in Texas, one in the UK.

Of the ten victims, seven were gay men, two were lesbians, one was a transwoman.

One man is dead, nine other people were seriously injured, enough so that they all ended up in the hospital for some period of time, and – as we know – some are still there.

In six of the nine incidents, it involved multiples against one. A minimum of 23 people were involved (although there may have been as many as 27) in attacking ten people.

All of this is… disgusting. What is wrong with this fucking world, Matt? :-P

Second degree aggravated harassment (which indicates bias) in Mastic Beach, NY – 3-on-1 attack committed against a lesbian who was taking pictures of her neighbor's dog. One of the attackers told her friends who were kicking/punching the victim something to the effect of “fucking rip the fucking queer's eyes out.” As of yesterday, Suffolk County police were treating it as a hate/bias crime. http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longis...

Assault as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment in Central Islip, NY – 1-on-3 attack, very large man started yelling slurs at three men walking down the street at 1:15am (around the same time that Leslie Mora was attacked), then started beating on two of them. http://www.longislandpress.com/2009/06/19/centr...

That makes nine incidents (that we know of) between June 19 and June 30. Five were in New York (either NYC or Long Island), one in California, one in Nebraska, one in Texas, one in the UK.

Of the ten victims, seven were gay men, two were lesbians, one was a transwoman.

One man is dead, nine other people were seriously injured, enough so that they all ended up in the hospital for some period of time, and – as we know – some are still there.

In six of the nine incidents, it involved multiples against one. A minimum of 23 people were involved (although there may have been as many as 27) in attacking ten people.

All of this is… disgusting. What is wrong with this fucking world, Matt? :-P