Man wearing “leather mask, leather clothing and two collars” found dead on Hudson Street in New York's West Village: “The man couldn't be identified yesterday, because no form of ID was found. He was described as a white male in his late 30s.” Was mistaken for a Halloween decoration…
Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave calls a future with gay marriage “grim” and says it “is the most important issue that we face today.”
Timothy J. Kelleher, a 26-year-old resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was found guilty of a homophobic assault yesterday and sentenced to one year probation and 50 hours community service: “Garcia charged that the defendants began yelling homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs at him, calling him a ‘faggot Jew.' He then started yelling at the defendants as he approached their car, calling them ‘assholes.' Then, Garcia claimed, Kelleher allegedly exited his vehicle and struck Garcia repeatedly in the chest and the head….'Everything happened in a blur,' he recalled. He recounted that after he greeted a male friend with a ‘hug and a kiss on the cheek' and ‘putting [his] arm around [his friend],' the defendants began yelling ‘faggots, faggots' at him outside the window of their car. Garcia recalled then telling the two defendants in their car something akin to ‘you fucking assholes, you shouldn't say shit like that here.'” Charges dropped against second defendant.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger still sitting on bill that would give domestic partners the right to file taxes as married couples: “The bill, which is among a stack of bills that will become law unless vetoed by Saturday, would require California's 75,000 registered domestic partners to file their state tax returns as if they were legally married — even though they'd still have to submit single returns to Uncle Sam.”