NEW YORK CITY — In what was initially reported as an attack over a cellphone but was later confirmed as a fatal anti-gay attack of a 69-year-old Queens man, Ever Orozco was stabbed seven times by Steven Torres, 22, near Roosevelt Avenue and 90th Street as the elderly man was feeding a meter with coins….
Mister Cee, the popular New York City-based HOT 97 DJ who was forced to resign after his solicitation of a male prostitute was leaked to the public, Tweeted later that day that he may be “better off dead.” The scandal began on Wednesday, according to reports in RolliingOut.com, AllHipHop.com and other Web sites devoted to hip-hop…
Marry Me A Little, being presented at Diversionary Theatre, is a Stephen Sondheim musical revue that features many of the composer’s unknown musical gems that have been cut from several of his shows. Some of those shows are well known (Follies and Company) and some are not (Saturday Night). Playwright and performer Craig Lucas and…
One of two men who assaulted a gay man in a North Park alley on Halloween in 2010 lost his bids to reduce his felony conviction to a misdemeanor and to terminate his probation early. Michael John Brandon, now 26 and from Santee, made the requests through his attorney, Dana Feuling before San Diego Superior…
Two lesbians helped catch a rape suspect in Ocean Beach after they heard the victim screaming next door to where they were pet sitting and chased him for a distance until police arrested him. Hali Moore identified Richard Christopher Butts, 26, as the man who ran away from a woman who screamed she had…
dvd of the week The second in JJ Abram’s reboot of the Star Trek franchise starts out a few years after the last film. A rogue Star Fleet officer (Benedict Cumberbatch) bombs a top secret weapons lab, and, then when they are assembled to discuss it, he kills half of Star Fleet’s leadership. Seeking vengeance,…
NEW YORK, — Actor Wendell Pierce (HBO’s The Wire) takes the lead in a new film, Four, in which he plays a closeted middle-aged man who, while away from his family on a “business trip” on the Fourth of July, is actually out on a date with a teenage boy he met online. And while he’s away,…
A 36-year-old Missouri man has been charged with a felony of recklessly endangering other people’s lives after his roommate and on-again, off-again lover discovered he was HIV-positive. David Mangum, who lives in the small community of Dexter, was charged in Stoddard County Circuit Court in southeastern Missouri. Magnum is jailed on a $250,000 cash-only bond….
by Neal Putnam On January 19, two East County men pleaded guilty to felony assault of a gay man on Halloween in North Park. Both men face up to one year in county jail. Christopher Matthew Blount and Michael John Brandon, both 23, admitted to beating Jacob Harsh-barger, 32, as he was walking his two…
