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….
DVR This: AMC, Available on Amazon.com and ITunes While a bunch of people stopped watching The Killing – the moody, slow and rainy series about murder detectives in Seattle – after they failed to reveal who killed Rose Larsen at the end of season 1, I suggest you return, either on TV or DVD. This…
thursday, aug. 1 Jess T. Dugan: artist’s talk Queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity…
BY NEAL PUTNAM A judge Wednesday ordered a murder trial for an employee of architect Graham Downes who was beaten to death following a night of heavy drinking at a party at his Banker’s Hill home on April 19. Higinio Soriano Salgado, 31, pleaded not guilty following a preliminary hearing conducted by San Diego Superior…
Today, White House Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf issued the following statement on the murder of Cameroonian LGBT and AIDS activist Eric Ohena Lembembe: We deplore the brutal murder of Eric Ohena Lembembe, who was found tortured to death in his home in Yaoundé yesterday. We condemn this terrible act in the strongest terms and urge the Cameroonian authorities to thoroughly…
It has been reported that a 39-year-old airport senior airport administrator was savagely stabbed and trampled to death before his body was stuffed in a box, placed in his car and set on fire. While the victim’s name is being withheld, three suspects – whose names are also being withheld at this time – have…
LONDON (CNN) — As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques, authorities made a 10th arrest in last week’s knifing death of a British soldier. Armed police arrested a 50-year-old man on a street in the town of Welling in southeastern England. The man’s connection to the case…
NEW YORK (CNN) — Police are investigating the slaying of a 32-year-old man in the Greenwich Village neighborhood early Saturday as a hate crime because the gunman made multiple anti-gay comments, they said. It is the third violent attack in two weeks believed to be motivated by anti-gay bias, police said. The suspect’s anti-gay remarks…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, 8:15 p.m., May 18 I don’t think Murder by Death is as good as the similarly themed Clue – both of them are parodies of the 1970s Agatha Christie murder mysteries – but it is still great fun. Written by Neil Simon, the film’s conceit is that a rich madman…
In the age of ubiquity, where pathologies of every stripe, human or otherwise, have been hyper-indexed, a certain degree of detachment is required in recognizing the barbaric acts of others. We may not understand how (or, more importantly, why) a mob of people, with the full participation of its citizenry, may close in on a…
