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Police in Norwalk, Connecticut have arrested a man accused of severely beating a gay couple outside the gay bar they jointly own last month. Ruiz went to the front door to de-escalate the situation, at which point, Fitzpatrick says, the man made disparaging statements about the bar and the people inside it, using derogatory language and anti-LGBTQ slurs.

Gay couple beaten and bloodied outside Connecticut gay bar

The suspect then turned violent, punching Ruiz, clawing at his chest, tearing the cross necklace, and norwalk his clothes. Fitzpatrick restrained him while Ruiz called The man then calmed down, and Fitzpatrick loosened his grip, at which point the man attacked him. On Oct. But Fitzpatrick and Ruiz reject that assertion, saying they had cooperated with law enforcement and had never missed an appointment.

The attack comes on the heels of recent stories involving altercations at or outside gay bars in other cities. In Florida that same month, a man reportedly brought an inactive grenade inside a gay bar in Wilton Manors, and had to norwalk disarmed by a quick-thinking employee.

Defense attorney David Marantz, who represents Parisi, claims that his client was escorted out of the bar and attacked without provocation. Police are asking anyone with additional information about the attack to call the police department at Police in Bogor, Indonesia, say they arrested 75 people for attending what they called a "gay party" at a villa in the Puncak area on June According to Amnesty International, 74 of those arrested were men and one was a woman.

A Church of England parish has paid a five-figure settlement to Matthew Drapper, a year-old gay man who says he was subjected to an exorcism intended to "cure" him of homosexuality. Drapper, a volunteer at St. Thomas Philadelphia -- a joint Anglican-Baptist church in Sheffield, England -- told The Times gay during an "Encounter with God" weekend inhe was told "sexual impurity" had let demons enter his body and that he needed an exorcism to cast them out.

He said a married couple who served as prayer leaders at the church performed the exorcism, instructing him to "break agreements with Hollywood and the media" that had led him into what they called an "ungodly lifestyle. Jackson Vogel has been sentenced to life without parole for strangling his cellmate -- year-old Micah Laureano, a Black gay man -- inside Green Bay Correctional Institution in what prosecutors described as a racially and homophobically motivated killing.

The Wisconsin inmate was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide by a jury last month. Before sentencing, Vogel -- who was already serving a year term for attempting to kill his mother inwhen he was just 16 bar told Brown County Circuit Judge Donald Zuidmulder he was "sorry" for his actions, although he did not appear to show any signs of regret.

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