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New York City’s LGBT community came together in an intense show of force on May 20 to protest the rash of anti-gay hate crimes in the city, most recently the fatal shooting of gay man Mark Carson.

New York City’s LGBT community reacts to a string of unrelated alleged hate crime attacks that occurred in the city over the course of a week.

New York City police are investigating a brutal daytime attack on a gay couple outside Madison Square Garden as a hate crime.

A 22-year-old man says his father tried to light him on fire because neighbors constantly made fun of the victim’s sexual orientation and because he was HIV positive.

A gay man in San Antonio, Texas, says three brothers in his apartment complex beat him because he is gay. The brothers claim the victim had taunted them and came onto them. Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

A French couple say that they were beaten in Paris because they were gay may reflect tensions as the country debates legalizing same-sex marriage.

A waiter at a Minnesota Applebee’s says a coworker’s husband attacked him with a 2x4 because he’s gay, then he was told he couldn’t work in the restaurant because that same couple had complained about him.

A leading LGBT activist in Kentucky says he was the victim of a hate crime after vandals damaged his car and drew a swastika on his bumper sticker.

A gay man from Davis, Calif., says he was verbally and physically attacked by a neighbor on Sunday. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

A lesbian from Texas says she was beaten by a man because she is gay after she tried to defend her girlfriend’s four-year-old son against a group of bullies.