Just a week after a gay man was murdered in NYC’s Greenwich Village, gay activist Eugene Lovendusky was hurt in a homophobic attack near Times Square. The 28-year-old co-founder of the grassroots LGBT group Queer Rising, said he was punched in the face early Saturday morning during an altercation with a group of men who hurled anti-gay slurs at him and his boyfriend, in what police are calling a hate crime. Read about that, and the string of homophobic attacks hitting NYC, here…[DNAInfo]
Here we go again! For the second time this year, a cruise ship has been crippled at sea, leaving thousands stranded, after a fire broke out on board. But this was no little fire! The blaze engulfed the stern, but the fire was contained and no one was injured. The 2,000 passengers are expected back to Baltimore on Tuesday (currently, they are stranded in the Bahamas). [WashPost]
The alleged crack smoking Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, is in deeper trouble than we thought. Police are investigating a tip that links the crack video to a murder in Toronto. Check out all the details…[Gawker]
He’s entitled to his own opinion…right? Or, was this homophobic? Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson told Sirius/XM NFL Radio in an interview last week that gay marriage is not something he believes in. “To each his own. I’m not with it,” Peterson said of gay marriage, via NESN.com. “But you know I have relatives that are gay. I’m not biased towards them. I still treat them the same. I love’em. But again, I’m not with that. That’s not something I believe in. But, to each his own.” [HuffPost]
