EDGE Chicago

Leaders in New York City are urging the LGBT community to be careful meeting new people as three gay men have been strangled to death within the last few weeks.

While many tourists head to New York City with their eyes set on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, jump on the subway (approximately 15 minutes from Times Square depending on your final destination) and become "Queen" for a day.

Chap James Day said a man walked up from behind and punched him in the back on 36th Avenue in Astoria shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 30. He said his alleged assailant repeatedly called him a "faggot" during and after the assault.

Norfolk, Va., police officers and the U.S. Marshals took Daniel Rodriguez into custody last night at a relative’s home.

An estimated 100 people from the Queens Pride Center, Generation Q, the International Socialist Organization, Gay Peruvians of the Americas and other groups participated in the National Equality March in Washington on Oct. 11.