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Gay visitors to San Francisco attacked in street

Tue 27 Sep 2016 In: International News View at Wayback View at NDHA

San Francicso police are looking for a group of men who attacked two gay visitors to the city for the Folsom Street Festival, a gay leather lifestyle festival, hurling homophobic abuse and pepper spraying them in the street. Jeff White (r) and Neil Frias Jeff White, 28, says he was outside a hamburger restaurant when the occupants of began insulting him because he is gay, shouting comments such as "You fags are destroying family values." As the attack began Neil Frias, also 28, rushed to help White but was also caught up in the attack which continued until a woman passer-by shouted that she was calling the police. The attackers fled and police and paramedics attended the incident which left White blinded for around three hours.    

Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff

First published: Tuesday, 27th September 2016 - 12:49pm

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