House of Yes, a Brooklyn dance club, held a pop-up street party on Jin Herald Square, New York City when the Gay Pride march was canceled because of COVID-19. 18 raid of his home by the FBI and state authorities. “Thanks to News 12, we now know who you are, and where you are,” the missive said.įehring of Bayport was arrested on Monday after a Nov. The letter to the barbershop - which prosecutors said had recently received television coverage - called the business “the perfect target for a bombing and/or graffiti and/or a shattered window front. Robert Fehring was arrested after threatening New York City’s Pride parade. Other targets of Fehring’s threats included the CEO of an LGBT group based in Sag Harbor in Suffolk County, LI, and a queer barbershop in Brooklyn, according to prosecutors. “No matter how long it takes, you will be taken out…. EbenhackĪnother communication this year to the organizer of a Pride event in East Meadow, LI, told the man he was “being watched. Law enforcement block off a street outside Pulse Orlando after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at the nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. One such missive to the organizers of New York City’s 2021 Pride March promised “radio-contolled devices placed at numerous strategic places” that would explode, making the 2016 nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., “look like a cakewalk,” according to the criminal complaint. Robert Fehring, 74, threatened to “assault, shoot and bomb” LGBT-affiliated individuals, businesses, organizations and events, including the parade, according to prosecutors in new documents.įehring allegedly sent more than 60 letters that threatened violence, “including through the use of firearms and explosives,” dating back to at least 2013, said the Justice Department in the Eastern District of New York. Stranger randomly punches Asian woman in caught-on-camera NYC attackĪ Long Island man threatened to turn New York City’s massive Pride parade into a bloodbath that would make the Pulse nightclub shooting, which killed 49 people, “look like a cakewalk,” the feds said Monday. ‘You look Russian’: Ukrainian man stabbed in Brooklyn bar brawlĪustralian admits to pushing gay US mathematician off cliff in 1988 hate-crime murder
All are welcome to attend Black Prides.īlack Prides are planned and managed by the organizations dedicated to: building solidarity health and wellness promoting unity and ensuring the development of education, economic empowerment, and individual and collective work, responsibility and self-determination.Jerry Nadler is insulting his Asian-American constituents by supporting gerrymandering Attending events and seeing people who look like oneself with many of the same shared experiences, contributes to building stronger, healthier LGBT communities and is an effective way to combat homophobia and stigma in the Black community and racism in the greater LGBT community along with overcoming the cultural, communal and institutional barriers created by isms and phobias. Rather than encouraging separation, Black Prides encourage awareness of self and community, respect, dignity and many attendees of Black Pride events have returned to their homes to come out to friends, family and their communities.
Black Pride is the gateway to the greater LGBT community experience for many Black LGBTQ+ people.