When i first read this story yesterday on Keith Boykin website i was sadden to hear another person has been attacked in the brooklyn area for being gay and black. Hate crimes in the Brooklyn area has been growing over the years and it doesnt seem to be ending anytime soon. Will black gays who live in the area now have to fear to walk down the street because they may not come back home. On May 12, 2007 in Brooklyn in the Crown Heights area 20 year old Roberto Duncanson was stabbed 4 times by 17 year old Omar Willock who claims he stabbed roberto because he was staring at him. But this case is just the beginning of a long line of gay bashing and killings in the area of brooklyn going back to 1986 incident in New York City. Three African-American men from Brooklyn were walking through predominantly white Howard Beach, Queens, when they were attacked by teenagers shouting racial slurs. Michael Griffin tried to flee and was killed when he ran into traffic on the Belt Parkway. In the same exact senerio on Oct 8, 2006 Michael Sandy 29 of Brooklyn died the same exact way, fleeing from his attackers who he met on-line but the online meeting was an set up where 3 white men age ranging from 16 to 20 met michael and tried to rob him as he was fleeing he got hit by a car and the driver never stopped but that was the end to the 3 guys attacking him, they beat him up some more as he laid there on the side of the road. Michael Sandy died a few days after his 29th birthday when he was taking off life support on Oct 13. But the gay bashing and killing does end there, how can you not forget 19 year old Rashawn Brazell and 26 year old Dwan Prince. Dwan Prince was gay bashed on June 8, 2005 where he was beaten up and put into a coma he is lucky he is alive due to the help of neighbors who intervened and saved his life, the person who attacked Dwan who is 25 year old Steven Pomie was sentence to 25 years in jail for the crime. Finally their the gruesome and horrible story of Rashawn Brazell who had his body cut up and put into bags and left alongside the tracks of a brooklyn train station, until this day his head has yet to be found. Rashawn was declared missing on valentine's day of 2005 and 3 days later around 3am is when his remains first started showing up in all there were a total of 15 bags with his remains. Detectives say that the killer had carefully traced rashawn's body with a sharp instrument before cutting the body apart with an electric chain saw, every cut was clean and on a joint, suggesting that the killer knew the human body. The medical examiner believes that Rashawn was kept alive for 2 days before being killed. The autopsy report shows cuts and stabs wounds to the side of his torso, indicating some kind of struggle. In closing all i got to say is people need to love every one regardless of sexual orientation and all gays needs to love themselves too cause no one else will. Be safe! stay protected! and Be proud!