Police Search For Teen Suspects In Brutal Brooklyn Gay Bashing, Hate Crime Occurs At SUNY, 250th St. Patrick’s Day Parade Continues To Prohibit Gays From Participating As Group, MTV Apparently Attempts To Edit Real World’s Dustin Zito Gay Porn Past Without Much Success, Zac Efron Smoking Sexiness, And Ryan Phillippe Hotness

The Brooklyn Paper reports that a 29 year old Brooklyn man was brutally beaten by a group of teenagers in February and that the attack has been deemed a hate crime. Barie Shortell was walking down North Fourth Street in Williamsburg at around 10 p.m. on February 22nd when a group of six teenager all wearing hooded sweatshirts started taunting him. “Oh shit, is that a guy or a girl?” one of the teens yelled. Shortell, who thought to himself that the slur was “juvenile,” crossed to Wythe Avenue just to be safe. But the group followed and shoved Shortell against a wall, fracturing his jaw, nose and eye sockets. He has no recollection of the attack. “I feel pretty confident they perceived me as a gay man and attacked me, but I can’t understand why they did what they did,” said Shortell. “I looked horrible. Blood was everywhere.” Shortell was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where surgeons operated for nearly 10 hours resetting his jaw, putting three metal plates in his head. A surgeon compared the force of impact to that of a car accident. Police closed the case initially, but classified it a hate crime after the Anti-Violence Project intervened. Still, to date, no arrests have been made. Shortell, who does not have medical insurance, remains focused on his recovery and his medical debts (which could cost as much as $100,000). A fundraiser –Gay Bash: A Benefit for Barie Shortell, is scheduled for March 23, the details available at www.bariebenefit.com.

WPTZ-5 reports that an outspoken advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights arrived on the Plattsburgh, New York campus of SUNY to speak to students, but before she was able get her message out, she was giving police the details on a hate crime. In a video Erin Davies shot of herself on March 8th, 2011, she describes what happened when she visited the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. “I’m heading back from Plattsburgh now. One of the students came upstairs and told me there was writing on my car,” Davies said, “Every college I’ve ever been to, every place I’ve ever been to for four years, no one has ever once written on my car until today.” Davies, who drives a Volkswagen Beetle replete with a rainbow flag and a pro-gay message, started to tour college campuses around the country four years ago after her vehicle was spray painted with derogatory messages. And now four years later, it is almost as if her story is starting all over again, on this occasion at PSU. “I'm putting myself out there and things like that might happen. I'm letting people know who I am, and I'm not doing it behind close doors. And for someone to do that to my car when I'm not there, I just think it's childish, you know?” Davies said. The SUNY Plattsburgh police have determined the vandalism is also a hate crime. Although there have not been a lot of them on campus, hate crimes have been steadily increasing over the years from none in 2007 to nine in 2009. “You really felt the feeling that Plattsburgh has a lot of that kind of thing going on maybe more than other places. I visit a lot of other places, but the people in the audience they weren't shocked; they weren't surprised. They were like 'This is what it's like living here,'" Davies added. But SUNY senior Tyler Rebello said he's been extremely comfortable being gay on campus and he's never felt intimidated. ”Things were so easy for me, but they're obviously not easy for everyone. Obviously people are willing enough to act on those emotions. It's certainly sad from the student perspective,” Rebello said.

The Irish Times reports on the 250th New York St Patrick’s Day Parade, the parade organizers’ continuing to refuse to permit gay people to participate. The committee in charge of the biggest parade in the world prohibits gay people from marching as a group, contending that gays and lesbians are free to participate as individuals but that allowing them to march under their own banner would be contrary to the purported Catholic ethos of the event. Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore supported the argument made by gay rights activists at a meeting on the day before the parade, according to participants, one attendee, New York City councilman Daniel Dromm, saying that Gilmore stated “exclusion is not Irish” and that contemporary Ireland “may not be the quaint Ireland that people have in their minds but it is a large, multicultural, inclusive nation”. Another participant, Seán Cahill, managing director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a New York-based organization, said that Mr Gilmore did not initially appear aware that the issue of the gay ban had not been resolved, but that the Tánaiste “made it really clear that he supports full equality for gay people”. Cahill added that Mr Gilmore undertook to raise the issue with parade organizers, saying he would argue that any St Patrick’s Day Parade “should celebrate Ireland as it is now.”

Previously I posted on the gay porn past (future) of The Real World Las Vegas cast member Dustin Zito, and now Reality Blurred.com reports that images of Zito performing for Fratmen and Fratpad have been removed from the site, and that the site has requested that bloggers remove images and links to images to effectively edit the Internet of any record of his promising career. The Sword reports that “The Spencer/Travis oral scene has been pulled from the Fratmen site, and Spencer’s live gay sex shows aren’t available on sister site Fratpad,” while at the same time, “multiple gay porn bloggers have been asked to remove promotional images of Dustin Zito/’Spencer’ engaged in gay sex,” and “Fratmen has sent specific requests to highly-trafficked gay porn blogs and forums, including JustUsBoys and WayBig, to remove Spencer’s gay sex images.” The site notes that “Fratmen is deliberately removing the scenes and attempting to scrub the internet of the content that’s responsible for the most publicity and national exposure they’ve ever had.” Ironically, Fratmen’s action has prompted The Sword to publish most of those images, now more accessible, all NSFW.

There is something so right (and dirty) about these pictures of Zac Efron, his new tattoo, and his armpit.

Smoking sexy DILF Ryan Phillippe spotted working out up in the Hollywood Hills alongside Amanda Seyfried.