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The attackers overpowered the couple, leaving one of the victims with a bruised face and the second with a gash to his chin that needed seven stitches.
Police were searching Wednesday for a group of brutes who assaulted two gay men in a hateful attack in Chelsea.
Cops say the victims, ages 27 and 53, had just exited the Chelsea Cinemas on W. 23rd St. just after midnight ? reportedly walking hand in hand ? when two men approached them at the corner of W. 24th St. and Ninth Ave. “What are you looking at, f----t?” one of the men asked, according to a police source.
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Michael Felenchak, 27, left, and Peter Norman, 53, were attacked by six men who were yelling anti-gay slurs, while they walked down the street holding hands in Chelsea.
The hateful words sparked an argument and fight, but the two victims were quickly outmatched when four other men joined their attackers, officials said.
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Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where they were treated and released.
The goons ultimately ran off, leaving one of the victims with a bruised face, police said. The second man sustained a gash to his chin that needed seven stitches to close.
Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where they were treated and released, officials said.
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Felenchak and Norman were attacked after exiting hand-in-hand from the Chelsea Cinemas on W. 23rd St. just after midnight.
Wednesday’s assault took place two months after a spate of anti-gay attacks rocked Manhattan ? a spree of violence that peaked with the May 17 shooting death of Mark Carson on W. Eighth St. in Greenwich Village.
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