Gay man beaten by slur-yelling attackers in LGBT-friendly West Hollywood
BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS 09 APR 2016 AT 20:13 ET West Hollywood, California, is generally known as an LGBT-friendly city, but a worker at a popular bar says he was called gay slurs during a violent attack on Friday, KTLA reports . Christopher de la Cruz says he was leaving the bar at about 1 a.m. when two men attacked him, hitting him in the face and pushing his head into the dirt. “They attacked me because I was gay,” he told KTLA. De la Cruz said the attackers held him at knife-point and took his wallet and credit cards. “The other guy came up to me, ski master over his head, and said you f*cking f*g,” de la Cruz told KTLA. He reported the incident to authorities and said he believes it was a hate crime. “They took off running, laughing like it was a joke,” he Watch the KTLA report here Article Link