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Velvet in the Gay Village is a definite contender for the best mid-priced place to stay in the city.
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Stages and performance spaces are part and parcel of the Gay Village, which hosts a range of concerts and parties.
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Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion is home to the fictitious Dafydd, the "only gay in the village".
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Famed for their trademark macho outfits, including a policeman's uniform, a red Indian, and a construction worker, Village People - named in tribute to the New York's Greenwich Village gay district - launched themselves on the disco world in the late 1970s.
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The city and especially the Village have long been beacons for gay people.
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The gay rights movement crystallized in the Village in June 1969, when a police raid at the Stonewall Inn touched off a riot and demonstrations that came to symbolize gays' resistance to being relegated to society's shadows.
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The Stonewall was a mob owned bar (although it had no liquor license or, for that matter, running water behind the bar) in Greenwich Village that catered to some of the most marginalized people in the gay community of the day.
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New York (CNN) -- Police are investigating the slaying of a 32-year-old man in the Greenwich Village neighborhood early Saturday as a hate crime because the gunman made multiple anti-gay comments, they said.
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In one, a 45-year-old man was attacked late Monday in the East Village by a drinking companion who yelled an anti-gay slur and knocked him unconscious, police said.
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In 2010, authorities said Bronx gang members beat and tortured four people in an anti-gay rage, two men were accused of a gay-bashing beating at the Stonewall Inn itself and a man spewed homophobic insults while throwing a punch at another Village bar all assaults that happened within little more than a week.
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