Insulted gay men and transgender woman react violently in viral videos [video]
A couple of shocking videos made their way onto blogs and around social media this week. They allegedly show separate incidents where gay men and a transgender woman punch and kick men for insulting them in public. Though these types of videos are not new to the internet, they do not typically garner as much attention. Both incidents were saved to the servers of WorldStarHipHop.com where they have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
The first reportedly took place near the Times Square, NYC subway, and text that accompanied the video claimed the person being attacked shouted out “that’s a man” at a transgender woman and her friends:
The second video takes place in a mall eatery, and text with the video alleges that two young gay men attacked another man for calling them “fags”:
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