Buffalo woman stabbed in eye in gay-bashing incident

[Bob Hubbard]

Buffalo woman stabbed in eye in gay-bashing incident

Woman leaving club on New Year's Eve is stabbed in her right eye during attack


A Buffalo woman was stabbed in her right eye after she and two friends were attacked by two gay-bashing women outside a downtown club following a New Year's Eve celebration.

Lindsay C. Harmon said she and two friends were minding their own business as they walked out of Roxy's, a lesbian nightclub, at about 2 a.m. Friday to head home when two women, in the company of four men, shouted gay slurs at them and then attacked them.

Harmon, a 29-year-old West Side resident, does not have vision in her eye, and it is not known whether she will regain it. She has seven stitches in her right eyelid and eye, along with several stitches in her right cheek and her left arm.

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[grydth]

Hopefully the assailants will spend next New Year's Eve in the concrete hotel.

Amazing that anyone who would assault and maim a complete stranger actually feels superior.