New York City police were already investigating a possible anti-gay bias crime after rainbow flags at the Harlem bar’s entrance were torched just after midnight May 31, a day before the start of the city’s Pride Month celebrations. NEW YORK (AP) - A rainbow flag was set on fire at the entrance to a New York City gay bar on Monday - the second such incident at the same club in just over a month.Īlibi Lounge owner Alexi Minko said staff members, alerted by someone on the street, found the flag had been set aflame between 12:20 a.m. A New York City police spokesman says the early Monday morning incident at Alibi Lounge is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The owner of a New York City gay bar says a rainbow flag was set aflame at the club’s entrance for the second time in just over a month. A burned rainbow flag lays on the stoop of the Alibi Lounge, early Monday, July 8, 2019, in New York City, New York.
