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Gay Couple Viciously Attacked, Hit Over Head With Chair, At Dallas BBQ In New York

A gay couple was bashed over the head with a wooden chair, knocked to the ground and kicked by two men hurling anti-gay slurs at a Dallas BBQ restaurant last night in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

The attack was captured on video (below).

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The two victims, Jonathan Snipes and Ethan York-Adam, were involved in a quarrel with other diners over a spilled drink, when a third man, jumped in.

According to Gothamist, Snipes, 32, had just received a text about a death in the family and knocked over a drink as they hurried to leave.

"A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, 'White faggots, spilling drinks,'" Snipes said. "I don't let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, 'What did you say about us?'"

The confrontation became violent a man from the table knocked Snipes to the ground, calling him "faggot" as he kicked his spine and face.

A witness, told CBS 2 it was Snipes who made the altercation turn physical: “That clearly was the case," said Isaam Sharef, who filmed part of the incident. "Everyone in the restaurant saw the guy walk right over to him and hit him in the face. It never would have gotten there if [Snipes] hadn’t attacked the other guy.”

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But Snipes insists he's never thrown a punch in his life and, at 140 pounds, he wouldn't be dumb enough to try then. "I may be a mouthy broad, but I wasn't going to take it to that level."

It was when York-Adams, 25, got Snipes to his feet that the bearded man hit him over the head with the chair.

"These guys attacked us specifically because they knew we weren't their type of people," Snipes told DNAinfo New York. He had a tooth knocked loose and cartilage snapped in his ear as a result of the beating. "It was disgusting. It was awful," he said.

The large, bearded man who hit Snipes with the chair in the video below is still at large. The NYPD is investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Watch !!!! Child, next to my table a fight in bbqs, and a man cracks a chair over someone's head and then runs out smh, as I waited on my chicken and shrimp combo and frozen apple tini #cincodemayo

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