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Bridgeport teen says he was attacked because he is gay

A Bridgeport teen says he fears for his life after he was attacked for being gay. Sixteen-year-old Philip Galbert says he was walking from a store on Connecticut Avenue to his church with two friends

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Oct 2, 2006, 10:31 PM

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