First gay couple married at West Point are attacked

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department is investigating a bias attack on two men who were the first gay couple to be married at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Police say it happened at a food store in the New York neighborhood of SoHo while Daniel and Larry Lennox-Choate were shopping Sunday afternoon.

They say a man began shouting anti-gay obscenities at the couple. He then punched Daniel Lennox-Choate in the face.

The assailant fled on a bicycle after Larry Lennox-Choate said he intervened.

In a post on his Facebook page, Larry Lennox-Choate says it's difficult to believe that in 2015 they have to deal with anti-gay hate "in SoHo of all places."

No arrests have been made.

Daniel graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 2007, and Larry graduated two years later. They were married in 2013.

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