The Gazette reports that two homeless men told police that two men made anti-gay slurs before stabbing them Sunday. Two Colorado Springs men were arrested in the attack. The homeless men were treated for their injuries.

Police Sgt. Steve Noblitt said the stabbings aren't being investigated as a hate crime. He says the motive could be the growing friction between transients squatting in vacant homes and area residents.

On July 3, a hate crime was reported outside a restaurant.

A group of men and women who had been at a local gay club told police they were assaulted by five men and two women who called them "faggots" before attacking them.