Fatal stabbing shakes city's gays

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Fatal stabbing shakes city's gays
No suspects in Dorchester killing
By Maria Cramer
Globe Staff / January 26, 2008

Tall and reed thin, Mark Snyder speaks in a soft, delicate voice and uses mannerisms he describes as effeminate.


Snyder said he always felt comfortable being himself and walking hand in hand with his boyfriend around Boston, a city he described as much more tolerant of gays and lesbians than his hometown in rural Pennsylvania.

But the stabbing death of his friend, 20-year-old Daniel Yakovleff, a gay hairstylist from Roxbury, has caused Snyder to question how safe he is.