BOSTON (AP) — A Lynn man pleaded innocent to assaulting two gay men outside a Boston nightclub last spring, and the state’s attorney general requested a civil rights injunction against him.

James Alevizos, 28, was released on $500 bail after pleading innocent in Suffolk Superior Court to two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of assault and battery and two counts of civil rights violation with injuries, said David Procopio, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney’s office.

Alevizos is scheduled back in court on the criminal charges on Nov. 4.

Attorney General Tom Reilly filed a preliminary injunction in Suffolk Superior Court.

Alevizos, 28, pulled up behind the two men at about 2:30 a.m. on April 28 as they were leaving “gay night” at the Avalon nightclub in the city’s Fenway section and shouted anti-gay epithets, the complaint said.

He and some passengers then allegedly kicked and punched the two men, knocking one unconscious and breaking the other man’s jaw in two places.

Reilly’s office said he was seeking the preliminary injunction to prohibit Alevizos from threatening the two men or anyone else based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation. The injunction would prohibit Alevizos from contacting the two men or approaching the Avalon, the men’s homes or workplaces.

BOSTON (AP) — Organizers of South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade asked a federal judge to stop the city from allowing controversial protest groups from walking the parade route right behind the authorized marchers.

The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which hosts the annual event, sued the city, claiming the Boston officials illegally allowed an anti-war group to march at the end of last year’s parade. Veterans for Peace joined at the end of the March 16 parade with permission from police.

John “Wacko” Hurley, one of the organizers, called the anti-war group “trespassers.”

Lawyers for parade organizers argued in court that protest groups that want to march the route should have to wait at least an hour after the authorized parade until crowds have dispersed.

Parade organizers have long battled to keep gay and lesbian groups out of the parade, winning their case in the U.S. Supreme Court a decade ago.

A lawyer for the city suggested protesters should be allowed to walk behind police cars marking the end of the march, 50 yards behind the main parade.

“If this is allowed, the first group behind those police cars will be the lesbians and gays,” said Chester Darling, a lawyer for parade organizers.

City attorney Mary Jo Harris said police are required by law to allow protesters access to public streets. Veterans for Peace was initially supposed to march behind police cars and street sweepers following the parade, but were allowed to walk in front of them because the vehicles were generating so much dust.

Darling asked the judge to assign federal marshals to next year’s parade to prevent the city from allowing protesters.

Judge Robert. B. Collings did not issue an immediate decision.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A Bloomington radio station planned to begin airing an hour-long program aimed at gay and lesbian interests.

“BloomingOUT,” a WFHB show, offers news and entertainment geared primarily toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

The first show was to feature an interview with Kinsey Institute Director John Bancroft.

“We try to think of stories that in some way pertain to the gay community but also have a general appeal,” said “bloomingOUT” co-producer Jeffrey Bennett.

Future programs may include segments on coming out, attempts to “cure” homosexuality and gay people from Indiana who have been successful in their careers.

WFHB News Director Chad Carrothers said the station hoped the program would promote communication not only within the gay community, but also between gays and heterosexuals.

Gary Pool, chief of the station’s news bureau, said the program also would include stories on gay and lesbian issues that often do not appear in other media.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Casper Chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles will take back the Ten Commandments monument if the city council decides it should be removed from a park.

Hash Nickerson, the chapter’s secretary, said the Eagles would still prefer the monument remain on city land in City Park where it has been for 38 years. The Eagles donated the monument to the city in 1965.

The city council met to decide what to do with the monument.

The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation asked the city to take down the monument, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution.

The council addressed the topic at a work session and decided to look into selling the piece of City Park on which the monument sits to a private party so that the monument can remain where it is.

But if selling the land is illegal, the city must either remove the monument or keep it and allow other groups to place monuments in the park.

The issue has drawn the interest of an anti-gay group in Kansas that has asked to put its own monument condemning homosexuality in the park.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The College of Charleston faculty senate is supporting a resolution that political pressures based on intolerance should not determine the school’s curriculum.

Larry Krasnoff, philosophy professor, said that academic freedom was threatened specifically because of intolerance of homosexuality.

The resolution was in response to administration objections to a faculty idea for a minor in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies. The resolution passed, 35-16, by secret ballot with one faculty senator abstaining.

College President Lee Higdon and Provost Elise Jorgens wrote a letter to the editor of The (Charleston) Post and Courier saying they did not support the new minor and plans to officially propose the minor were dropped.

Krasnoff said decisions about majors and minors should be made after “full, free and open deliberation” of the proposal’s academic merit.

State Rep. John Graham Altman III, R-Charleston, said he called Higdon and told him local legislators said such a program could jeopardize school funding.

Student government will discuss a resolution at its next meeting.

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators found an unlicensed pistol, pornography and Nazi paraphernalia at the home of a priest they arrested on suspicion of making harassing phone calls to a Catholic school, police said.

John Johnston of Queens was awaiting arraignment on charges of aggravated harassment and weapon possession, the NYPD said.

The 64-year-old priest was suspected of making a series of harassing calls to Bishop Laughlin High School in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, police said.

An unlicensed .38-caliber pistol was recovered in his home, along with unspecified, gay-themed pornography and Nazi paraphernalia, police said.

A police official described the calls as “threatening and alarming” but did not provide further details about their content.

A spokesman for the Brooklyn Diocese did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

KENTWOOD, La. (AP) — A nursing home that had rejected a stroke patient with HIV has accepted him, so a gay rights group plans to drop a federal discrimination complaint against it.

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund will continue its discrimination claims against five other nursing homes that refused to accept Cecil Little, 50, attorney Jonathan Givner said.

Little, who had been forced to live in a nursing home 80 miles from his family in the Kentwood area, recently moved into Kentwood Manor nursing home, Givner said.

“This is really all Cecil Little and his family wanted all along — to be within a few minutes drive, so the family can provide support as Cecil works toward recovery,” Givner said.

Little was on life support and in a coma for a month after suffering two strokes and brain aneurysms. A month before he was discharged from the hospital, his mother and sister approached six nursing homes within six miles of their own homes, Givner said.

All agreed to care for Little, but took back their decision after reviewing paperwork which showed he had the virus which causes AIDS.

Lambda Legal filed a complaint in July with the civil rights office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, alleging that the homes broke a federal law forbidding agencies which get federal money from discriminating against people with disabilities.

The complaint still stands against Tangi Pines in Amite; Heritage Manor in Franklinton; Belle Maison of Hammond; Heritage Manor of Hammond; and Hammond Nursing Home, Givner said.