Meet Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, a couple who have been married for two years after meeting at military school.

They both live in New York together after graduating from West Point Military Academy. Daniel has a master’s degree in business from Harvard and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the academy both men trained in boxing as cadets (Plebe) as well as other high level military exercises.

Over the weekend, the couple were shopping in downtown Manhattan together when a homophobe approached them and started verbally abusing them. The 40-year-old man then sucker-punched Daniel.


What the homophobe perhaps did not realise was that this was not a couple, who were going to allow themselves to be victimised.



Writing on Facebook after the incident, Larry described how the homophobe ‘left covered in his own blood with his tail between his legs’ after he ‘tossed him in the street like the coward loser he is’.

He added: ‘We refuse to be victims and are thankful we can defend ourselves, but are saddened by the fact that idiots like this guy might not pick two guys who went through Plebe Boxing next time.’

NYPD officers are now investigating the incident as a hate crime. No arrests have been made so far.

Larry and Daniel have faith that ‘positive outcomes will follow’.

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