An interracial couple says they were assaulted outside a bar in Queens, New York, by a group of men who shouted racist and homophobic slurs. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel say they were leaving Billie’s birthday celebration early Saturday with a gay friend when the attack happened. Billie James-Vogel spoke to NY1.

Billie James-Vogel: “When I think about the slurs, the N word and the F word, it hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It breaks my heart. I see these guys rushing my husband, on top of my husband. I try to get them off of my husband. One of them grabs me and throws me to the ground. The back of my head bounces off the concrete sidewalk, and I black out.”

New York City police have arrested one man on charges of assault and harassment. Anti-gay attacks appear to be on pace to double this year in New York City. The NYPD says it has investigated 68 bias attacks against LGBT people so far in 2013, up from 54 in all of 2012. The attacks include the killing of 32-year-old Mark Carson in Greenwich Village in May.