NEW YORK, NY June 12, 2006 —A recording artist whose jaw was broken in the East Village by young men who allegedy yelled anti-gay slurs left the hospital today, his leg in a brace and his jaw wired shut. Kevin Aviance clutched a bouquet of yellow roses as he left Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. Aviance appeared on the Billboard dance music charts in 2002 and 2004 with his songs "Give It Up" and "Alive." Four men were arrested on charges of first-degree assault as a hate crime.