Pride Weekend Anti-Gay Assault in NYC Leaves Man Bloodied, Beaten

[JackBeck]

Joe Holladay, a former Village Voice sales rep, http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/06/gay-bashed_on_p.php">was beaten by a group of men on New York's upper east side on Saturday. The group called Holladay a "faggot" as they beat him, likely with a blunt object.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/06/gay-bashed_on_p.php">The Village Voice reports: "Holladay tells us that he walked out of John Jerome's apartment on East 85th Street between York and East End Avenues, where he'd been staying, at about 4 a.m. to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk, and five or six young men swarmed him. 'It's very blurry,' he says, 'But yeah, they said 'faggot.' And the next thing I know I'm in the hospital.' Jerome, an acting coach, heard the fracas and came downstairs to find his friend 'in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. He wasn't moving.' Jerome says neighbors in the building told him, and the police, that they saw a group of five or six young white men 'with crewcuts, wearing wife-beaters' smoking pot outside the building just before the incident -- and, drawn to their window by the noise when the beating occurred, heard the anti-gay epithets and saw the young men pile into a car and drive away."

Said Holladay: The mark on my forehead looks like it was made by the base of a gun."

The NYPD has interviewed Holladay and witnesses and is investigating the assault.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/pride-weekend-gay-bashing-in-nyc-leaves-man-bloodied-beaten.html

I've seen comments recently from others claiming that we have it so much easier in NYC. This bashing isn't an anomaly. They happen all the time.

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[JackBeck]

3. A reminder of how much work we still have ahead of us.

[pleah]

2. K&R Very sad.

[JackBeck]

5. On the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall.

The more they try and silence us, the stronger we become.

[Raster]

4. But don't you straight folks worry now. We just shuffle off to the back of the bus...

...that is, unless it's our turn under the bus. Again.