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Yesterday, hundreds of people gathered in College Point, Queens to protest the brutal attack that left a 49-year-old gay man clinging to life. Jack Price had been walking home on October 8 when he was savagely beaten—broken jaw, broken ribs, collapsed lung— by two men who called him gay slurs. Price's brother told the Daily News, "Nobody should have to worry about looking behind their backs. Parents have to teach their kids. They learn hatred and all that stuff at home."
Price recently emerged from his medically induced coma and spoke for the first time, saying, "I thought I died. I was bleeding all over the place." Based on the harrowing surveillance footage, police have arrested two suspects, Daniel Aleman, 26, and Daniel Rodriguez, Jr., 21, and their supporters were watching the parade. A 15-year-old friend of Rodriguez's said, "This whole rally is so pathetic. I don't think this is a hate crime because he doesn't have nothing against gay people."
Well, another friend of Rodriguez's spoke to WABC 7 last week (video below), essentially saying that Price deserved to be be beaten up because he allegedly propositioned Rodriguez and blew him a kiss, "I mean, I don't want no man blowing me a kiss either. Things happen. I been beat up too, but you don't see me and my family on news crying...Wounds heal." The friend also showed off his Leviticus 18:22 tattoo: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
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It's noteworthy that many prominent gay leaders opposed a NYC Hate Crime Bill when it was first passed around 1993 becaue it was introduced by a heterosexual woman, councilmember Catherine Freed.
Her bill enabled victims of hate crimes to sue the perps for monetary damages.
Her fellow councilmember at the time, a prominent LGBT mouthpiece, now state senator, Tom Duane (and Christine Quinn's employer at the time), as well as other GLID leaders, belittled it, saying that hate perps had no money for which to sue. Pretty presumptive, wouldn't you say? Also, pretty envious too.
The fact was that Freed worked with then-Speaker, Peter Vallone, Sr., at getting it passed. Duane pissed Vallone off, and received no favors. So, he went into a hissy fit.
I would love for some reporter to ask him if his opinion has changed.
Since this kid "doesn't have anything against gay people" I hope he has an eternally long prison sentence so he can enjoy all the gay sex he is going to be having in the slammer.
word.
the guy in the video is approaching self-parody.
that guy probably didn't proposition him.
even if he did, i don't think getting hit on -> BEAT SOMEONE INTO A GODDAMN COMA. if a straight woman whistled at a straight man, would it be okay for him to beat her? of course not. "things happen" is a hell of a euphemism for nearly beating a man to death over WORDS (if they happened at all!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense
I wish I could show that guy my Leviticus 11:9-12 tattoo, talking about how YHWH hates lobsters. We'd be like a matching set! We might make a cute couple.
Funny, last I checked marking one's flesh was also outlawed in Leviticus...
They should be prosecuted to highest degree. And that guy with the tattoo should be.......never mind.
I hope these two fecking slimebags dont hire Joe Tacopenis as their Liar and use the Hiram MonsterRat defense that they "accidentaly" beat this guy nearly to death. The guy just kept on smahing their fists and feet with his face and torso.... they were just trying to help him get up off the ground after he "fell".
The climate has been set so that those guilty of these deadly beatings and attacks, even when caught on video tape, claim we did not see what we just saw. We are so stupid they can just tell us what to think... and we will go for it.
Thanks MonsterRat, thanks "Rev." Ruben Diaz.... you slimebags should rot along side these two other twisted vermin. Thanks dopes over at NOW, NARAL, GMHC etc... and the rest of the blowhards that have routinely defended and supported the scum like MonsterRat and his filthy, two faced, self serving, corrupt criminal cronies. You all know that these pieces of human garbage that you support in good times will turn on you when things get ugly. Yet you could care less.
These little puke faced bastardds think they can go out and beat the crap out of a gay guy for a laugh ??? Yeah, they do. They have done it many times before to their girlfriends, staright kids in the neighborhood that they just enjoyed picking on and anyone else that crossed their path on the wrong day. Nobody gave a shitt then... The Rat thinks he can beat the crap out of his "girlfriend" and slice her face open. He thinks he can run over a tow truck driver sent to repo his car because he doesnt want to pay his loan... he thinks he can push and shove an old man that gets in front of him in the 7-11 store... THATS WHAT THESE SCUM DO EVERYDAY !!! Thats how they live... ROT IN JAIL AND/OR HELL YOU SCUMMBAGS......
All of you that gave money and support to the Rat in the past (NOW, NARAL, GMHC) can thank yourselves.. you have helped make this place a cesspool.
These 2 lowlives don't have the $$ for Tacopina; I hope they get their payback in prison because karma is a bitch & they will be bitches soon enough :):)
I reiterate my earlier statement that only an extremely stupid gay man, trying desperately to burrow further into the closet, would get such a tattoo.
I'm really sorry that the guy's fighting for his life, but seriously - do most Americans give a rat's arse about gays and their plight...?
Hey freddynyc, I'd be willing to bet that "most Americans" don't give a rat's ass about your sorry ass either, but through the miracle that is constitutional democracy, that doesn't mean you lose your right to freedom from violent assault. In any case, I'll bet that a good number of Gothamist readers, at least, do indeed give a rat's ass that there are feral dogs roaming the streets of the city ready to maul anyone who threatens their primitive masculinity and whom they think is an easy target about whom "most Americans" don't give a rat's ass. And frankly, my dear, I don't give a rat's ass whether you or "most Americans" or Jesus Christ Almighty gives a rat's ass about me or my so-called plight. There's a law in New York that punishes people for acting violently on their hateful bigotry and I give a rat's ass that it's being enforced and that other people, whether they give a rat's ass or not, also see that it's being enforced.
So if a gay man blow you a kiss it's reason to beat him up? How about just ignore it and walk away.
The spineless, chauvinistic fucktards are too cowardly to even stand up for their bigoted convictions. Stay classy College Point.
How 'in the closet' must one be to the point that you get an anti-gay TATTOO on your arm? How can anyone be that obsessed?!
Wow, if I beat the shit out of every heterosexual male who made unwelcome propositions and suggestive gestures and remarks to me, I'd be in jail for life.
But it would be worth it.
How's this for a tattoo: FUCK OFF:)