Video: LGBT Flash Mob Stages "Die-In" At Grand Central

Disturb my commute and you're getting a kick for sure. Gay straight whatever.

Anti-anything hate is wrong, especially when acted upon. Everybody of reason knows it is wrong. Since many groups are already given protected status, have special statutes drafted to protect their individuals, have political power,legal protections and media coverage that exceeds other less vocal groups, what is trying to be accomplished by such a display? Not to be all Paula-ish, but what else is wanted? The folks that perpetrate such heinous acts are not going to be affected by the above, and the rest of us know right from wrong.

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Maybe Paula would prefer that LGBT folks exercise our Second Amendment rights?

They wouldn't know how. That requires some level of personal responsibility and they want none of that. They want YOU to take resposibility for THEIR actions.

Agenda. Agenda. Agenda. "We're gay, treat us differently". "We're gay. Attacks on us are more important than attacks on other people." "We're gay, so we deserve special rights and special protections not available to mere people."

Its 24/7/365

It gets old really, really, fast.

What the fuck are you talking about? Die.

This was a wonderful protest, keep up the good fight guys.

And it's so sad that people like Paula still exist in this world but I'm glad that she voiced her opinion so people can see exactly why protests like these are necessary.

Disrupting peoples' commute is not a good way to discourage violence.

Hm. "Lost 30 seconds of my day" compared to "Systematic violence motivated by bigotry." Let me put those on my scale & see which one wins on the world's tiniest violin contest. Oh look at that! I couldn't even hear it over the roaring sound of privilege.

Disrupting peoples' commute is a good way to encourage conversation and attention. Truly, until we have equality and protection under the law, this is our new civil rights movement. And there will continue to be acts of non-violent civil disobedience until that day comes.

Fact: A group of gay men were bashed on the corner of W.25th and 9th Avenue in NYC last week



Fact: A man was bashed in the bathroom of the Stonewall Inn in NYC last weekend



Fact: 3 gay men were tortured, whipped, burnt and sodomized in the Bronx last week.



Fact: Governor Paterson of New York said "Attention must be paid!" at the rally in Washington Square Park last week



Fact: ALL of these men would be happy to know that a group of 300 strangers laid on the cold linoleum of Grand Central Terminal to bring attention to their vicitmization and that LGBT hate-crimes in America must stop!



Fact: In such dyer situations as these, you really are either with us or against us. Join the fight or shut up.



Sincerely, Eugene (the tall guy in glasses addressing the crowd/shouting the victims' names)

"Join the fight or shut up"???

SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!! (Oh, I forgot...)

Yeah you would forget. The last time someone would ever put anything in your ass was probably a long time ago.

I have plenty of Gay and Lesbian friends/aquaintances and they don't tell you their sexual orientation at all until the subject comes up. They also don't only care about themselves too.

So in effect, you have no argument. You just don't like Gay people. That's all. I seriously hope you aren't a minority yourself; that would be the greatest irony of them all!

You are simply a criminal. You and your thuggish gay fascists should have been arrested. "Boo-hoo...look at us...WE are 'special' victims because we are GAY!" You make me sick.

The Stonewall attack was a ROBBERY; the guy was beat up after he refused to give the attackers $20. And the 3 to 5 stitches the guy took over his right eye hardly qualifies as "horrific", as the idiot lesbian city council speaker called it.

And surprise surprise...a street gang beats up a gay guy because he's gay. You would think that street thugs who think nothing of opening up with a semiautomatic pistol in a playground filled with children or beating an old woman to a pulp for her purse would be more tolerant and respectful of your "diversity" and "special" status.

"Attention must be paid"? That's the problem with ALL you gay and lesbian people. EVERYTHING is about YOU! You are the most self-involved, narcissistic, petty and demanding people on the face of this earth.

And we are frankly SICK of you crap. If there's a backlash -- and I strongly suspect there will be -- it will not be "because you're gay" -- it will be because you are all of the things aforementioned AND you are simply OBNOXIOUS.

Keep your sexual "preference" in the bedroom like everyone else. We're SICK of HEARING ABOUT IT!!!

Paula, you sound really angry, but that doesn't make you a majority. Most New Yorkers do not agree with you. Read the papers and look at some polls. You're in the minority on this one. Gay rights (human rights!) are inevitable. You can't stop it. You can only get angry.

PaulaNYC, I dont understand why you keep saying "WE" are sick of it. Are you expecting a bunch of straight people to back the idiotic comments that you're posting? You are alone in this disgusting homophobic hate. I think you will have a hard time finding straight fellows in this city who will support you in what you have said here so far. Yeah, I can definitely see some people being a annoyed because their commute has been slowed down by a minute or less, especially the metro north commuters because they do have an actual train to catch, but thats so different from being hateful, like you are.

Like eugloven said, disrupting peoples' commutes is a good way to encourage conversation, but it is not a good way to discourage violence, I have to agree with polite new yorker. Either way, its something. And out of all the possible crazy and awful ways my commute in NYC could be disrupted, THIS is the best way. If I was there, I would have joined them. Man, at least for the experience of laying down on the floor of Grand Central with a bunch of other people! AWESOME!

Times change, indeed. What had been a mostly tolerant New York has frankly had enough of your self-involved self-pity. You act as if every crime committed upon a "LGBT" is some 21st Century Holocaust. We're SICK of it -- and we're SICK of your assertion that you're somehow deserving of a special class of rights.

So, if that makes me a "homophobe" -- or whatever other word you and your brethren dream up to define those who oppose your agenda of "super rights", then so be it.

You break the law have one of your "DIE INS" that causes ME to delay a trip, you're likely to get an "accidental" kick in the ribs or a foot on your stomach.

The "super right" to not be murdered, assaulted, tortured, or bullied because of their sexual preference? CRAZY. Next they will want to be allowed to vote, or to get married. SLIPPERY SLOPE people. If we treat gay people like human beings, they'll want to be treated like people, too! CRAZY. But I guess I'm a radical leftist, what with my whole "if somebody gets tortured that is a bad thing" political stance. Extremist!

Keep on trollin!

Mostly tolerant? If NYPD hadn't raided Stonewall to begin with, there'd be no gay rights.

I'm sick of straight people who have every break in the world bitching about gay people wanting a little bit of respect. You, Paula, are a terrible person.

Oh, and very sorry to interrupt your commute home while bringing attention to the continued intolerance towards the LGBT community. Hope we didn't prevent you arriving in time to feed your cats and catch a 'Three and a Half Men' rerun.

Well, what do you expect when the Chief Moron of the Band of Idiots known as "The City Council" says that the beating of gays by a group of gang thugs is "the worst crime" she can remember? When she describes it as 'horrific' that some gay guy got some stitches and lost some teeth in a bar brawl?

Her hyperbole about ONLY crimes committed against gays has caused this and now ALL the LGBT will be playing the "victim" card.

The backlash will put you farther back in your cause, Ms. Quinn. But you can't see that because you're a RADICAL LEFTIST.

PaulaNYC: I pray that none of your children (assuming someone would pro-create with someone as cold-hearted as you present yourself to be) grow-up gay. Because lord knows how unwelcome they would be in their own home.

Times change.

The one and only time I was at a demo in GCS it was peaceful, less disruptive than this, but the cops billy-clubbed the hell out of us for no reason, nevertheless .

They thought we were RADICAL LEFTISTS. And we were, Paula, we were. You have no idea what a radical leftist is. No idea at all, if you think Quinn is one.

You sound a bit like a fascist. Are you? Or does homophobe describe you more accurately?