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Subway Bashing Lands Gay Man in Emergency Room
A gay man returning home on the subway early Saturday evening, June 28,
with his partner after a church LGBT pride picnic was harassed and
beaten by a heterosexual couple after the gay men boarded at
Christopher Street. On a crowded, Brooklyn-bound Seventh Avenue train
making local stops, the male assailant, seeing that the victim was
carrying a copy of Gay City News, said, "You people make me sick,
you're disgusting," and began to pummel his face, breaking his glasses,
and causing an injury below his eye that required seven stitches. The
victim, who asked that his name not be published out of fear of
reprisal, said the woman also clawed him with her nails.
The gay men left the train at Franklin
Street, but were followed by the assailants, who continued attacking
the victim on the platform. The victim said that when he asked the
conductor, looking out his window from the train, for assistance, the
MTA employee said simply that the train was going out of service, but
offered no help.
Upset by the reaction of the conductor, the
victim has asked the police, the New York City Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project, and the offices of City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn and State Senator Tom Duane to reach out to the MTA to
get that agency's cooperation in examining any video tapes it may have
of the incident. The man said he has not heard anything from the
transit agency.
The victim said the beating is being
investigated as a hate crime, but that he gave up looking at mug shots
after a couple of hundred; police told him that nearly 38,000 people
match the description he gave them of the male attacker.
with his partner after a church LGBT pride picnic was harassed and
beaten by a heterosexual couple after the gay men boarded at
Christopher Street. On a crowded, Brooklyn-bound Seventh Avenue train
making local stops, the male assailant, seeing that the victim was
carrying a copy of Gay City News, said, "You people make me sick,
you're disgusting," and began to pummel his face, breaking his glasses,
and causing an injury below his eye that required seven stitches. The
victim, who asked that his name not be published out of fear of
reprisal, said the woman also clawed him with her nails.
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The gay men left the train at Franklin
Street, but were followed by the assailants, who continued attacking
the victim on the platform. The victim said that when he asked the
conductor, looking out his window from the train, for assistance, the
MTA employee said simply that the train was going out of service, but
offered no help.
Upset by the reaction of the conductor, the
victim has asked the police, the New York City Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project, and the offices of City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn and State Senator Tom Duane to reach out to the MTA to
get that agency's cooperation in examining any video tapes it may have
of the incident. The man said he has not heard anything from the
transit agency.
The victim said the beating is being
investigated as a hate crime, but that he gave up looking at mug shots
after a couple of hundred; police told him that nearly 38,000 people
match the description he gave them of the male attacker.
