http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2...al_beating.html

this is so upsetting, especially when it hits close to home.

Gosh what a tragic story. I'm so tired of having to still read about such hatred...

When I 1st saw the thread I immediately thought of a hs friend who now lives in Queens since he's not exactly the most butch guy. I panicked for a second.

I agree. This is why I think that sometimes we still need a gay neighborhood. It is ridiculous that this shit still happens.

Second Suspect ID'd

Reading some of the comments to the stories is very sad!

John King, though having our own places is important, we need to be safe as openly gay men and women in any neighborhood!

F*cking thug bastards. I hope someone rapes and beats the shit out of them in jail. I'm more Malcolm X than Martin Luther King so I'm not above retaliation. This is when I wish there was a "Dexter" somewhere out there taking out the garbage.

Surveillance video captures brutal beating of gay man, Jack Price, in Queens; Both suspects arrested

this is absolutely horrifying...suspect held on 20,000 dollar bail....just 20,000? unbelievable.

video also shows a car passing by and did nothing to help the man. oh boy....so sad.

hope mr. price makes it.




this is the ugly motherf**ker thug.

heh. True.

My initial reaction to these sort of stories is always a version of what you posted. Which is why I let this boil for a while.

I think Ellen hit the nail on the head when she discussed Larry King. It's not the thugs. It really is the system and the message that is still pervasive in many sectors of society today; a message that implies that us fags are lower than scum. The message needs to be changed.

Discounting the fact that the attackers probably have significant psycho-sexual issues themselves, they still need to be punished to the full extent of the law. That is not up for debate as far as I'm concerned.

My feeling in all this is that the change needs to start coming from the top down. The law of a democratic state, for better or worse, often represents the status quo. As long as the status quo remains ambivalent and the law still views gays as second class citizens, this behavior becomes implicitly acceptable to some degree. Which is bullshit. It flat out f**king isn't. In Canada and many other countries, the contentious issue of same-sex marriage became a non-issue virtually over-night once the laws were changed. So long as discrimination is allowed from the highest level, people are given no incentive to change their ideology. All this takes is a little leadership. A little backbone from politicians. Progress has certainly been made, but progress need not always come from the ground up. Where is the top down leadership we were promised? How many more need to suffer before any sort of meaningful change is initiated from the top?

This is where places like Singapore do things right. These criminals should be beaten and tortured and then painfully killed. If that type of punishment were common in this country, I strongly believe some of these scumbags would think twice.