Man Beaten After Leaving Gay Bar In Northwest (D.C.)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, 24 (UPI) -- Police in Washington are investigating an attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s intern that is believed to be a hate crime.

WTOP radio reported that the young man was attacked after leaving a nightclub early Sunday morning.

Police said the attacker used a derogatory term describing homosexuals before beating the man and sending him to the hospital, where he was treated and released.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/24/house_speakers_intern_attacked_and_beaten/2321/

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UPDATE: Man Beaten After Leaving Gay Bar In Northwest
Attack Follows 10 Days After Beating Of Transgender Person

WASHINGTON -- A hate crime investigation is under way in the District after a man left a gay-friendly bar in the District and was beaten by a group of young men, authorities said.

It was the third time this month that someone has been attacked based on their sexual orientation. News4's Michael Flynn reported that while the victim of this latest attack was beaten, his attackers used anti-gay slurs.

The victim left a gay-friendly bar on Ninth Street near the Convention Center in Northwest at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Police said that about a block away from the bar, three young men approached the man on bicycles and assaulted him.

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The victim in the latest crime is in his 20s and is a temporary employee with the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that fights for the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/14194084/detail.html

He was not an intern to Speaker Pelosi.

Sorry for any confusion that the initial report may have caused.

[Coexist]

1. I hope he's okay.

[liberalnurse]

3. Treated and release is a good sign for

"physical" injury/recovery...Emotionally, it could be a lifetime.:hug: :cry:

[Coexist]

6. that is so sad - I used to work in Ft. Lauderdale

and there was a girl I worked with, she told me her boyfriend and his buddies used to get drunk and wait outside of gay clubs, and harass those who came out alone.

WTF? I hope she was just being stupid. That is so horrid.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. People being stupid in Florida? I think we own the franchise.

[liberal N proud]

2. Bigotry is alive in the US

It may even be making a comeback with the neocons in power.

[Peregrine Took]

5. "Was it ever thus??" n/t

[Cha]

4. Oh dear! So sorry for the inhumanity that

runs rampant everywhere! I hope he's okay and they find who did it.

[mitchum]

7. Will prosecution be...off the table?

[DURHAM D]

8. Oh come on ...

[grasswire]

9. are we sure it was as simple as a hate crime?

Or was it a message to Pelosi?

[defendandprotect]

12. First thing that we should suspect --

There seems to be a lot of overt and aggressive stuff happening surrounding Congress --

It's a long trail of right-wing violence and it's increasing --

We can't know what happened here as yet, but I would look at this with suspicion, for openers.

[allisonthegreat]

28. Just more hate which leads

unfortunately to more hate...

[dsc]

10. I don't know which club this was but I was actually in DC this weekend

and was at a few clubs. I hope he is OK emotionally apparently he is physically.

[kansasblue]

25. that must be a new club. On 9th? Most are further west.

[Newsjock]

11. Update: Apparently an employee of Human Rights Campaign, NOT a Pelosi intern

http://washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=14461

... It was initially reported that the young man was an intern in the office of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, but it was later reported by WTOP that he was a Human Rights Campaign employee.

HRC confirmed to the Blade that he was a temporary employee hired to help organize HRC’s annual dinner.

He suffered a black eye, swollen lip and received stitches to the back of his head, according to an HRC spokesperson.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. Thank you

I had just found an article that cleared that up also. I've posted an update to the OP.

[Savannah_H]

14. reply

at least he got to leave...
in Iran.... he wouldn't even be ......

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. Didn't you hear? They don't have gay people in Iran

[0007]

21. Can you hear the booing and the hissing Freddie baby?

[Stand and Fight]

16. What an odd and ignorant statement.

The fact of the matter is that this young man was physically and verbally accosted. The fact that it happened in our nation's capital makes it all the more ugly and shameful. To hell with what would have happened to him in Iran -- it's almost as if you are somehow minimizing the reality of what has transpired.

[KurtNYC]

23. Since when is Iran the standard by which we judge bigotry?

what a disturbing comment to make.

[xchrom]

17. when i think of the preachers of hate railing against the hate

crimes bill -- and then i see this -- :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Ian David]

19. The Moonie Press Internatonal is not known for accuracy. n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. Quick! where was Ahmadinejad? I'll bet he did it.

violence against anyone is a crime, straight, gay, whatever. this looks like they track people and lay traps for them. Where are the police, given the history of these events? Or are the police complicit and purposefully NOT safeguarding that area? I hate public surveillance as a matter of course, but some sort of protection would sure seem appropriate here.

[Olney Blue]

22. It's hard to believe there are still people this ignorant and mean.

:grr:

[NMMNG]

26. Sadly, it's not

There are entire organizations dedicated to hating us and trying to cause us harm. It's not hard to believe this still goes on at all. :-(

[Virginia Dare]

24. I wonder if Tucker was in town when this happened...n/t

[flashl]

27. There mean and angry cowards out there. n/t