Calls for Healing After Antigay Attacks

[keepCAblue]

Source: NY Times

New York City officials and the police on Saturday called it the worst antigay case in recent memory, as new details emerged about the gang of nine young men accused of abducting and torturing two 17-year-olds and a 30-year-old gay man known throughout their Bronx neighborhood as “La Reina,” Spanish for “The Queen.”

Two suspects were still being sought and seven others were awaiting arraignment on Saturday, nearly a week after the attacks in an abandoned building in the Morris Heights section. A spokesman for the Bronx district attorney's office said he expected them to be charged with hate crimes in a series of attacks the police said included unlawful imprisonment, beatings that went on for hours and gruesome sexual assaults on two victims with a small baseball bat and the wooden handle of a toilet plunger, as well as cigarette burns on the genitals of the older man.

“These attacks are appalling and are even more despicable because the victims were clearly targeted in acts of hate simply because they are gay,” said Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who is gay. “The cowardly few who committed these crimes do not represent New Yorkers, and our community will not be cowed by such violence.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10bias.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fnyregion%2Findex.jsonp

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Follow-up reporting by the NY Times on the Bronx anti-gay hate crime.

[kestrel91316]

1. I'd call for retaliation if it wouldn't get me banned.

[keepCAblue]

2. You wouldn't be alone. Last night...

...I attended a candlelight vigil for the nine youngsters who took their own lives last month because of bullying and harassment for being gay. Nine young lives in just one month's time.

Now today, less than 24 hours after shedding tears for these kids, I have to see THIS abominable hate crime in the news.

I am so sick of this "open season on gays" mentality that has infected our nation, thanks to the bigotry, hatefulness and provocation brought on by the disgusting likes of all the Maggie Gallaghers and Glenn Becks of this world. I not only want to retaliate against these nine cowardly s.o.bs but also against all the effing conservative homobigots on this planet who are directly responsible for creating this toxic atmosphere of hatred.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. When will we hear from all the anti gay clergy like McClurkin

and others who have churches in that metro area? Hmmmmmmmm?