Looking to start your day with some disgusting news? Well, you’re in luck, because four New York teens have been arrested after attacking a gay youth shelter.
Carmen’s Place, located in Queens, caters specifically to marginalized and alienated and often homeless young queers who have no where else to go. Apparently some of the neighborhood doesn’t approve, because the kids and staff are repeatedly subject to taunts, pushing and the such.
This week’s incident definitely went a bit further, with a gang of four approaching the shelter, which is housed in a church, and attempting to cause some unholy trouble. Director Reverend Louis Braxton Jr. attempted to stop the madness, but got caught in the crossfire…
The priest, the Rev. Louis Braxton Jr., said he was returning to the shelter, Carmen’s Place, on Steinway Street in Astoria, about 10:30 on Monday night when he saw a group of youths hit a resident on the head with a bag of garbage.
Father Braxton, an Episcopal priest who is the shelter’s director, said he shouted at the attackers and they fled. But four youths returned soon after holding a paint bucket, a miter box, steel brackets and a belt. By then other shelter residents had gathered outside, Father Braxton said.
Two residents of Carmen’s Place argued with the four and were punched in the face and body, Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for the Queens district attorney’s office, said.
Father Braxton was treated for minor cuts and bruises at Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, the police said.
All of the suspects are under eighteen and face, among other things, assault charges. See? We told you it was a disgusting story!
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beelzebab
Oh, do we know the racial origin of the attackers?
Shabaka
Don’t you already know, B?
beelzebab
Oooo yes – missed out of the queerty account!
How interesting: “Three of the suspects were identified by the police as Shara Mozie, 17, and Tyreek Childs, 17, both of 24th Street, and Trevaughn Payne, 16, of 34th Avenue, all in Queens.”
Tom
Beelbab, You care less to you show compassion and sympathy for the victims, but instead want to only know the race of the perps. I don’t know what’s worse, your pathetic and morally bankrupt character or your bigotry.
beelzebab
Tom, we have to face up to the fact that the effnik minorites here in Europe and in the US are hysterically anti-gay – not all but a majority.
Indeed as sure as eggs is eggs if I read of an attack on gays here in London it’s invariably by blacks or muslims.
And, to be honest, we’re fucking sick of it. And I am even more sick to fucking death of all the denials by arseholes who make all kinds of excuses for this behaviour- blaming the days of slavery, or colonialism or the fact that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction or their evil religion told them to.
What’s your excuse for all the denials?
CHURCHILL-Y
Thank you Beelzebab, and some people still want to deny the correlation between homophobia and ethnicity which in turn is influenced by culture.
Interesting how Queerty left out the names of the attackers.
But as sure as the Sun and the Moon exists Beelzebab the apologist will either deny the correlation on blame it all on colonialism or poverty. Nothing to do with their culture and the constant examples of homophobic behavior that’s condone routinely in the African American community.
CHURCHILL-Y
And to think some people still refuse to admit how dangerous for GLBT people New York city is becoming in areas populated by certain ethnicities
Funny how non of the attackers were shall we say Greeks. What was once one of the the largest Greek enclaves outside of Athens is quickly disappearing and being over taken by others.
Len
Patterns certainly seem to exist when you look for them.
In my personal experience (I am white, incidentally), most of the news-making (not to mention legislation-writing) gay attacks are by whites.
fri
did any of you racists ever consider what communities the victims were coming from? because chances are they’re the same ethnicity as their attackers. that’s the way things normally work. i’ve been subjected to harassment, threats, and violence from homophobes before, and in every case it was from other white people. yes, there’s homophobia in communities of color (as there is in white communities), but by and large I’M not the one being subjected to it! every person to ever call me a faggot has been WHITE!
of course there’s exceptions, but it’s important to note that this also includes whites committing hate crimes against both queer and non-queer people of color, which i’m sure you’ll convienently ignore. so fuck off!
Tom
I obviously do not condone violence against anyone, in particular my gay brother and sisters. But your over simplified comments about blacks and other ethnicities makes you no different than homophobes who use violence to intimidate others. In fact, you are much worse because you wrap your hate speech under the false pretention that you are defending gays.
Instead of coming on here and bitching and moaning about the problem, why don’t you get off youur ass and do something constructive? But peace and reconciliation is not what you want. You are simply looking for a medium to display your own inadequacies, mental illness and bigotry.
Finally, if you don’t like it, why don’t you just pack all your Nazi and KKK paraphernalia and move to another country?
beelzebab
Tom, why the fuck should I leave my own country, england?????
do, tell me.
You say: “Instead of coming on here and bitching and moaning about the problem, why don’t you get off youur ass and do something constructive? But peace and reconciliation is not what you want.”
Well, what do you suggest I do about it? Join a fascist party which advocates that they all be deported??? What I want is for blacks and muslims to stop attacking gays, to stop being hysterically anti-gay and for them to lighten up in their venemous attitudes towards me and my kind.
recently a school in Bristol was forced to abandon it’s pro-gay anti-bullying campaign because muslim parents created such a fuss.
People like you are like brainwashers, trying to bully us and convince us all that there is no problem with violence directed towards gays from effniks
What is your solution, apart from some nebulous bollocks about being nice to one another? That would be great, but the niceness isn’t returned, is it?
ChristopherM
Beel and Church are the perfect example of white gays who are so insecure about being shit on because they are gay that they have to try and feel superior to someone else. They are the perfect example of white gays who are so fearful of violence that they try to explain it in the most simplistic terms without any in-depth examination of the truth. They are the perfect example of those who think their whiteness will protect them from marginalization. They are the perfect example of a whole lot of wrong.
RPCV
More trouble my blacks. Perhaps the attackers wanted to “cut off the nuts” of one of the residents, a la Jesse with Barack Hussein!!
Also, how ironic that the Priest was taken to a hospital in Queens!! LOL
Oh, and Tom, you’re clueless…..
Tom
Whether I am clueless is a difference of opinion, but your dementia and rotten soul is obvious and beyond dispute.
MJ
I disagree with a lot of what the “racist” guys in these threads say, but they do have a point about the way left-wing fibber Hauslaib presents these stories. He left out the obviously African-American names of those arrested, but when the Duke lacrosse guys (who did nothing) were accused he plastered their names and faces all over. (I wonder if Hauslaib will be showing up in protest at the August reggae homophobe march in Brooklyn- lol). I say this not to criticize black folk directly, but to show how dishonest politically-correct reporting gets us nowhere. Stop pretending, Hauslaib! Report accurately. (P.S.- David Evans now lives in Manhattan- with his deserved wealth from the lawsuit- and takes the subway to work).
MJ
P.S.- That shelter sounds like a good cause. It probably offers alternatives to those who would otherwise fall into dangerous prostitution.
MJ
And ChristopherM, YOU shouldn’t be criticizing anyone if you’re friends with that GayProf comic book doofus. Referring to the Duke case, again: Gay Prof was all over the place saying the guys were guilty and how it represented “racism, sexism, colonialism, homophobia, misogyny…blah blah…” (all the b.s. these academics play around with), and then when the guys turned out innocent GayProf skulked away and hid from the story. So don’t go knocking other guys if you’re buds with that racist weasel.
GayProf
I never wrote or posted about the Duke Case on my or any other blog. Such accusations, without evidence, kinda make you look hypocritical.