Flurry of assaults on gays nationwide
”People who he was friends with, I knew that they knew. He didn’t care that they knew. He trusted them.”
Kaether Cordero commenting on the death of his partner, August Provost, a soldier at Camp Pendleton. It is suspected that Provost may have been murdered during an argument over his sexual orientaion. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
”They were assuming their pictures were being taken and a verbal argument started…. The [victim’s] partner said they were taking pictures of their dog. It was frolicking in the yard.”
Det. Sgt. Reecks of the Suffolk County police in New York who reports that 3 people were arrested for beating a woman while shouting anti-gay epithets at her including, “Fucking tear that fucking queer’s face off!” The victim was reportedly treated for minor injuries which police have said do not rise to the level of a hate crime. (27 East)
”They were calling me faggot and started to beat me. They beat me very hard, and unconscious.”
Joseph Holladay who was found by his partner in a pool of blood after he was robbed and attacked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side by a group of youths. Holladay now suffers from a large gash on his forehead where he was hit with a gun. (WCBS 2)
“He had me in a head lock and I was kind of flailing. I’m a pacifist through and through, but this dude just attacked me.”
Kendra Konrady, an HRC volunteer who was assaulted at the Omaha Pride Parade by a 66-year-old man, William Crilly, who was quoting bible scripture as he hauled around a rainbow-colored wagon at the event. A sign atop the wagon read in part, ”For the wages of sin is death.” (The Pitch, Kansas City)
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