Blame the Gays...
Interesting bit of news I read today in the New York times. Apparently, the four youths indicted in the gay-bashing attack on Kevin Aviance are saying that the drag performer provoked them when he called one of them a "sweetie". The suspects claim that they were talking amongst themselves in the East Village early on June 10th when Aviance bumped into one of them and said "Calm down, sweetie." They claim that this attack was nothing to do with Kevin Aviance's sexual orientation but rather the feeling that they were "dissed".
"I did not hit the guy because he was gay," Gerald Johnson said in his statement to police. "I just did not want my friends to think...I was a pussy."
So it was the flight or fight response. He felt threatened by the homo, and apparently his image in front of his friends was put to the test by the alleged comments. So in order to prove his manhood he felt it was ok to spur the attack that put Kevin Aviance in the hospital with a broken jaw. Wouldn't those actions alone, the fear and loathing behind the beating, constitute a gay bashing? Instead, the snippy comment by a gay man (and we have all made those snippy comments) is being put on trial here. In print, it is as if the press is ok'ing the atrocity behind the action by insinuating that it was Kevin's fault that he opened his mouth and the purse flew out of his mouth and smacked those kids in the face. What if it was a straight man? A metrosexual as a matter of fact. Should that man be afraid of making a snippy comment at a bunch of kids and then perceived as a homo? Or a butch lesbian? What if she just rolled her eyes at the kids when she accidently bumped into them. Wouldn't that be considered a "diss"? So it was a gang thing then? Really? In the East Village, cummon!
So, Kevin of course calls the alligations a lie and added the brutal attack on him was "unprovoked". Thank you the New York Times, Daily News, and the Post for belittling the situation and putting Kevin on trial here. Thank you for dismissing the actions as gang related or flight/fight response by 4 kids. Thank you for taking the importance of the lesson, the march and our whole existance and kicking it to the curb. You are just as bad as the President of America. America, where apparently being a second class citizen is not enough. We will be degraded and spit on until its the 3rd class citizenship that is labeled to us. Yea!! I look forward to that ride, don't you??
"I did not hit the guy because he was gay," Gerald Johnson said in his statement to police. "I just did not want my friends to think...I was a pussy."
So it was the flight or fight response. He felt threatened by the homo, and apparently his image in front of his friends was put to the test by the alleged comments. So in order to prove his manhood he felt it was ok to spur the attack that put Kevin Aviance in the hospital with a broken jaw. Wouldn't those actions alone, the fear and loathing behind the beating, constitute a gay bashing? Instead, the snippy comment by a gay man (and we have all made those snippy comments) is being put on trial here. In print, it is as if the press is ok'ing the atrocity behind the action by insinuating that it was Kevin's fault that he opened his mouth and the purse flew out of his mouth and smacked those kids in the face. What if it was a straight man? A metrosexual as a matter of fact. Should that man be afraid of making a snippy comment at a bunch of kids and then perceived as a homo? Or a butch lesbian? What if she just rolled her eyes at the kids when she accidently bumped into them. Wouldn't that be considered a "diss"? So it was a gang thing then? Really? In the East Village, cummon!
So, Kevin of course calls the alligations a lie and added the brutal attack on him was "unprovoked". Thank you the New York Times, Daily News, and the Post for belittling the situation and putting Kevin on trial here. Thank you for dismissing the actions as gang related or flight/fight response by 4 kids. Thank you for taking the importance of the lesson, the march and our whole existance and kicking it to the curb. You are just as bad as the President of America. America, where apparently being a second class citizen is not enough. We will be degraded and spit on until its the 3rd class citizenship that is labeled to us. Yea!! I look forward to that ride, don't you??
posted by Joshua-Myles at 3:23 PM
3 Comments:
Even if those allegations were completely true, it should be no excuse... there's something seriously wrong with someone who thinks that it would be an appropriate response to deliver a crippling beating to a man for calling you "sweetie."
This kind of mindless, macho, destructive attitude is the enemy here in either case—I wish the news outlets could keep that in mind.
Tell me about it!
"I did not hit the guy because he was gay," Gerald Johnson said in his statement to police. "I just did not want my friends to think...I was a pussy." So apparently that was good enough reason to beat the living shit out of someone.
Post a Comment
<< Home