Really?! Really?!

Beating of a gay man a possible hate crime.

(New York) New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime.

Price remains in a medically induced coma. He is in serious but stable condition.

Police say the two suspects taunted Price and yelled anti-gay slurs while he was in the store early Friday. They attacked him outside, not far from his home in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of College Point.

Twenty-six-year-old Daniel Aleman was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime. The name of his attorney was not on record.

A second suspect is being sought. The police department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.

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Seriously, people?! What in the hell is it going to take for people to open their eyes? They say we don't need specific laws to protect us. That's like saying black people didn't need specific laws to protect them from being lynched. It's absurb. Gay people are the victims of harassment, verbal AND physical, every single day. How could they possibly say this wasn't a hate crime? Do they randomly go around people straight people up yelling "faggot"? To say I'm angry is an understatement. I'm furious.

Wake up, people. Wake the hell up. This is why we need equal rights. One of the speakers at the National Equality March said that our not having equal rights makes us a target, that is sends the message that we are less than whole people and should be targets for victimization.

This solidifies it.