Hundreds march in support for Jack Price, an openly gay man from Queens, New York who was brutally beaten by two men.

Gay City News reports:
The Queens LGBT community was joined by activists from across the city, allies from the political world, and neighborhood residents for a march through quiet College Point on Saturday afternoon, October 17, to show solidarity with Jack Price, a 49-year old gay man savagely beaten October 8 to within an inch of his life. Two young men from his neighborhood are charged in the assault, captured on a surveillance video.

The alleged assailants are in custody and the victim has come out of a medically-induced coma and spoken about the assault. And while a few in the neighborhood are protesting the designation of the attack as a hate crime, others are saying that the defense being mounted by friends of the alleged perpetrators is a fabrication.

“Justice for Jack Price!,” shouted longtime Queens gay activist Daniel Dromm through a megaphone as he led yet another march against an alleged hate crime — in 1990, in a galvanizing moment for the borough’s LGBT movement, community members marched to protest the murder of Julio Rivera in an anti-gay attack in Jackson Heights. In September, Dromm won the Democratic nomination for City Council from the Jackson Heights district, a victory tantamount to election.

As 300 proceeded down the boulevard past the site of the attack, Millie Franco and other staff from a beauty shop applauded them and condemned the alleged perpetrators. “It was disgusting,” she said. “These two punks, two against one. Let’s see how tough they are behind bars.” READ MORE