Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen

[PalJoey]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#1

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:36pm

Sending good thoughts to EugLov, who has not posted here in a while, but is, I'm sure, in all of our thoughts.
TOWLEROAD: GAY MAN BEATEN IN HATE CRIME ASSAULT IN NYC'S HELL'S KITCHEN

[AC126748]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#2

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:39pm

My heart just sank. Wishing Eugene a speedy recovery and saddened by these awful expressions of hate.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#2

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:43pm

When these things are happening in my neighborhood, in one of the gayest neighborhoods in the country, I WANT TO PUNCH THE F*CKING WALL.

[AC126748]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#3

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:48pm

I feel the same way, Jordan. I live in HK too. I'm posting an article from Buzzfeed I read the other day that is proving sadly true: there is no safe city for queer people.
There is no such thing as a safe city for queer people

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[FindingNamo]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#4

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:57pm

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[Kad]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#5

Posted: 5/26/13 at 7:58pm

Jesus, I saw him last week speak at the vigil for Mark Carson.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[JbaraFan1]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#6

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:00pm

Sending good thoughts Eugene's way. I don't know him apart from the board here, but he always struck me as a stand up guy. I'm glad that he's, from the sounds of it, physically okay and also glad that he called police after the attack.

From NY1...
A Manhattan teenager is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly struck a local gay activist by a Hell's Kitchen nightclub early Saturday morning.

Manuel Riquelme, 19, is charged with hate crime and aggravated harassment after allegedly hitting Eugene Lovendusky, 28, a Queens resident and co-founder of Queer Rising, an LGBT rights and advocacy group.

Police say the alleged assault took place at 3 a.m. Saturday on West 42nd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

At the time, authorities say Lovendusky and his boyfriend and another friend were leaving the XL nightclub and walking towards a nearby subway stop.

Police say a group of nine teenagers, including Riquelme, passed the three men and started calling them anti-gay slurs.

Riquelme allegedly slapped Lovendusky in the face and knocked off the victim's glasses, according to police.

After the alleged incident, Lovendusky called police and officers found the teens in a pizzeria at West 40th Street and Ninth Avenue.

Lovendusky did not seek medical attention.

The incident is being investigated as a bias assault, according to police.

None of the other teenagers who accompanied Riquelme are facing charges, according to police.
Full news report here

[Patronus]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#7

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:10pm

While I've been fairly vocal in the past about not being the biggest EugLoven fan this is absolutely horrible and I hate that anyone has to go through this type of thing.

Best wishes, Eugene.

[BWFan101]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#8

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:17pm

This makes me sick! WTF?

Common sense? What's common about it? No one has common sense. It should be called rare sense.

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#9

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:23pm

I hope that kid gets the chair. And only for the fact that slapping someone you think is gay across the face is the gayest hate crime I can think of. And this was on my street. Eugene should have yelled out for me and I would have come down and helped beat that kids ass.

[JbaraFan1]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#10

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:33pm

It's horrible either way but I admit I'm a bit confused as to the details, Towleroad vs NY1 reports. Hoping the NY1 story is the more accurate one since it said Eugene didn't seek medical help. When I read the Towleroad story I was fulling expecting him to be hospitalized. Again, it's still horrible and totally sucks, and this crap has got to stop. New York! Of all the places!

[Borstalboy]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#11

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:38pm

It was done in a group, of course. How manly.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[supportivemom]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#12

Posted: 5/26/13 at 8:53pm

Wow! So sorry to read this. I have always enjoyed his posts and I hope he is okay. Wow! Just Wow!

[SNAFU]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#13

Posted: 5/26/13 at 9:04pm

This is like a punch i the stomach, I have never met him in person but have done some editing for him in the past. Get well soon Eugene!

edited due my fricken N key not working.

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

Updated On: 5/26/13 at 09:04 PM

[After Eight]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#14

Posted: 5/26/13 at 9:06pm

This is horrible.

Sending best wishes to a man of principle and courage.

[clever name]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#15

Posted: 5/26/13 at 10:36pm

This is awful. What is wrong with people?!
All my good thoughts his way.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#16

Posted: 5/26/13 at 10:40pm

I hope he's okay.

It's time for gay folks to start patrols in their neighborhoods and they need to start beating back, twice as hard.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[broadwaydevil]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#17

Posted: 5/27/13 at 1:22am

This is absurd. My thoughts are with Eugene, who I don't know personally, but just the idea that this is happening in what are supposedly among the most "gay friendly" neighborhoods in the world makes me sick.

That Buzzfeed article is very on point.

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[Bettyboy72]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#18

Posted: 5/27/13 at 1:36am

Sending Eugene lots of love. This is terrifying and unacceptable. What the hell is going on?

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Eris0303]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#19

Posted: 5/27/13 at 1:47am

I hate that this is happening. I need to ask a question and it's an honest one.

Is this happening more often or does it just appear that way because it's being reported more?

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

[ljay889]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#20

Posted: 5/27/13 at 2:05am

This is crazy. Just saw him on the news recently speaking out about the recent hate crimes.

I hope he is doing ok.

[dramamama611]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#21

Posted: 5/27/13 at 6:20am

From the sound of it (a smack that knocked his glasses off) I'm sure any recuperating is more emotional than physical - which in many ways is worse.

Oh, my city - what the hell is happening to you????

Eug -- my thoughts are with you.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#22

Posted: 5/27/13 at 8:23am

"Is this happening more often or does it just appear that way because it's being reported more?"

I think it's a mix of the two, personally.

[best12bars]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#23

Posted: 5/27/13 at 8:39am

Horrible news. Makes me sad and angry. Thinking of you, Eugene.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Unknown User]

Longtime BWW Poster Gay-Bashed in Hell's Kitchen#24

Posted: 5/27/13 at 1:33pm

Eug I sincerely hope this experience just makes you feistier than ever!