QuoteSmith-Malave, who was featured on Season 2 of the Bravo channel show and had been on Long Island to attend a friend's birthday party, suffered bruises, her lawyer said. Her sister, who is heterosexual, also was beaten, and another woman hurt her head.
http://planetout.com/news/article.html?2007/09/14/2Yet again, another example of someone being beaten because they were with someone perceived to be queer ~ her sister who is str8 also received the same abuse.
But the police didn't get involved until they had to investigate the theft of her camcorder during the incident. Otherwise, they would have looked the other way.
That homeless kid is representative of a small but dangerous group in PDX ~ homophobic, transphobic, racist youths that advocate for white supremacy and violence against anyone different.
