Posted on
Advocate.com October 30, 2010
Wig Snatching Hate Crime in Fargo
By
Advocate.com Editors
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/30/Drag_Performer_Attacked_in_Fargo/A popular Fargo, North Dakota drag performer was standing outside a bar last weekend when a man yanked the wig off his head, called him and antigay slur and took off running down the street.
JustNtyme, who asked to be identified by his stage name to avoid further harassment in an interview with Fargo-Moorhead's news website In Forum, told police he was standing outside Dempsey's Irish Pub when a man in a black hoodie ran by, snatched the $150, custom-made wig off his head, yelled "->-bleeped-<-got," and took off.
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Published October 30 2010
Fargo performer victim of hate crime
JustNtyme called gay slur, had wig ripped off head
By: Tammy Swift, INFORUM
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/296541/group/News/The incident brought drag performer JustNtyme back to his school years.
When a man ripped the wig off his head and yelled a gay slur at him outside a downtown Fargo bar last weekend, the popular female impersonator said it reminded him of being bullied and beaten up while growing up in Fargo.
Back then, he said, "I didn't even know I was gay. I couldn't understand why everyone called me '->-bleeped-<-got.' I would think, 'What do they see that I don't see?' I took it as a kid, but I refuse to do that again."
