UPDATE: Man Wearing KKK Costume Charged for Beating Drag Queen on Halloween
Monday, 17 December 2012 14:49 Written by Ryan Dixon
http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/news/local-news/8350-update-man-wearing-kkk-costume-charged-for-beating-drag-queen-in-halloween.htmlA man dressed in a Ku Klux Klan costume during a Halloween party in Wilton Manors has been charged for attacking a drag queen outside a restaurant, police said.
The Broward County State Attorney's office charged Boyd Corbin, 44, with assault with a deadly weapon and battery, both third degree felonies.
Michael Walters, a Dame Edna impersonator, claimed Corbin attacked him with a burning torch during a Halloween costume contest last October at Alibi, a gay bar and restaurant.
Boyd Corbin in his controversial Ku Klux Klan costume. (Photo: Stephen R. Lang, Jump On Mark's List)
"I was onstage and it happened so fast. He was behind me and I kept seeing out of my peripheral vision a burning torch," Walters told SFGN in a previous interview.
Corbin was photographed that night (Oct. 31) by several people carrying a wooden cross and a lit garden torch — and dressed as a Klansmen.
