The staff and patrons of Zig's, Sudbury's only gay and lesbian bar, are used to the insults and name-calling.
It's rare, however, that the homophobia turns violent, but that's what happened last Friday night to a young Sudbury man. Brent Jason, 26, says he suffered three fractures to his left cheekbone when he was confronted by a group of passersby outside the Elgin Street bar. Jason was at Zig's bar - where he regularly works as a casual dancer - at 11:30 p.m. with three of his friends when a passerby made a comment about one of his friends.
The comments, Jason says, were about his female friend's physical appearance and were followed by a homophobic comment about how they should "steal" her from her boyfriend, who was also among Jason's group.
After the brief altercation, the passersby started to leave, but a man from the group looked back to see Jason looking at them, turned around and came back.
"They started walking away and I sort of took a few steps in their direction, just watching them and glaring at them," Jason says. "Then one of them came back towards me and said, 'what are you looking at, goof?' and I was like, 'oh God, nothing, so just keep going.' " (keep reading)
It's rare, however, that the homophobia turns violent, but that's what happened last Friday night to a young Sudbury man. Brent Jason, 26, says he suffered three fractures to his left cheekbone when he was confronted by a group of passersby outside the Elgin Street bar. Jason was at Zig's bar - where he regularly works as a casual dancer - at 11:30 p.m. with three of his friends when a passerby made a comment about one of his friends.
The comments, Jason says, were about his female friend's physical appearance and were followed by a homophobic comment about how they should "steal" her from her boyfriend, who was also among Jason's group.
After the brief altercation, the passersby started to leave, but a man from the group looked back to see Jason looking at them, turned around and came back.
"They started walking away and I sort of took a few steps in their direction, just watching them and glaring at them," Jason says. "Then one of them came back towards me and said, 'what are you looking at, goof?' and I was like, 'oh God, nothing, so just keep going.' " (keep reading)
1 comment:
...its sounds more like an altercation between some people that may or may not have ended up as a 'gay' bashing. The newspaper wrote the piece like it was a script from a Valley Girls novel..."and then he was like, and then I was like..". That is some really bad jounralism there, leaving the reader to wonder...what the hell did happen there!
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