Irish man gay-bashed in Queens, New York

Talach also needs a reality check,and not be in denial.If those brothers were truly his "extended family" they would have helped him.

Why didn't the brothers of Talach's partner jump in? It is pretty obvious that they don't accept him. I agree with MCNabb1966 that the attack was racist as well as homophobic.

I disagree with Talach being glad the brothers didn't start fighting. The brothers could have done something besides video taping the beating. This Irish lad agrees with Malcolm X: I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

The best revenge now will be seeing these two cowards prosecuted by New York City under the new homophobic hate crimes law that recently was signed by President Obama.

Well if the lawsuit doesn't work out maybe 'Rebelforce' and 'McNabb1966' will go down there Tarlach with you and mebbe all three of you could duff the guy up by way of revenge lol.

Oh, it was a hate crime all right, but not necessarily just against a gay man. According to this article, there were TWO gay men dancing together, one an Irish guy and the other a Mexican guy - and yet only the guy who WASN'T Mexican got attacked and beaten. Hmm... And why didn't the partner or his brothers jump in and defend MacNiallais? Sounds to me like the attack was both homophobic and racial. Either way it was a hate crime and should be prosecuted vigorously as such. And I agree with Rebelforce that Mr. MacNiallais needs to sue the club owners and the suspects for everything they've got.

I hope Tarlach sues the bastards responsible for this homophobic attack. There should be zero tolerance for hate crimes here or anywhere else.