The Village Voice is reporting that one of their former employees, Joe Holladay, who was in town on business, was attacked and beaten early Saturday morning by a group of men who called him “faggot:”
Holladay tells us that he walked out of John Jerome’s apartment on East 85th Street between York and East End Avenues, where he’d been staying, at about 4 a.m. to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk, and five or six young men swarmed him.
“It’s very blurry,” he says, “But yeah, they said ‘faggot.’ And the next thing I know I’m in the hospital.”
Jerome, an acting coach, heard the fracas and came downstairs to find his friend “in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. He wasn’t moving.”
Holladay says his doctor told him his injuries suggest he was hit with a blunt object. “The mark on my forehead looks like it was made by the base of a gun,” he says.
Holladay has since been released from the hospital, and is convalescing at Jerome’s. The NYPD is investigating the attack.
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