Join the family of Jack Price, Speaker Christine Quinn, Queens residents and Community Organizations to Protest Hate Crimes in Queens

WHAT:  March and rally against hate crimes in Queens

WHEN:  Saturday, October 17. The march will step off at 2:00 PM.

WHERE:  College Point Boulevard & 20th Avenue, College Point, Queens.  March to 14th Avenue & rally at Popenhusen Playground. 

DIRECTIONS: Take the 7 train to Main Street and then the Q65 bus from Roosevelt and Main Street to 20th Ave.

In response to the violent beating of openly gay 49-year old Jack Price by two men in the College Point neighborhood of Queens early Friday, October 9, a coalition of Queens residents and community organizations are holding a march and rally on Saturday, October 17 with the community of College Point to send a strong message that bias-based crimes crimes cannot be tolerated. 

This recent crime in Queens follows two attacks on transgender residents this summer in the same borough.  These crimes demonstrate the need to enforce the legal protections that lesbian and gay New Yorkers have under state law and to expand the law to explicitly include transgender New Yorkers. 

In addition to engaging in strong community education efforts to combat hate crimes, Speaker Christine Quinn says, “Pending state and federal legislation must be passed immediately. The New York State Senate must pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA). This bill, if passed, will expand New York State's hate crimes law to include attacks based on gender identity or expression. And in Washington, D.C., the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is on the verge of being passed by the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Obama.”

We couldn’t agree with her more. Help show community vigilance in combating hate-based crimes in New York City by marching at 2 PM on Saturday.