{"id":6161,"date":"2010-10-05T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2010-10-05T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:39:16","slug":"get_your_history_straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/10\/get_your_history_straight.html","title":{"rendered":"Get Your History Straight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, people really have no idea where they are, what they&#8217;re seeing or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/10\/2_staten_islanders_face_hate-c.html\">who they&#8217;re urinating next to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Get away from me, f&#8212;. I don&#8217;t like gay people,&#8221; Matthew Francis, 21, of Holgate Street in Willowbrook, is accused of telling his alleged 34-year-old victim, just before he and Christopher Orlando, 17, of the 400-block of Doane Avenue in Great Kills, attacked the man.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation happened at about 1:55 a.m. in the Christopher Street bar.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that the victim was at a urinal, when one of the men asked if he was &#8220;gay.&#8221; He laughed and responded that they were in the Stonewall, a gay bar.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if either Francis or Orlando knew the history of the Stonewall, or if they were in a gay bar.<\/p>\n<p>Francis responded with the &#8220;get away from me,&#8221; remark, prosecutors allege, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want you (urinating) next to me&#8230;. Give me a dollar. Give me a 20.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not just idiocy &#8212; romantic comedy levels of idiocy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, people really have no idea where they are, what they&#8217;re seeing or who they&#8217;re urinating next to: &#8220;Get away from me, f&#8212;. I don&#8217;t like gay people,&#8221; Matthew Francis, 21, of Holgate Street in Willowbrook, is accused of telling his alleged 34-year-old victim, just before he and Christopher Orlando, 17, of the 400-block of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-jerk_move","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}