Well our weekend in Chi-town was really good and really bad...
On Friday night we witnessed gang gunplay, complete with an SUV battering it's way through a Caddie.
This was on the corner of North Milwaukee and Western.
On Saturday I was assulted on our way out to Le Passage. (I'm fine, I got worse injuries from the 13 year-olds I used to work with in Social Work.)
Two guys ran across two busy streets to come up and throw a drink at my head. When they missed, the one guy (who was smaller than me) came up and kicked me and yelled "fucking faggot" The other guy was about 6'3" and a skinhead (black boots - white laces) he looked like he was going to come in swinging, but didn't. Jojo ran to Red Dog (where he works) They got confused on who to follow, so they backed off.
It could have been a lot worse, but we got lucky. We did get Police assistance, and a report was filed, but they didn't catch the guys.
I wanted people to know to keep their eyes open. The cops said that it was really rare in that neighborhood and it really surprised them. Wicker Park is generally gay/freak friendly, but I guess that also attracts the bashers.
This is the third incident for us in the last month. Some of you know that we had bottles thown at us twice (on the corner of 14th and 8th no less) while up in NYC. (Once we were dressed and once we weren't.)
I guess I'm just posting this to remind people that as far as things have come, there are still too many assholes in the world.
XXXOOO
Satori