On Oct. 23 around 6:30 p.m., Sven Koppany and Michael Fay, recent transplants to Southie living near the intersection of E Street and Broadway, were enjoying the unseasonably warm weather and preparing to give their first floor condo a thorough cleaning when they suddenly heard someone pounding on the metal security bars on their windows. They turned toward the windows and saw a group of three young people in their late teens, two men and one woman, going from window to window and banging their fists against the bars. Koppany told Bay Windows the teens shouted at the men to let them into the condo so they could look around. The couple said no.
"And then they got really mad. And the first thing that came out of their mouth was, ’Fuck you, faggot,’" said Koppany.
He said the teens continued shouting obscenities and anti-gay slurs at them and spat at them through the bars. Eventually the obscenities turned to threats.
Koppany said that he and his partner hoped the police would intervene and ensure that the couple would be safe if the teens kept their word and returned to attack them later that evening. But it took three calls to 911 before the men finally received a response from police. Around 11 p.m., more than four hours after their first 911 call, an officer phoned and asked for details of the incident. Koppany said he wondered if the slow response by police was motivated, in part, by homophobia.
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