“We decided to download it ourselves and put it on our own platforms, so no one would be giving him any attention but we could still get it out there and hopefully find his face,” he added. The user’s channel doesn’t use a real name and its other videos are of self-created rap songs. Albatross’ staff only learned of the incident after the video was posted. The caption of the Youtube video reads “stupid kid spit on LGBTQ flag and get chased by transgenders,” but no one is shown in the video chasing him. “The way it was posted, it almost seemed like they were trying to attract attention, they wanted the attention, they wanted this to come out and get a lot of hits and a lot of negativity towards their page,” the bar’s owner said. He downloaded the video, rather than posting it directly from Youtube so the spitter wouldn’t get any views. He said he initially thought to ignore it, but after thinking on it, he decided to post it to try to find the suspect.
The owner of Albatross Bar, located at 36-19 24th Ave., said he received a copy of the video via e-mail Monday night, shortly after it was posted to YouTube.
The man in the video who spat on a LGBTQ pride flag outside Albatross BarĪ man spat on a gay pride flag hanging outside of Queen’s oldest LGBTQ bar and recorded a video of it which he posted online Monday - and now the bar’s owner and staff are asking the public for help identifying him.