Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Gay Man Beaten Unconscious by Nightclub Bouncers
metroweekly.comKRIV that he and some friends were attending an LGBTQ-themed event featuring drag performances on the night in question.Houston-Pickett claims he and his friends were told they’d have to wait before leaving the club.While in that holding pattern, he grabbed a bottle of alcohol from the bar and jokingly said he needed a drink for the wait.
He then put the bottle down and never took a drink from it.A short while later, however, a large, well-built man who appeared to be working security at the bar approached him.“I saw an African American male…really buff with long hair coming at me with two other guys,” Houston-Pickett told KRIV. “The only thing I remember, the words he said were ‘you said something to my sister?’, then he hit me and that’s all I remember.”Houston-Pickett maintains he was not aggressive or confrontational with the bouncers, and did nothing to provoke them. “[T]hey came charging with an agenda,” he said.Video of the altercation that later went viral on social media shows a security guard holding Houston-Pickett in a chokehold from behind, while another guard knocks him unconscious with a single blow.That guard then punches Houston-Pickett at least 10 more times.
The DJ can be heard at the end of the video asking what is happening and urging the security guards to “chill.”Houston-Pickett suffered black and bloodied eyes, a concussion, and a broken leg following the incident.“This is what happens when you take a franchise restaurant and turn it to a nite club and after hours and then hire homophobic security officers,” Houston-Pickett wrote in a Facebook post after being treated for his injuries. “You get jumped for no reason by the people supposedly hired to protect you.”He added that similar incidents are.
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