About 150 people gathered outside a Lawrence bar early Friday to speak out against the beating of a gay man there one week earlier.

Jeffrey Medis, 28, was severely beaten after leaving the Replay Lounge, 946 Mass., around 1:45 a.m. Dec. 6. He suffered fractured upper and lower jaws, a broken nose, fractured eye socket, concussion, two teeth knocked out and a gash on his chin that took six stitches to close.

Medis has said he thought he was beaten because he is gay. Police have not made any arrests in the case.

Those who attended the candlelight vigil outside the Replay Friday spoke out against hate crimes and urged police to find the attackers.

Ailecia Ruscin, a Kansas University student who organized the vigil, said the turnout far exceeded her expectations.

“Our goal was to give people an opportunity to process their feelings about what happened to Jeffrey,” she said. “We want the perpetrators accounted for.”

Andy Smith, a Free State Brewery bartender and local musician, said he came to help prove the beating wasn’t a fair representation of Lawrence.

“Lawrence is a utopia, and we don’t want this here, he said. “Sexuality – it’s what you do in your own home. For this to happen disgusts me.”

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