Diaz still defiant

Gay-flap pol rips fellow Council members on Amazon

He's at it again.

Embattled Bronx Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. took another swipe at New York's gay community Thursday, blaming two prominent gay leaders for imploding the Amazon deal.

Diaz, already on the hot seat for saying City Hall was “controlled by the homosexual community,” followed up the face slap with a head-turning tweet casting Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer as the bad guys.

“Amazon's HQ2 leaving is another case of the abuse of power from some City Council Members,” Diaz (right) tweeted. “This is all because of @JimmyVanBramer. He organized folks to push back on Amazon and even got @NYCSpeakerCoJo to fight back as well. Now 25k jobs are gone and won't be filled by New Yorkers thanks to the NYC Council and its Speaker. This is another indication proving what I have been saying is correct.”

Diaz's tweet came hours after he rallied with Bronx supporters upset over the Council's decision to dissolve the Committee on ForHire that Diaz had steered amid the growth of Uber and Lyft across the five boroughs.

But Diaz refused to yield, holding his ground with supporters outside his district office in Unionport, where the crowd ripped his critics in two languages.

Diaz said the Council's bid to hurt him is only hurting the taxi industry.

“Thanks to those who took the recording and gave it to NY1, thinking they were going to hurt me but they are hurting the cab drivers,” Diaz said. “Corey Johnson, if the committee has functioned, has done good, if the committee has done things that have never been done before, that they have worked to reduce the fines, why destroy the committee?

“If I am the cause of your pain, why not take the chairmanship away from me and leave the committee alone?” he added.

Diaz, an ordained minister, spoke to a crowd of about 100 supporters, including taxi drivers, conservatives and clergy members.

He has resisted public pressure to resign over the remarks.

Diaz was joined by a nephew and a granddaughter, whom he said are both gay.

Cab driver Ismidro Marte, 62, of the Bronx, says he came out to support his council member and thinks he has said nothing wrong.

“They've been harassing him,” he said in Spanish. “We feel he's being persecuted. As a taxi driver, he's been our greatest defender and we want to support him because they want to make him resign.”