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On Mar 22, 2:17 pm, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > LGBT activists march, take a stand against hate crime violence in > Washington D.C. > > Following three separate attacks against the LGBT community in > Washington D.C. earlier this month, nearly 700 people gathered to > demand justice in a march Tuesday, the Washington Blade is reporting. > The outpour of support included city officials Police Chief Cathy > Lanier and four member of the Washington D.C. City Council. > > The rally, which was organized on Facebook, comes in wake of a Mar. 12 > attack of a 29-year-old gay man who was robbed and beaten near Georgia > Avenue and Irving Street NW. His assailants called him anti-gay slurs > and fled the scene according to Patrick Pressman, an organizer of the > rally. > > “It was a Facebook event and I expected maybe 15 to 50 people to show > up,” said Pressman. “And then from there it just exploded,” he said. > “It got to where it was today, when it was estimated that about 700 > people were going to attend.” > > The rally also supported another attack labeled as a hate crime that > occurred on Mar. 11 as a non-life threatening shooting was reported at > a nearby IHOP restaurant. Police say a 31-year-old gay man got into an > altercation with two men who called him anti-gay names. Police Chief > Lanier said she expects an arrest in the shooting as she spoke to > marchers who were gathered outside the restaurant. > > “We have everybody working on this and I think everybody’s committed,” > she said. “We kind of take it personally when people in our community > are targeted.” > > On the same night of the IHOP shooting, another attack against a > transgender woman occurred just hours later at the nearby intersection > of West Virginia Avenue and Mt. Olivet Road NE. Due to insufficient > evidence, however, the attack against the transgender woman has not > been classified a hate crime. > > “I want to say that this walk should never have to happen again in our > city,” said D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown (D-At-Large). “We have to > do more. We must do more,” he said. “And for those who know about this > horrific situation that took place, I’m begging you to come forth. > Give us information … to bring these folks to justice.” > > Other rally attendees included gay D.C. city council member Jim Graham > (D-Ward 1), Michael Brown (D-At-large), Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), > Jeffrey Richardson, director of Mayor Vincent Gray’s Office of LGBT > Affairs, Gustavo Velasquez, director of the D.C. Office of Human > Rights, and A.J. Singletary, president of the D.C. group Gays and > Lesbian Opposing Violence (GLOV), including many other LGBT activists > and allies. > > More:http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/03/21/lgbt-activists-take-a-stand-against-... > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
