Something all couples do… kiss. And it started a fight over the kiss. Bigots started a fight over it.
Gay man allegedly beaten by Shake Shack employees after kissing his boyfriendAs politicians stir up animosity toward us I’m worried that this is just the beginning.
Video captured the shocking attack, showing men stomping and kicking the man as he curls into the fetal position.
LGBTQ Nation
By Elsie Carson-Holt
August 19, 2024
A gay man in Washington, D.C. was allegedly beat up by a group of Shake Shack employees in Dupont Circle after he kissed his boyfriend while waiting for their food.
The incident, which occurred on Saturday, happened after D.C. resident Christian Dingus, 28, tried to de-escalate a confrontation between an employee, who had told his boyfriend and him not to kiss, and his boyfriend, who was upset by the comment.
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Dingus’ boyfriend said that the pair had done nothing wrong, at which point the two men were escorted outside. Dingus and his boyfriend argued with the employees, when Dingus told an employee not to speak to his boyfriend disrespectfully, the Shake Shack employees allegedly started attacking him.
“And then one of the men, pretty forcefully, like, pushed me out of the way on my shoulder,” he described the incident. “And then, you know, next thing I know, that kind of just, I think, sparked the rest of them…. They all just kind of started attacking me at that point, dragging me back through the floor and continuously punching me in my head.”
Where else has politics stirred up more animosity towards us then in Texas
Politics has given a green light to violence against us. And as their candidate gets father behind in the polls I think you are going to see their frustration taken out on us.
Hate crimes affects not only the target of the violence but also the whole community that is what makes it so insidious, it makes us afraid to go out and that is the purpose of the violence.HRC Remembers Dylan Gurley, Young Transgender Woman Tragically Killed in Texas
HRC
By Kathryn Smith
August 13, 202420-year old Dylan Gurley, a transgender woman from Little Elm, Texas, was killed in Denton, Texas on July 23, 2024. She was found unconscious with multiple stab wounds by police and was subsequently declared dead at a local hospital less than an hour later. Dylan’s death is at least the 23rd violent killing of a transgender or gender expansive person in 2024 that HRC has identified. We say “at least” because too often these deaths go unreported or misreported.
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Dylan was experiencing homelessness at the time of her death, which further marginalized her. At the moment, little is known about Dylan’s death and no suspect has been found. Denton police have asked that anyone with information about her death contact them by calling 940-349-7977. Anonymous tips can be reported at dentoncountycrimestoppers.com.
Texas unfortunately remains the state with the highest number of anti-trans murders in the nation. As of this writing, Dylan is the 36th trans or gender-expansive victim of fatal violence identified in Texas since HRC began tracking fatal violence in 2013, with Texas accounting for more than 1 in 10 of all victims HRC has identified to-date. All but one of these 36 victims were transgender women, and more than half (55.6%, n=20) ) were Black transgender women, specifically. More than one in ten of all victims in Texas were aged 21 or younger.
As one party tries to stab us in the back, the other party has our back.
Vote Blue as if your life depends upon it… because it does.Democrats release national platform, promising end to anti-transgender violence
"When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still wrong," the platform states.
LGBTQ Nation
By Daniel Villarreal
August 19, 2024The Democratic Party has released its official national platform for 2024, just in time for the start of its national convention, which begins today in Chicago, Illinois. The platform contains a section on “LGBTQI+” issues and also mentions the community and related issues in other sections, including those covering gun violence, the judiciary, education, and racial equity.
“This election will decide whether the next generation of Americans has more rights and freedoms than past generations or fewer,” the platform states. “Trump and Republicans are already ripping away Americans’ hard-won freedoms. Reproductive freedom, freedom from hate, freedom from fear, the freedom to control our own destinies and more are all on the line in this election.”
The LGBTQI+ section noted that Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, reversed “Trump’s un-American ban” on transgender military members, has aimed to protect LGBTQ+ children and parents in the adoption and foster care systems, has helped protect gender-affirming care, has implemented a strategy to end the HIV epidemic, opposes anti-LGBTQ+ book bans, established a task force to combat address online harassment, promoted international LGBTQ+ human rights, and ended the “disgraceful and discriminatory” ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. It also mentioned that Biden has signed several executive actions to lessen anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in housing, employment, health care, education, and the judicial system.
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