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Daily Archives: June 26, 2018
Intertwined: The Labor Movement and LGBT Rights
Intertwined: The Labor Movement and LGBT Rights
The president of the AFL-CIO has a message for the Pride season.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/6/26/intertwined-labor-movement-and-lgbt-rights
Lawyer Argues Miami Beach Pride Gay Bashing Couldn’t Have Been Hate Crime Because Attacker’s Father is Gay: WATCH
Lawyer Argues Miami Beach Pride Gay Bashing Couldn’t Have Been Hate Crime Because Attacker’s Father is Gay: WATCH
An attorney is trying to get hate crime charges thrown out against four men who beat a gay couple following Miami Beach’s Gay Pride festival in May. His argument? One of the men charged in the beating, which was caught on camera, has a gay father.
NBC Miami reports: “Juan Lopez, the father of Juan Carlos Lopez, said that he raised his son along with his partner of 15 years. Lopez said his son and his three friends have never attacked ‘any gay people.’ ‘I’m sure 100 percent of that,’ he said, adding that his son respects ‘everybody in this community’ and that he ‘loves LGBT.’”
Hate crime charges, which were added to aggravated battery charges, mean the men would face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
Rene Chalarca and Dmitry Logunov, the couple, and Helmut Muller Estrada, a good samaritan who stepped in, were violently attacked by the four men. The victims said they were targeted because of their sexual orientation. They said their attackers used gay slurs while assaulting them.
The attackers are identified as (clockwise, from top left) Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, 21, Luis Alonso-Piovet, 20, Juan C. Lopez, 21, and Adonis Diaz, 21. The perps turned themselves in after being seen in video and surveillance photos widely shared on social media.
Lopez’s lawyer said there was “clearly” not gay animus because Lopez’s father is gay: “These kids grew up with their friend Juan – their father has been in a gay relationship the last 15 years. These kids have participated in that – that’s at issue.”
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Strawberry & Cream
Without a Federal Law, LGBT Rights Will Be Chipped Away Like Roe v. Wade
Without a Federal Law, LGBT Rights Will Be Chipped Away Like Roe v. Wade
We absolutely need a nationwide solution to LGBT discrimination, writes Matt Foreman.
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Julie Bracken posted a photo:
The first thing you notice when you meet Julie is that she has the most shapely legs this side of christendom. It hardly seems right for one person to be blessed with this quality – still, if life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Having changed her name from a somewhat dreary title reminiscent of matronly endeavours (though this was where the resemblance ended) she spends an inordinate amount of time dreaming. A die-hard fan of Mills and Boon, she harbours a secret desire to be a classical musician – but meantime keeps her day job (though she has invested in a crimson custom-made drum kit).
Makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/
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