Scorched triangle
SAN FRANCISCO: The pink triangle in San Francisco placed in the hills above Castro was burned (by an arsonist(s)???) . The triangle is there as a reminder of the gays and lesbians that were killed in th Holocaust:
Arson investigators were trying to determine what caused a fire that damaged the Pink Triangle on San Francisco's Twin Peaks Sunday morning just hours before the city's annual Pride Parade was set to kick off, a fire department lieutenant said. "Right now investigators are looking at all possible sources of ignition," San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mindy Talmadge said. The blaze was reported at about 5 a.m. near Christmas Tree Point Road and was extinguished about 30 minutes later. A 25-by-30 foot area was damaged, she said.
The police think road flares were used to start the fire by someone.
Police raid in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH: Police raid the Rainbow Lounge and by first hand accounts the arrests were unwarranted and random. Todd Camp was there and gave his account to the Dallas Voice:
"From what he said, it appears police were there arresting people who appeared to have had too much to drink. Todd said that although he saw no one resisting the police, the officers were quite rough in the way they handled people, and that he saw several people shoved rather violently to the ground and handcuffed (with the plastic zip-tie handcuffs)."
One person received brain injuries during the incident.
Crowds of about 150 to 200 people gathered Sunday at the steps of Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth to protest the raids of the FWPD and TABC.
Joe Holladay
NEW YORK: Former Village Voice sales rep Joe Holladay was attacked and beaten on the Upper East Side and the scum used the word "faggot" during the violent assault.
Holladay's former employer, The Village Voice reports:"Holladay tells us that he walked out of John Jerome's apartment on East 85th Street between York and East End Avenues, where he'd been staying, at about 4 a.m. to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk, and five or six young men swarmed him. 'It's very blurry,' he says, 'But yeah, they said 'faggot.' And the next thing I know I'm in the hospital.' Jerome, an acting coach, heard the fracas and came downstairs to find his friend 'in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. He wasn't moving.' Jerome says neighbors in the building told him, and the police, that they saw a group of five or six young white men 'with crewcuts, wearing wife-beaters' smoking pot outside the building just before the incident -- and, drawn to their window by the noise when the beating occurred, heard the anti-gay epithets and saw the young men pile into a car and drive away."
Holladay's head injury was a result from the base of a gun; NYPD detectives are still investigating
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