Residents of Casa Ruby, a LGBT youth community center and shelter in Washington, D.C., were preparing to turn on a movie on Sunday afternoon to distract themselves from the cold late-winter day.
But before they could settle down in their warm, safe space, a visitor stood up, assaulted a staff member, threw a brick, shattered the glass door, and threatened to return to kill someone.
Conservatives have been vocal about the need to insure "religious freedom," but it rings rather hollow after we learn that Christian evangelicals believe they are the people most discriminated against in today's world.
That is, of course, just crazy-making.
When employees and volunteers at the Los Angeles LGBT Center arrived at work Friday, they discovered that one wall of a Center facility at Ed Gould Plaza (near Santa Monica Blvd. and Highland) had been defaced. Between 9 and 10 pm on Thursday night someone had spray painted an outer wall with graffiti: Fuck Trannies...Fuck all y'all.
It is Transgender Awareness Week, It started Monday. It will culminate on the 20th with Transgender Day of Remembrance.
I have to admit that I have never had political message bumper stickers on my car...or any other message that might inflame someone to deface my vehicle.
Alyssa Eve is a 23-year-old transgender woman who transitioned six years ago. One might think people had gotten over that by now.
But around 11:30 pm Friday Alyssa heard banging on the windows of her apartment.
She quickly called her mother, let out her Labrador retriever and went to investigate.
The first thing I saw was, ‘Kill yourself’ on my door.
--Alyssa Eve
