Where have I been today? I've been being social activist girl.
Early this morning, this news article was posted on the website for a small gay and lesbian paper in SLC. Someone linked it on a board I check for former Mormons.
The gist is that back last Friday night, this 20 year old man was leaving a club that has "gay themed" nights(I know...it's Utah), and was followed by four Caucasian young men shouting slurs. He tried to ignore them, and then they proceed to beat him to a pulp, breaking his jawbone in three places by "curb checking" him(which I am not going to define, it churns my stomach).
The immediate response by myself and several members was this: why have none of the major news sources in Utah reported this happening? I started writing emails, etc, and it seems I wasn't alone. While the major conservative newspaper sent an email essentially blowing me off, it's competitor not only answered everyone who had written in individually, but tracked the news source back to the web forum, and posted regular updates today until they had a piece about it on their website!
Based on my interaction with their representative, it would seem that not only is this not the first beating of a gay man outside of this club, but the victim in this case actually intervened in a similar incident. Not only that, but the SLC PD never included this incident(or the one back in April) in the daily briefings they do with news agencies. The fact this is getting any attention at this point is purely grassroots effort.
Here is the article in the SLC Tribune.
Right now, I'm looking forward to some answers about why the police haven't said anything about this when they weren't following any leads.
Early this morning, this news article was posted on the website for a small gay and lesbian paper in SLC. Someone linked it on a board I check for former Mormons.
The gist is that back last Friday night, this 20 year old man was leaving a club that has "gay themed" nights(I know...it's Utah), and was followed by four Caucasian young men shouting slurs. He tried to ignore them, and then they proceed to beat him to a pulp, breaking his jawbone in three places by "curb checking" him(which I am not going to define, it churns my stomach).
The immediate response by myself and several members was this: why have none of the major news sources in Utah reported this happening? I started writing emails, etc, and it seems I wasn't alone. While the major conservative newspaper sent an email essentially blowing me off, it's competitor not only answered everyone who had written in individually, but tracked the news source back to the web forum, and posted regular updates today until they had a piece about it on their website!
Based on my interaction with their representative, it would seem that not only is this not the first beating of a gay man outside of this club, but the victim in this case actually intervened in a similar incident. Not only that, but the SLC PD never included this incident(or the one back in April) in the daily briefings they do with news agencies. The fact this is getting any attention at this point is purely grassroots effort.
Here is the article in the SLC Tribune.
Right now, I'm looking forward to some answers about why the police haven't said anything about this when they weren't following any leads.
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