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by Meg Elison an Francisco police have arrested a man in connection with an alleged attack on two gay men who were in the city last weekend for the California Democratic Party convention. The victims, ages 21 and 23, told police they had been struck in the face by a male suspect who had used homophobic slurs immediately prior to the attack, which took place Sunday, June 2, at 12:50 a.m. outside Southside Spirit House, 575 Howard Street. Griffin Murray, 27, of San Francisco, was located by police a few blocks away from the incident. Murray was cited and released on two counts of misdemeanor battery, according to the San Francisco Police Department. The Bay Area Reporter spoke with one of the victims on Tuesday, who asked that he not be identified in the paper. Speaking briefly by phone, he confirmed SFPD’s description of the event and described his injuries including a concussion and the lasting emotional impact of battery. “I’m just trying to recover,” the victim, who had been hospitalized, said. “I am still traumatized.” The other victim reportedly suffered minor injuries, according to police. The incident took place following the Saturday night session of the state Democratic Party’s convention at nearby Moscone Center. Both victims were in town to attend the convention. The timing of the incident prompted alarmed responses from party officials and local public figures who were concerned by homophobic violence in a city known as a haven for the LGBTQ community. Newly-elected California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks weighed in on the attack as one of his first official statements in the position. “I join the CDP LGBTQ Caucus and Democrats everywhere in strongly condemning the violent attack on two Democratic LGBTQ activists in San Francisco on Saturday,” he said in a statement. “Violence motivated by hate and homophobia is particularly repulsive, and we must all speak out for safer communities and stand with the survivors today.”
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he city councils of Dublin and Tracy voted Tuesday night to fly the rainbow flag in recognition of June being Pride month. Both flag requests were brought by gay freshmen councilmen who were elected in November as the first LGBT people to serve on their city’s governing bodies. And both generated heated debate between those opposed and in support of seeing the LGBT community’s symbol be flown on flagpoles in front of the
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ayor London Breed waves to a crowd below City Hall Monday, June 3, after gay city Treasurer Jose Cisneros, right, and other officials raised the rainbow flag to usher in Pride Month. “San Francisco has always been a leader in the fight for equal rights, and we will continue to push to not only protect the rights of everyone in our city, but to expand those rights,” Breed said in a statement. She also said that the
city and LGBTQ community must remember “those who have come before us, including those who have been the victims of hate crimes and who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS.” She said that on the occasion of the 49th San Francisco Pride parade, which is coming up June 30, “we recommit ourselves to being a city for all people, no matter who you are, where you come from, or who you love.”
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ay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was one of several White House contenders who received an enthusiastic response from delegates at last weekend’s California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco. But Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, two of the 14 candidates who made their pitches in a packed hall at Moscone Center Saturday, outshined him, while the state’s junior senator, Kamala Harris, was greeted warmly but did not ignite sparks like the others, based on audience response in the room. Buttigieg, a millennial and the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said he’s running “because of the seriousness of the moment we’re in. A moment of such consequence that even now, we may well be underreacting.” “In these times, Democrats can no more promise to take us back to the 2000s or 1990s that conservatives can take us back to the 1950s,” he said. Speaking about the fact that he is the only out candidate in the race, Buttigieg said, “This morning I woke up next to my husband, a moment that exists because of a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court.” He told delegates, “There’s no going back to normal now.” “A president like this one doesn’t come within cheating distance of the Oval Office unless something is deeply wrong with the old normal,” he added. “The economic ‘normal’ has failed a work-
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ing and middle class that powered America into a new era of growth ... only to see the amazing wealth we created go to a tiny few. The political ‘normal’ has failed when an American majority supports ideas from universal health care to common-sense gun safety laws, only to see their politicians unable to deliver.” That was a theme throughout Saturday’s sessions, and one that Warren zeroed in on. The Massachusetts senator has been rolling out plans for various problems she sees in the country, and the San Francisco audience wanted to hear them. “We will break up big ag, we will break up big banks, we will break up big tech,” Warren said to loud cheers. “Yes, we will pass a wealth tax – 2 cents on the dollar –” for those making over $50
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