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Austin to Rally Against Hate Attack


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Gay rights advocates and civic leaders plan to rally in Austin Saturday in response to an attack last weekend against Matt Morgan and Emmanuel Winston (pictured), two members of a gay softball team.

According to the Austin American-Statesman,Morgan and Winston say they left the downtown gay bar Oilcan Harry’s around 2:30 Saturday morning dressed in their team’s “Shady Ladies” jerseys. They nearly reached a parking garage underneath City Hall when they encountered four attackers shouting antigay slurs.

“At 2 p.m. on Saturday, Morgan and Winston will join other supporters for an ‘Austin March Against Hate’ to call attention to the attack by retracing their steps early Saturday morning by marching from Oilcan Harry’s at 211 West 4th St. to City Hall,” reports the American-Statesman.

The march will be preceded by a noon rally at City Hall.

The four attackers fled the scene. Police continue to investigate the incident.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: advocate
    Date posted: 2/26/2010 4:46:45 PM
    Hometown: austin

    Comment:

    The point isn't your personal reaction or whether or not you or the people around you are conservative. The point is that Austin is progressive and these amazing men are actually doing something about what happened to them. They aren't knocking on your door asking for your opinion. They are standing up for themselves and not giving into the fear that could result from an issue that goes unaddressed. Wake up and join the fight or continue to be apathetic about things that are happening to your brothers and sisters.

  • Name: TeaBagr
    Date posted: 2/26/2010 1:05:26 AM
    Hometown: Fort Worth

    Comment:

    To say Austin is conservative is incorrect. It's the most liberal city in this state. To suggest that Austin, Dallas or Houston are more dangerous than any major city (except maybe the Bay Area) is probably incorrect (Houston has a lesbian mayor remember). To suggest that people don't carry guns here because it's "politically incorrect" is also baloney (hi Lou Dobbs!) In Texas you can legally carry your gun everywhere as well as concealed weapons almost everywhere. They don't carry them because like the majority of Americans they don't want to, and let's face it partying "strapped" it not the smartest idea unless that's your thing. It's not like there's an abundance of bashing here.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 11:53:12 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Terry, I've lived in Texas and I think it's a wonderful place. Besides, gay bashings happen where the gays are, places like San Francisco, West Hollywood, Chelsea, and plenty of other PROGRESSIVE areas have seen gay bashings. It offends me that everytime a gay bashing occurs in the south people act like all southeners are a bunch of gay bashers. Besides, the real problem is that gays for the most part are unarmed and defenseless because guns are politically incorrect in our community. Isn't that funny? Sex in the parks and bathrooms is ok, barebacking is ok, promiscuity is ok, drug use is ok, but for a drag queen to carry a pink gun? Oh no, that's just craaaaaazy.

  • Name: Terry Patterson
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 9:31:58 PM
    Hometown: Long Beach

    Comment:

    Why should anyone be surprized about this attack? Its Texas, its close to a number of military posts, and bases. Conservative? Does that also ring any "bells"?

  • Name: keith
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 3:48:59 PM
    Hometown: maynard

    Comment:

    While I have a certain level of agreement with the earlier comment regarding carrying a gun, on the larger scale I would have to stick with Audre Lorde "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." I wish I could be in Austin with you all.

  • Name: Kait
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 2:48:04 PM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    Yay! and may the winds be at your backs, you wonderful souls supporting Morgan and Winston!

  • Name: Allen
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:36:55 PM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    I'm with Frank - how can you write a story and leave out so much information. Isn't there an editor checking the copy -- and sending it back to the writer to do a better job. Let's make sure one does not have to live in Austin to know what happened.

  • Name: Frank
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:35:11 PM
    Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga

    Comment:

    Ok, now I can see the black eyes. (But I still stand by my previous comment)

  • Name: Frank
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:32:41 PM
    Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga

    Comment:

    I don't live in Austin, so it would be nice if this article told me a bit more about the incident. Since the two men are joining the march, they obviously didn't die. Were they injured in the attack? Was the attack just verbal? What went on? This isn't even a "headline" article, it's more like an announcement of an upcoming event. I come here to actually find a bit of news not just headlines.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:07:13 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Always with the rallies, as if gay bashers are gonna be real scared at a bunch of gays parading around town. Want to be safe? Buy a gun! How did the Deacons for Defense defended their churches against the Klan in the 1960s? They bough guns! Why were the Black Panthers feared? They had guns! "A man with a gun is a citizen, a man without one a subject." Think about it.



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