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发帖数: 2153 | 1 After a Colorado lesbian was allegedly assaulted by a Colorado Mesa
University (CMU) football player at a Grand Junction, Colo, bar, local LGBT
groups and other officials got together to discuss how to raise awareness
about hate crimes, local news station News 11 reported.
Shane Williams, 20, allegedly had an argument with Chelsea Gallagher and her
girlfriend Ashley Davis. The incident escalated into a violent physical
altercation and Gallagher claims that he slammed her into the ground, which
knocked her out and gave her a fractured skull, Denver’s ABC 7 News
reported.
"Going outside to leave...is when they started kind of making comments about
us being gay and saying that Ashley looked like a boy and stuff," Gallagher
said. Davis claims that a man named Dakota shouted anti-gay epithets at her
and Gallagher and at two other women before Williams attacked Gallagher.
Police arrested Williams on suspicion of second-degree assault, possession
of a fake I.D. and being a minor in possession of alcohol.
"It’s pretty terrifying to have to go through that on a regular basis, to
be aware that something could happen to you," Donovan Haynne, CMU’s gay
straight alliance’s president said. "People used homophobic slurs towards
me, there was people who actually acted out and were physically violent
towards me because of my sexuality," he said.
News Channel 5, a Colorado news station, reported that there has been a 13%
increase in anti-gay hate crimes.
"We get calls at least a couple of times a month, from someone who has been
mistreated, beaten up for being different, whether it’s in the schools,
whether they’re adults, kids, it’s just on the rise," Western Equality
president Jerry Shelton said.
"To have homophobia not exist and discrimination as a whole, whether it’s
racially motivated or motivated based on sexual orientation, to have that
not exist and have a happier and healthier campus as well as community,"
Haynne added.
Williams has been suspended from the college’s football team and is
scheduled to appear in court on April 3.http://www.edgeprovidence.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=130701 |
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