WATCH: Gay Soldiers Attacked in a possible Hate Crime in Colorado

A Man Arrested for a Hate Crime in Santa Ana, CA.

Last October, there was a noose hanging at a Equality California office in Santa Ana, California. Now an arrest has been finally made.

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Two teens face hate crime charges for Beating a Transgender Woman in McDonald’s

The two women who beat Chrissy Lee Polis, a transgender woman in McDonald's were indicted on hate crime charges the other day.

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Teonna Brown, 18, was indicted Monday on assault and hate crime charges in the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis at the restaurant last month. She is also charged with assaulting a customer and a McDonald’s employee who tried to intervene. A 14-year-old girl is facing the same charges in juvenile court. The Associated Press typically does not identify juveniles charged with crimes.

Both teenagers are being held, prosecutors said no one else would be charged.
Brown was defending herself and maintains her innocence, according to attorney Timothy P. Knepp. He declined to go into further detail.

“She’s a very nice young lady who lives with her mom and is not the person the press has made her out to be,” Knepp said.

A videotape of the April 18 beating showed a woman being attacked repeatedly while an employee and customer try to stop them, and the woman apparently having a seizure.

While some thinks the jail time is justice, others think counseling and anger management will help the girls stay away from future trouble.

In Mexico: A Gay Activist may have been Assassinated

LGBT Asylum News reports that gay activist Leija Herrera was stoned to death, many believe that it was an act of assassination.

Leija Herrera, was the director of del Centro de Estudios y Proyectos para el Desarrollo Humano Inegral (CEPRODEHI, Center for Studies and Human Development Projects Inegral) and had participated in demonstrations, lobbied for civil unions and reported killings, discrimination and attacks against lesbians, gays and transgender people to the State's Attorney General.

His body was discovered Wednesday 4 May in the centre of the city covered in bruises, apparently caused by stones. Authorities suggested he may have been stoned to death.

Local activists have organised a petition to the State Govenor, Angel Aguirre.

It says that there is a "widespread climate of harassment and criminalization of the work of defenders of human rights in Mexico and the cruelty and brutality of the murder presents evidence of a homophobic hate crime."

The petition demands a prompt, independent, comprehensive, effective and impartial investigation into murder, an end to all forms of harassment against LGBT people and respect for international human rights and the work of advocates in Mexico. 

My heart goes on to the family and friends of Leija. The petition is here

In Texas: A man was Beaten outside of a Gay Bar

This feels like a trend in Texas.

Over the weekend, a young man was beaten by 6 men outside of a gay club. One of the 6 men used a baseball bat.

KVIA.com reports:

El Paso police officers said an investigation revealed the victim was waiting for a ride outside the Old Plantation Night Club on 301 South Ochoa Street when he was attacked around 12:20 a.m. Saturday.


Police said the victim, only described as a 22-year-old Hispanic man, was involved in a verbal confrontation with six other men.


The fight escalated to punching and kicking and police said one of the six men even used a bat to hit the victim.


A friend of the victim tried to intervene, but was stopped by one of the six men when he struck her Jeep with a bat and damaged the windshield, according to police.

The young man is in critical condition.