Last night’s vigil in Fort Worth, Texas, ostensibly for Chad Gibson, badly beaten in Sunday morning’s inspection by Fort Worth police and by the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission of the Rainbow Lounge and of the seven patrons arrested, but the incident has quite quickly become a rallying cry for the larger issue of gay civil rights. Gibson’s family, on hand Wednesday night, dispute claims made by officials that Gibson’s head injury and transportation to an area hospital was the result of alcohol poisoning. Dallas/ Fort Worth’s CBS affiliate has comprehensive coverage available here.
By happenstance, an example of hypocrisy, as a Fort Worth high school group, the Broadway Baptist Church Chapel Choir, has been uninvited to perform and participate in a Kentucky Baptist mission program because of the Fort Worth’s Church’s “lenient stance on homosexuality.” The proposed mission was to help those living in abject poverty, but the Southern Baptist Convention, the ruling body, in an attempt to sanction the Broadway Baptist Church, severed ties with the Church just last week.
Authorities in Castro Valley, California have charged nineteen year old Brandon Martel Clark with four counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon after he drove his Ford Fusion at his boyfriend and four others, the result of a fight over gifts Clark had demanded back. The car went through the crowd of five, injuring all, before going through the home of the victim’s parents.
United States Navy Seaman August Provost was found dead at the Camp Pendleton base on Tuesday, a “person of interest” being held in connection to the murder that occurred in a guard shack on the western edge of the base. No real details are available, other than Provost, twenty-nine, was gay, and that the results of an autopsy are still not complete.
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