"Join us for a vigil tonight at 8 pm at Harvey Milk Plaza to mourn, honor, and remember the PulseNightclub victims and to recommit ourselves to the fight for peace and LGBT equality."
- Scott Wiener
https://www.facebook.com/ScottWiener2
More details on Missionlocal.org
http://missionlocal.org/2016/06/sf-mission-leaders-respond-to-florida-rampage-vigil-tonight-in-castro/
"Latino leaders had a previously scheduled meeting at the Lone Star, a bar on Harrison Street in the SoMa, at 4 p.m. to fundraise for the Dyke March and Trans March, annual Pride marches that start out at Dolores Park and go through the Mission and Castro.
Sandoval said that while some leaders questioned whether the fundraiser should go forward, he doubled down and said it would be a mistake to cancel.
“Some people were wondering ‘Should we still continue?’ And what I said was ‘Yes we need to show our resilience by continuing,’” he said. “We continue to fight with, and love, generations past, generations that are here now, and generations in the future.”
“We’re gonna continue, that act of violence is not going make us to stop living,” he added.
The Mission District has a complicated relationship with the LGBTQ community. Arguello said that though the Mission District and Castro “have grown up together” and “suffered and been targeted for discrimination,” there were often gaps in mutual support.
“I think we’ve made a lot of progress over the years,” he said. “But at the same time we have a lot of differences and we’ve tried bridging those gaps.”
Last year, a mural at Galería de la Raza on 24th Street depicting a gay couple, a lesbian couple, and a transgender man was first defaced and then set aflame in an act that was marked a hate crime.
Hundreds came out to support Galería and the muralist. Speaker after speaker spoke to the homophobia they experienced in the Mission District and reaffirmed the ties between the Latino and LGBT community, saying that “the Mission has always had that queer presence.”
Supervisor Campos on Sunday said that the community must respond to the Orlando shooting as it did to the mural defacement, by rallying together and recognizing common bonds.
“I think that it’s an opportunity to remind people of that, and to figure out how we strengthen the ties between not only the Latino and the LGBT community, but between all communities,” he said...."
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- Scott Wiener
https://www.facebook.com/ScottWiener2
More details on Missionlocal.org
http://missionlocal.org/2016/06/sf-mission-leaders-respond-to-florida-rampage-vigil-tonight-in-castro/
"Latino leaders had a previously scheduled meeting at the Lone Star, a bar on Harrison Street in the SoMa, at 4 p.m. to fundraise for the Dyke March and Trans March, annual Pride marches that start out at Dolores Park and go through the Mission and Castro.
Sandoval said that while some leaders questioned whether the fundraiser should go forward, he doubled down and said it would be a mistake to cancel.
“Some people were wondering ‘Should we still continue?’ And what I said was ‘Yes we need to show our resilience by continuing,’” he said. “We continue to fight with, and love, generations past, generations that are here now, and generations in the future.”
“We’re gonna continue, that act of violence is not going make us to stop living,” he added.
The Mission District has a complicated relationship with the LGBTQ community. Arguello said that though the Mission District and Castro “have grown up together” and “suffered and been targeted for discrimination,” there were often gaps in mutual support.
“I think we’ve made a lot of progress over the years,” he said. “But at the same time we have a lot of differences and we’ve tried bridging those gaps.”
Last year, a mural at Galería de la Raza on 24th Street depicting a gay couple, a lesbian couple, and a transgender man was first defaced and then set aflame in an act that was marked a hate crime.
Hundreds came out to support Galería and the muralist. Speaker after speaker spoke to the homophobia they experienced in the Mission District and reaffirmed the ties between the Latino and LGBT community, saying that “the Mission has always had that queer presence.”
Supervisor Campos on Sunday said that the community must respond to the Orlando shooting as it did to the mural defacement, by rallying together and recognizing common bonds.
“I think that it’s an opportunity to remind people of that, and to figure out how we strengthen the ties between not only the Latino and the LGBT community, but between all communities,” he said...."
"Join us for a vigil tonight at 8 pm at Harvey Milk Plaza to mourn, honor, and remember the PulseNightclub victims and to recommit ourselves to the fight for peace and LGBT equality."
- Scott Wiener
https://www.facebook.com/ScottWiener2
More details on Missionlocal.org
http://missionlocal.org/2016/06/sf-mission-leaders-respond-to-florida-rampage-vigil-tonight-in-castro/
"Latino leaders had a previously scheduled meeting at the Lone Star, a bar on Harrison Street in the SoMa, at 4 p.m. to fundraise for the Dyke March and Trans March, annual Pride marches that start out at Dolores Park and go through the Mission and Castro.
Sandoval said that while some leaders questioned whether the fundraiser should go forward, he doubled down and said it would be a mistake to cancel.
“Some people were wondering ‘Should we still continue?’ And what I said was ‘Yes we need to show our resilience by continuing,’” he said. “We continue to fight with, and love, generations past, generations that are here now, and generations in the future.”
“We’re gonna continue, that act of violence is not going make us to stop living,” he added.
The Mission District has a complicated relationship with the LGBTQ community. Arguello said that though the Mission District and Castro “have grown up together” and “suffered and been targeted for discrimination,” there were often gaps in mutual support.
“I think we’ve made a lot of progress over the years,” he said. “But at the same time we have a lot of differences and we’ve tried bridging those gaps.”
Last year, a mural at Galería de la Raza on 24th Street depicting a gay couple, a lesbian couple, and a transgender man was first defaced and then set aflame in an act that was marked a hate crime.
Hundreds came out to support Galería and the muralist. Speaker after speaker spoke to the homophobia they experienced in the Mission District and reaffirmed the ties between the Latino and LGBT community, saying that “the Mission has always had that queer presence.”
Supervisor Campos on Sunday said that the community must respond to the Orlando shooting as it did to the mural defacement, by rallying together and recognizing common bonds.
“I think that it’s an opportunity to remind people of that, and to figure out how we strengthen the ties between not only the Latino and the LGBT community, but between all communities,” he said...."
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- Scott Wiener
https://www.facebook.com/ScottWiener2
More details on Missionlocal.org
http://missionlocal.org/2016/06/sf-mission-leaders-respond-to-florida-rampage-vigil-tonight-in-castro/
"Latino leaders had a previously scheduled meeting at the Lone Star, a bar on Harrison Street in the SoMa, at 4 p.m. to fundraise for the Dyke March and Trans March, annual Pride marches that start out at Dolores Park and go through the Mission and Castro.
Sandoval said that while some leaders questioned whether the fundraiser should go forward, he doubled down and said it would be a mistake to cancel.
“Some people were wondering ‘Should we still continue?’ And what I said was ‘Yes we need to show our resilience by continuing,’” he said. “We continue to fight with, and love, generations past, generations that are here now, and generations in the future.”
“We’re gonna continue, that act of violence is not going make us to stop living,” he added.
The Mission District has a complicated relationship with the LGBTQ community. Arguello said that though the Mission District and Castro “have grown up together” and “suffered and been targeted for discrimination,” there were often gaps in mutual support.
“I think we’ve made a lot of progress over the years,” he said. “But at the same time we have a lot of differences and we’ve tried bridging those gaps.”
Last year, a mural at Galería de la Raza on 24th Street depicting a gay couple, a lesbian couple, and a transgender man was first defaced and then set aflame in an act that was marked a hate crime.
Hundreds came out to support Galería and the muralist. Speaker after speaker spoke to the homophobia they experienced in the Mission District and reaffirmed the ties between the Latino and LGBT community, saying that “the Mission has always had that queer presence.”
Supervisor Campos on Sunday said that the community must respond to the Orlando shooting as it did to the mural defacement, by rallying together and recognizing common bonds.
“I think that it’s an opportunity to remind people of that, and to figure out how we strengthen the ties between not only the Latino and the LGBT community, but between all communities,” he said...."
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