Gender/Sexuality/Identity

On the 27th of April, Westboro "Baptist," a hate group notorious for their funeral protests and hatred of GLBT people showed up at Georgetown University. They had a permit to be there for an hour but chose to leave at least 20 minutes early after having their message of hate drowned out by thousands of counterprotesters.

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Former HW Bush staffer Fred Sainz is now the Human Rights Campaign's Vice President for Communications & Marketing. Unfortunately, he has defended Jeb Bush in statements to the Washington Post citing his stance on Gay marriage even though Jeb Bush also supports "religious freedom" bills to legalize businesses refusing to serve or hire GLBT or otherwise gender varient folks. On Jan 11, protesters showed up ouside the offices of the Human Rights Campaign or HRC, demanding that Fred Sainz repudiate this support for religious bigotry.

On the 4th of October shortly before noon, fundamentalist Christians were holding some kind of prayer vigil on the lawn of Planned Parenthood in DC. I do not know how they got the right to be on that lawn. Clinic escorts were present to help patients get past the anti-choicers. I asked one of the escorts when would be a good time to get photos with no patients in the way, and was told "right now." As I was doing so one of the right-wing "sidewalk counselers" engaged me with angry rhetoric. One of the escorts said their objective is confrontations with anyone present so as to create a tense atmosphere to deter patients. Years ago I even saw them do this to a full service hospital in Virginia.

A Copwatch patrol discovered US Park Police shining flashlights inside the "Black Forest" woods west of 23ed st NW south of O st NW at approximately 11:20PM on May 18th, 2014. They seemed to be moving slowly, as if they were looking for something on the ground-or like they were in bear country, seeking to avoid startling anything more powerful than them. At about 11:38PM, the cops suddenly ran to their cars and left in a bug hurry, presumably responding to some other call.