An update from our very own G. Charles Wright:
For those of you following my gay basher/broken nose story, I want to
give you a quick update. I'm talking to John Duran's office at the
city of West Hollywood trying to get them to pressure the West
Hollywood's Sheriffs department to treat sexual orientation hate crimes
with the same care and professionalism that they give to other victims
of hate crimes (gender, religion, ethnicity based). You may recall
that the Sheriffs Department refused to send a deputy to the ER to take my
statement. Later when I complained, I was told by the Sheriff's that
it is their policy not to send deputies to the ER to take statements,
but that it is my responsibility to go to the sheriff's station myself
and report it. This is, of course, in direct opposition to what both
the hospital and the city hall have told me.
(Other than that) my scar is healing well and it makes me look more butch. :-)
can others add their voice to the duran/weho pressure? how would we do this?
Posted by: Peter | February 09, 2009 at 11:00 PM
two ways. go to www.weho.org that's the city of west hollywood's website. you can email them there, and you can also get the physical mailing address and a list of council members to write to.
hernan molina is the deputy to council member john duran. hernan is closely watching the sheriff's dept on this issue and has begun to set up some reminder training for the dept. to go over better communication with the hospital and to always send out a deputy to investigate a hate crime. hernan promises to keep me updated on this progress and he and i plan to speak again after the election.
Posted by: g. charles wright | February 10, 2009 at 12:23 AM
love it. that scar is gonna be so daddy.
Posted by: willam | February 10, 2009 at 03:17 PM
WTF!?! I'm sorry you got hit, honey. On the flip side, your mug is still lookin' cute as always tho. xoxox Rest up and keep fighting the good fight!
Posted by: candice | February 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Arrrghhhh....I freaking hate ignorant f**kers! I'm going to have to volunteer as a body guard for you G....and kick some redneck ass!
Posted by: Jane | February 17, 2009 at 03:59 PM
the juxtaposition of your face wounds with the Dland map behind you is brilliant. hope you're healing up and feeling better, g.
Posted by: jefbot | February 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Holy sh%t, man. I'm so sorry, baby. Your face still looks beautiful!! Let us know what we can do to help the movement!!
Posted by: Paige | March 27, 2009 at 04:03 PM