San Ramon Man arrested for hate crime after video captures racist rant at In-N-Out

 

San Ramon Man arrested for hate crime after video captures racist rant at In-N-Out
Dec 26, 2022

Read the original article here: https://abc7news.com/san-ramon-racist-rant-hate-crime-arine-kim-investigation/12617084/

A man who was caught on video spewing racist and homophobic remarks to a woman and her friend at a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve has been arrested, according to police.

Danville on Christmas morning was the last place and time Abigail Halili and her siblings expected to have an abrasive encounter.

"We heard a guy parked in his car yelling from his window saying keep walking you need to get away from that store, 'you've been the people vandalizing and robbing theses shops,'" said Halili.

The taunts quickly turned racial and included an obscene hand gesture.

Thanks to social media the Halili family quickly learned they weren't the only Asian Americans in the East Bay to be targeted by these racist rants.

You can hear a man off camera say "...you guys filming yourself eating? You're weird homosexuals."

San Ramon Police ABC7 News the suspect seen in Halili's video is the man they arrested Monday afternoon, linked to a racist and homophobic tirade at an In-N-Out in San Ramon on Christmas Eve.

President Biden set to sign Respect for Marriage Act

Following the Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, the House passed the legislation on December 8 and now it heads to the desk of President Biden to be enshrined into law.

The law would ensure federal protections for marriages of same-sex and interracial couples. 

With the Respect for Marriage Act, the Federal government will recognize marriages that were validly performed and guarantee full benefits “regardless of the couple’s sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.” 

It also requires states to recognize legal marriages performed in other states. It would not, however, require states to issue marriage licenses contrary to state law.

The legislation is overwhelmingly supported by public support for legal same-sex marriage, which hit a new high of 71% in June, according to Galllup tracking polls.

“Love is now the law,” Cuba Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

This article originally appears in HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cuba-same-sex-marriage-vote_n_6331ece2e4b00f7fcb55598b

HAVANA (AP) — Cubans have approved a sweeping “family law” code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents, officials said Monday, though opposition in the national referendum was unusually strong on the Communist Party-governed island.

The measure — which contains more than 400 articles — was approved by 66.9% to 33.1%, the president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, told official news media, though returns from a few places remained to be counted.

The reforms had met unusually strong open resistance from the growing evangelical movement in Cuba — and many other Cubans — despite an extensive government campaign in favor of the measure, including thousands of informative meetings across the country and extensive media coverage backing it.

Cuban elections — in which no party other than the Communist is allowed — routinely produce victory margins of more than 90% — as did a referendum on a major constitutional reform in 2019.

The code would allow surrogate pregnancies, broader rights for grandparents in regard to grandchildren, protection of the elderly and measures against gender violence.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who has promoted the law acknowledged questions about the measure as he voted on Sunday.

Original article is here.

Beautiful Mural in San Francisco

 

Seen on the streets of San Francisco, August 2022

Rise in LBGTQ Hate After Florida Passed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law

Read the original article by Eesha Pendharkar on Education Week here.

Digital hate directed at the LGBTQ+ community—often from Republican lawmakers or their spokespeople—increased sharply after Florida passed its controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law, according to a new report.

"The sharp spike in hateful rhetoric against gay, lesbian, transgender, and nonbinary people was centered on the false accusation that LGBTQ+ people “groom” children, researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found."

The law, formally titled Parental Rights in Education, was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 28. It bans lessons on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through 3rd grades.

In all, the research indicates that a right-wing narrative casting schools as sites of gender indoctrination is now having a broader impact on LGBTQ people and youth.

On Facebook, researchers identified 59 ads that promote the “grooming” narrative that were purchased between March and August and were viewed a total of more than 2.1 million times.

In the month following passage of the law, the volume of tweets engaging in “grooming” discourse increased by 406 percent, the report found. The 500 most-viewed tweets that advance the “grooming” narrative were viewed at least 72 million times.

Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” law prevents school from anti-bullying measures.

Students in a Florida school district can no longer access a training video aimed at helping prevent anti-LGBTQ bullying thanks to the state’s recently enacted “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Read the original article at LGBTQ Nation.

Duval County Public Schools removed the 12-minute video, which had been used in the district’s All In for Safe Schools program, from YouTube according to an investigation by WJCT Public Media’s Jacksonville Today.

Duval Schools District spokesperson Tracy Pierce confirmed that the video had “been removed for legal review to ensure the content complies with recent state legislation.”

According to Gay Straight Alliance faculty sponsor Scott Sowell, the video was created for students with the input of Duval LGBTQ students with funding from a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant.