A friend attacked
Jul. 12th, 2005 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedMany of you have posted this as well, but some of you have little overlap with most of my friends list.
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dglenn was beaten up for wearing a skirt. He was briefly hospitalized and therefore has bills, but no insurance, and a low income.
If you can, please help him out. Paypal - dglenn@radix.net. I first met Glenn in 1990, and personally vouch for his honesty.
He says: please look at doing anything to make life safer for others as doing something to help me. I'm thinking "transgendered people" when I say "others", but widen that to all GBLT folks, or to any other populations at increased risk of violence if you like. Speak out. Complain about stereotypes and ugly speech. Contribute to visibility campaigns. Lobby for better police awareness in cities I don't go to as well as ones I do. Offer your support to a transgendered cousin or niece or nephew. Vote. If retelling my story helps because it personalizes things, feel free to do so. There's little to no chance that the guys who beat me up will be caught, but if my wonderful friends, and their cool friends, are motivated to activism on behalf of people like me, then some good will have come out of this horrible act.
And since it is unlikely that the punks who attacked him will ever be brought to justice, may Justice come to them.
dglenn was beaten up for wearing a skirt. He was briefly hospitalized and therefore has bills, but no insurance, and a low income.If you can, please help him out. Paypal - dglenn@radix.net. I first met Glenn in 1990, and personally vouch for his honesty.
He says: please look at doing anything to make life safer for others as doing something to help me. I'm thinking "transgendered people" when I say "others", but widen that to all GBLT folks, or to any other populations at increased risk of violence if you like. Speak out. Complain about stereotypes and ugly speech. Contribute to visibility campaigns. Lobby for better police awareness in cities I don't go to as well as ones I do. Offer your support to a transgendered cousin or niece or nephew. Vote. If retelling my story helps because it personalizes things, feel free to do so. There's little to no chance that the guys who beat me up will be caught, but if my wonderful friends, and their cool friends, are motivated to activism on behalf of people like me, then some good will have come out of this horrible act.
And since it is unlikely that the punks who attacked him will ever be brought to justice, may Justice come to them.