Equality Through Intimidation? The Houston HRC Dinner Protest
I just recieved this from Phyllis Frye: By calling the Houston Police, national HRC deliberately set in motion a police over response. HRC used government and taxpayer monies to intimidate the hell out of TG and gender variant people who drove in to participate, but were scared away. I hope the Advocate or Blade or Voice do a freedom of information act request to determine how much money was used to cover the HRC “false alarm.” I think the City of Houston should bill National HRC for the knowing “false alarm.” Only 11 folks were brave enough to show when driving in and seeing the police riot set up that HRC had triggered. Three were…
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