Hate on the rise?
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/9-26/outindc/cover/13334.cfm9/26/2008
Local residents expressed alarm this week over a perceived rise in anti-gay crime, after a Maryland man died of injuries he received while walking to a D.C. gay bar.
Locals gathered at BeBar last week for a memorial for 37-year-old gay Maryland resident Tony Randolph Hunter, who'd died the previous day from injuries sustained in a robbery that happened near the club on Sept. 7. (A candlelight vigil for Hunter is planned for Sunday at Metropolitan Community Church.)
Police say there isn't enough evidence to declare the act a hate crime, but gay D.C. residents have become frightened and concerned by what they say amounts to another in a string of high-profile acts of violence committed against the gay community.
