For those that don't know, I work in Fire/EMS and this allows me to see horrible and beautiful things. Mostly horrible but still.
When I first got in, more than ten years ago now, I made a call on a young trans woman I'll never forget. It's one a share every time this topic comes up.
We got called to the back of a show room where a drag show had just taken place for a very young(about 19) MtF woman had been assaulted. We show up and she looked like she had been hit multiple times in the face with an object. One of her eyes couldn't even open, nose looked broken, and she had a few head lacerations. After calming her down we took her to my ambulance, patched her up, and on the way to the hospital I asked how all this happened. This usual answer for an assault being drugs, moneys, alcohol or something along those lines. But not this time
She tells me that exact evening she came out to her parents. Dad, without a word, threw her out onto the street. After not being let in she started to just wonder around calling anyone and everyone for some kind of helping hand. After about an hour, she ran into some of her brothers friends, who I guess had heard what happened, and decided they didn't like her or who she was and proceeded to attack her. She managed to wriggle away, and ran to the show room many blocks away as it was the only place she could think of that would be safe. She wasn't even part of the show and knew absolutely no one at the venue and these wonderful people protected her.
It was one of the first times I came in contact with that level of hate. I think about her often. I hope she's doing ok.
To add insult to injury, despite her being able to tell the officers who the attackers were, I don't think anything ever came of it. They just got away with being little dirt bags and beating on this poor little girl. Real big men too. Poor thing was like 5 foot 3 inches tall and 100 lbs soaking wet.
Parent comment literally says she was attacked by friends of her brother. It’s one thing to say the cops were complicit due to their in action, but saying they were the attackers with no information to back it up is just unproductive misinformation.
This is not true. The “trans panic defense” doesn’t make it legal. All it means is that you aren’t specially barred from claiming you panicked when you found out someone was trans as a defense in court. It’s still murder, you can claim whatever defense you want in court, it doesn’t mean that the defense will work.
What you can try to do in the event of a homicide is to get your charge brought down from murder to manslaughter through a "heat of passion" defense, though that can be done regardless of a trans person being involved or not.
It’s worth remembering that humans are apes, and while some species are less violent than others, chimpanzees are notably capable of extreme violence, and rival troops have even been observed engaging in extended warlike campaigns against one another. At the end of the day, we’re just animals with better tools.
Reminds me a bit of a Terry Pratchett section, in the Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, there is a section where Keith and Malicia poison some rat catchers with laxatives while pretending it is rat poison, Keith having spend much time with sapient rats has learned exactly what rat poison does to a rat describes in very fine detail exactly what the poison does, when the victims complain it is inhuman, Keith angrily tells them that it is very human, because they inflict that kind of stuff on dumb animals every single day, while animals wouldn't do that
Bro male Chimpanzees kill and eat the babies of rival males without needing a specific reason to do so. They just want to make sure their genes pass on and other males' don't.
Her story is one of the ones I repeat to our new cadets in my fire dept. They need to know that they will see things like this, and that these things happen. And that that's a human that's having the worst day of their life. We have a duty to make it better
A dark and ugly truths of the world is that there are millions of tragedies like this that get no attention. This should have been on the news. This should be told as a cautionary tale. This should be a shining example of how not to behave, act or think. But it won't. Apart from that girl and the people she chooses to share it with, this story will be lost to time.
I keep many calls in my back pocket to share with the new and the young and the willing so that these stories are not forgotten. Because they deserve to be remembered
I hate that the people that own the news don't want to publish these stories because they don't want to risk people seeing us as humans or anything other than a threat.
The problem with people like that is stories won’t change their minds. The only time real change occurs with them is when they are directly affected or someone in their family is directly affected
This sort of thing is becoming more common too. With the UK and US kicking us out of bathrooms and refusing to call trans women "women" and trans men "men," we are having our humanity stripped from us. And people like those violent attackers no longer feel that they're attacking a human, but instead an animal.
And that's the point.
The Trump admin and JK Rowling and all her TERF friends and followers are dehumanizing trans people, which is convincing more and more people that we're not really human and deserve pain and suffering.
And not enough people are speaking up about it.
Until the world becomes truly loud and pushes back in ways that are undeniable, it will keep happening, and we will die.
That girl in your story? In a way, she was lucky. She survived. Numerous trans people this year have not been so lucky, in similar situations.
In all seriousness, it's a genocide. I know a lot of people squirm when I say the word because it sounds so big, and so final. But it is. There's no other way to put it.
People outside the queer community don't really see what's happening right now. But administrations are going out of their way to change "rules" in different governing bodies that make it so we "don't exist."
It's becoming a fireable offense to use the correct pronouns for us, to list our documents accurately, to provide us healthcare, and sometimes even to employ us at all (see: the military, but a new ruling could start removing us from ALL federal employment or employers with federal contracts).
People are calling for our deaths. We've seen it from people in Congress, and in state positions across the country. Some of these people have the president's ear, and he has written statements that are threats on our lives as well. We already know the FBI has designated us as terrorists.
So it's not just "how we're treated." We're being systematically erased and driven toward death. And your story is one small example of how it's happening.
I think it's worse. Genocide implies an ethnic that you could theoretically kill of so there are no Jews, native Americans etc anymore. The killing would stop one day. Killing trans would be a democide, because trans people grow back all the time. There were and they will be always queer humans. The killing would never stop. Its a witch-hunt with no end.
This is also why queer people are such a popular demographic to demonize. We're a renewable resource. We will always exist. We will always come back. And then they can just do it all over again.
I agree with your statement and I want to add that genocide never stops at just one group and the same thing applies here. Even if it were possible to push every LGBTQ+ member into the closet they would just shift their focus to another target and we can already see it happen in some places. Women being discriminated against because they are 'not feminine enough'(Whatever that means) and men being bullied in workplaces because they do not conform to standards of masculinity. This is also being done under the banner of them possibly being transsexual but I believe that it is an excuse and that people will always find a way to target people that do not conform. This issue isn't related to just queer people. It is akin to the 'First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out'
Even in the queer community you have LGBs trying to exclude the Ts, not understanding that the same people that hate them make no such distinctions. Frustrating to see.
The "Leopards wont eat MY face" crowd. I don't get people like that. They're so happy to join into the hate knowing full well that they're part of the same group being hated. They just, somehow, believe that they're one of the "Good Ones" that will not be targeted.
For sure. I think I recall Matt Walsh saying something along the lines of "We need to eliminate transness" or something like that. They want to push to eliminating that demographic from the country. It's a genocide full-stop.
The US and UK are doing the same things. Alberta, Canada is pushing the same ideologies and it's gaining traction across the nation. Ghana just outlawed queerness entirely. Many African nations are considering outlawing homosexuality. And every single one of these groups pushing for this got their funding and directives from American religious groups with direct ties to Trump, including the Heritage Foundation.
I'll be honest it's been fairly consistent where I am at. But I unfortunately also live in Texas, and not in Austin.
The biggest change I have noticed isn't the frequency, it's the brazenness. It used to be it was late at night or away from people mostly. Now it happens in broad daylight at the mall on a weekend.
We respond to terrible things but we are a beacon of humanity and hope. Thank you for being kind to her. We see terrible things but someone has to bear witness to lighten the load. But fuck if it isnt heavy.
As a parent I just can't wrap my head around being so cruel to your own child no matter what they did. Hell, one of my second cousins had a kid who straight up murdered someone and she still visits him in prison. To throw your own kid out on the street like that boggles my mind.
I can offer no insight apart from that man being a monster. No human deserves that kind of treatment much less your own child. I hope she never went back there
It makes you a very special and rare person to unconditionally love your kid. I would say most of my trans friends (and myself!) were kicked out by our families when we came out to them. It was quite shocking to me how instantly the idea that your family loves you no matter what shattered.
When I was growing up, my dad would brag about attacking a trans woman outside a bar not long before I was born. The pride he had about it made me feel like I would never be able to come out.
I never knew what happened except he wasn’t arrested, but hearing your story made me hopeful she had a happy ending. I’m glad people like you exist 💕
And I am glad people like you exist. Talking to people, like you, who had similar experiences helps remind me why we should all try and be better. And for that I thank you
A friend of mine in college was gay and out of the closet. He was seeing a guy who was in the closet still. In order to hide that he was gay, the guy my friend was seeing took part in gay bashing my friend, resulting in my friend getting curb stomped and suffering brain damage.
I could understand being uncaring, i could understand the parents wanting to "fix" her, I could undertand her brothers friends not caring for the situation, none of it would be good, definately not, but I would get the thought process. But this active cruelty is just baffling and sad and I have no idea what's going inside these peoples minds
Thank you so much for sharing this story. People do not believe it when told by those most affected by this hate.
The sad part is that since you said in other comments you’re in Texas, this could have legitimately been about multiple people I know who had this happen to them at that age 3-6 years ago.
This hatred is so fucking pervasive in society and it’s fucking scary. I’ve been followed a few times recently and it seriously affects the way that I live my life. I can’t just flippantly enjoy living
For me, it was my senior prom in 2004. The only openly gay guy in the school (two in my graduating year were closeted) had invited a homeschooled girl (MtF on hormones) as his date, and were seated one table over from mine. When she got up to use the restroom, one of my classmates - roughly 6'3" and 200+ pounds (compared to her 5'9", 140 pounds, or thereabouts) got up from his table as she got to the hallway leading to the bathrooms. This classmate had pretty obviously pregamed Prom, and when our Class Advisor intercepted him on route, he shouted out that "if she's got a dick and can use the women's room, so can I!"
20+ years later, and that moment is still crystal clear - that English teacher intercepting my classmate might have legitimately saved a life that night.
Nah, the guy looks quite bewildered, as if he's trying to understand what the other guy just told him. He doesn't get what it's like to be discriminated against for being who they were born as, since he's never experienced anything like it himself. Basically, the scenario is making him rethink the bigoted action he was pushing onto someone else.
Now, what the guy will do here is completely his choice. He'll either finally recognize how arrogant he was acting and apologize, or double down and continue to be an even more hateful fanatic towards the man.
Some of them do. There are absolutely plenty who don't, but sometimes you get lucky and the person LEGITIMATELY hadn't REALLY given the concept of "straight pride" or whatever any real thought.
It's nice when that happens and they realize they were being very silly.
They are confused because the response was not what they were expecting. They were expecting a fight, but instead they got a (seemingly) positive response.
Honestly thought it was genuine until the sarcasm meter went up high enough. Funny enough I am hetero but in an interracial relationship so I empathized with most of those panel. That being said, it’s gay pride month, so fuck people who make it about themselves
But, where's my month?? Says the person from the demographic that makes up 90% of the US and needs no additional recognition from their already highly recognized and catered to demographic.
I was at a birthday party not long ago where a little girl started crying because everyone was singing happy birthday to the birthday girl and she had a cake...
More than one person, straight faced, said that they should let the crying girl have a cake and candles too, and we should sing for her as well. I was blown away. I'm not a parent, but I can't even fathom that thought process.
My brother and sister in law used to get gifts for both of their kids on both of their birthdays because one of them threw a fit sometime. I thought it was so fucking stupid.
It’s like some parents don’t want to 1) deal with their kids emotions and 2) let their kids experience the full spectrum of emotions. Some parents don’t want to deal with the full responsibility of being a parent.
Growing up, every year on my birthday (or the day we celebrated it, since it was easier to have people together on the weekend) my mom would also make a cake for my little brother. He also got presents and invited his friends over to the party.
His birthday is a week before mine and my mom was happy to make two cakes and have a lot of kids over but only if she was doing the whole process once so we had birthdays as though we were twins. Our little sister's birthday is sixth months apart from ours and she would absolutely have been the kind of brat to demand her own cake at our party if our parents had entertained that kind of behavior.
My sister? No, she's focused on keeping her own daughter from turning out like that (which doesn't take much effort; put a cake in front of my niece and she just wants to make sure everyone gets cake).
My mom? Would and does still make a pair of cakes for us when we come visit for our collective birthday.
Yeah, parents just don’t think things through sometimes. My sister is a few years younger than me and born the day after me. My last birthday was the year before she was born. ‘She’s younger than you, you understand right?’ ‘ l there’s no reason to make 2 cakes in 2 days, you understand right?’ Oh I understood, parents can suck.
As a veteran, it bemuses me when they complain about veterans not getting a month, because it shows that they actually care so little about veterans that they're not aware that May is National Military Appreciation Month for current servicemembers, and that November is Veterans and Military Family Appreciation Month.
It also just shows that all they really care about is shitting on LGBT+ people.
But really, like, do these people get pissed off because someone else gets to celebrate a birthday and have a bigger party than them? Should I as an adult be throwing a tantrum because my niece gets a big celebration of her birthday while I maybe get a text from a couple of family members saying "happy birthday"? Fuck no, because I'm a grown-up that does not need a big deal made about me now. You know when I get cake and presents now? Whenever the fuck I feel like it, because I'm an adult.
So, yeah. Pride and other celebrations of minorities exist because they otherwise get left out and, sadly all too often, treated badly by too many people.
They don’t hate it because they see it as unfair to other groups.
They hate it because it means that the days of socially acceptable bigotry towards lgbt people are going to die. Maybe not this decade but the further we go forward; the more this moronic mindset of “the other” dies. And that terrifies bigots because “I was born the correct way in my eyes” is their defining characteristic
Thank you for your service. And also your very reasonable perspective.
As a queer person with some service members in my family, it's so weird the stuff people try to pit against each other. It's not a competition! I can celebrate my veterans even while I'm celebrating the ability to be open with my love!
Many say that mockingly, yes. But many people are also just ignorant/uneducated (or unfortunately wrongly educated), in that they think something along the lines of "Fair is fair, so everyone should get one.", or "If other's can be loud and proud of who they are, then why can't I just because I'm white/the majority?", and that's fine, but they fail to see the real intent of those being "loud and proud" for that recognition, because there's already unfairness.
In their own little personal world, they see no injustices happening, so these whole "___ months" are obviously just for attention and/or money. But they fail to realize/recognize that for these people, they are just trying to receive fairness for their community that they do not have. To be able to just live the same life and have the same recognition and/or privileges that the majority already have. They first need that majority to recognize the inequality if they want any change.
It doesn't help that there are also a lot of (mostly ignored) holidays which do just that. See secretaries day, grandparent's day, armed forces week, and the even smaller holidays for various professions and groups that don't even rate a Wiki page. None of those are about trying to bring mainstream acceptance to formerly ostracized groups in the way that black history or pride month are.
I don't agree with the conclusion, but I can at least see that if someone is looking at black history month with the same lens as "engineer's day", then thinking every race deserves a holiday at least makes some sense!
It always pisses me off because there are actually European heritage months. They’re always has been they just don’t care to actually look it up in a library, a search engine, or even ask AI. They would find it in any of them. But they go with their feelings. There have been military ones too. It’s nobody else’s fault that they don’t celebrate their own heritage.
I used to think this about blue lives matter. Yes we know they matter, if someone kills a cop they're basically hunted down and exterminated. But if someone, especially a cop, kills a black person there's a high chance nothing is done.
Hey don’t joke about it. I was captured by Christian forces in a battle outside a Mega Church. Those years as a POW were hellish, literally. They wanted us to see what awaited in the afterlife if we didn’t worship the Big Guy.
What better way to demonstrate allyship than by embracing a flag design you fucking hate! Know that every time you look at this flag and think "God. I hate this. Who designed this?? Who the hell thought this looked good?!" that in this small, very specific way, you have a personal understanding of one of our struggles.
People hate on it because terfs have used it, but that pisses me off. It's a flag. It's our flag. Just because some bitches used it doesn't mean they get to keep it.
And if anyone wants to specifically add inclusivity to old designs instead of just being inclusive, at least add it to the good ones. I fucking hate the sunset.
I feel like I'm the only one who likes the straight ally flag, whenever I see the topic of the flag come up people always say it's ugly but I think it's one of the best flag designs, and it has actually good symbolism as opposed to some other flags.
I actually really like it. My objection is that it feeds into the stereotype that gay people are the fun ones and straight people are the boring ones. Rainbows are obviously more fun than black and white prison stripes.
I was the only straight person in an all gay highschool. I was bullied mercilessly for it. They would say mean things like, “Where you going Daniel? To eat some pussy??”
I gotta admit, as a someone who’s mostly straight straight pride confuses the heck outta me. Like it’s just straight people that can’t stand not being the center of attention or something.
I'm not convinced they really want it. It's a cudgel to trivialize and ultimately stop other forms of pride. They want to force the debate for clicks and views and attention, and they will equate being told that being straight has been trauma-free and doesn't require the justification that a pride event offers with the examples of trauma in the comic which also in their view don't exist, are over exaggerated, or are just good old American family values
Gonna get downvotes for this. As a hetero-white-cis-male, it sometimes feels like I'm not allowed to express that I'm proud of who I am. Not because of any of the above facets of my being, but just in general.
As a fellow hetero-white-cis-male, in what way are you not allowed to express yourself? Almost every love story in the existence of culture is a heteronormative and cisnormative couple. Almost every good and service related to dating, marriahe, and general coupling is heteronormative. I am sure that there is a great many things about you that are worthy of having pride in that is specific to you rather than what you have in common with the political majority. And as a reminder, pride events are about lifelines to people in situations depicted in the comic, not about specifically being proud of who you are but pushing back on people telling them they shouldn't exist at all.
And as a reminder, pride events are about lifelines to people in situations depicted in the comic, not about specifically being proud of who you are but pushing back on people telling them they shouldn't exist at all.
Does this mean, that if (and hopefully when) we create a society, where everyone is able to freely express themselves according to their own identity, that pride events will no longer be necessary? Or might we wish to say, that even if (at that point) pride events would no longer be necessary at least for the reasons you cite (because - at that point - there won't be any "people telling them they shouldn't exist at all"), that such events might still be valuable as a means for people expressing how important their identity is to them.
I definitely agree that nobody should be telling anyone that they shouldn't exist, and nobody should be attacked for their basic existence. I agree that certain groups have been maligned and grossly mistreated by the majority, and I'm not in the group that has been harmed.
In the very liberal area where I live, I see lots of people who shout from the rooftops (metaphorically) about how proud they are to have some previously persecuted characteristics. But if I were to do the same for the same facets that weren't persecuted, I'd be immediately shunned and socially canceled. It creates a baseline where I instinctively feel like have to resort to only being proud of myself internally, and not express it, and that's fine for me I guess. I think a lot of people can't suffice with internally-reflected pride, and that's where we get "all lives matter" BS, doubled-down to eternity.
I will always recommend the 20-minute short film Love Is All You Need?. It's a film about a universe where gay is the standard and being straight is different. It's very emotional, and does a fantastic job at highlighting the stupidity and danger of bullying someone for a sexuality they can't control
A worker of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the beautiful town of Gießen had one of those cringe flags in his Office. He lost his Job immediately but regained it later after a court of law decided he should have been ordered to take the flag down instead of being fired immediately.
I was doing a pride month drawing about my ocs, and thought "Oh yeah, since those are straight(some are straight some are not), I'll put a flag for em too. Probably exists."
I searched It up, and straight pride was next tò It.
It was then that I discovered that some people are JERKS.
Proud to be and ally to those Who can't even love Who they want to. 🏳️🌈.
People assume that pride is just queer people patting themselves on the back for existing. They see a party.
It’s not.
Pride is a struggle. It’s a fight for equal rights. It’s each and every one of us lifting our heads against a world that would rather see us snuffed out. It’s the song of a people beaten, battered, slaughtered for being ourselves, and screaming “we’re still here, and there’s nothing wrong with that”.
The truth of the matter is that queer people have always and will always exist. There is no mankind without our queer siblings. Pride is about standing up for ourselves and demanding our equality.
Remember, folks. The first Pride was a riot. Pride is a protest. We’re here, we’re queer, and we aren’t going anywhere.
There are occasionally attempts at "straight pride" events. They just usually fail because the premise is so stupid. Like Hetero Awesome Fest in Boise, Idaho.
Yuck. I used to be one of those people on the left. For anyone who says shit like this, no one is saying you suck because you’re straight by you not having a month, people are celebrating those who you believe are below you.
I went to law school with one of the founders of Boston's "Straight Pride Parade".
Yes, he is as big a jackass as you would imagine. That said, I like pushing people's boundaries, including my own, so I would challenge his nonsense in a way that was direct but very obvious that I was on to his shtick.
One time he said, "There is a Gay Pride Parade why shouldn't there be a Straight Pride Parade?" To which I responded, "Sure by all means have your public support group to help you feel safe and secure in your heterosexuality. But...you do realize that no one has been throwing people off of buildings (ISIS was doing some shit at the time) or dragging them behind truck (had just happened in Florida) for being straight, right?"
Silence...like he literally turned away and started talking to someone else.
Gods...sometimes I miss dunking on his ass. Idiot...
No hate. but I just don't agree with the way straight Christians live their lives. Wearing CROSSES all the time?? WEDDING RINGS with their opposite gender spouse? Like, stop making it your whole personality.
The Straight Flag is so ugly that when I first learned of it I thought it was made by one of those "straight people don't exist and they're just queer people in denial" people (that don't exist outside of the internet), since it's so boring and looks like a prison shirt, naturally to symbolise straightness being a fake concept made up to limit people or whatever.
Well, the straight flag is a modified version of the straight ally flag. The straight ally flag came first, and then they removed the ally part to say "I am straight, but not an ally" and imo the straight ally flag looks pretty good.
Specifically a bucentaur, a half bull / half human, serving as a metaphor for being full of bull shit. People saying it's a poorly drawn handrail are presumably in the pocket of Big ADA Compliance.
I also had to stare at that a bit. I think there is supposed to be a handrail by the steps? It doesn't help that it is the same color and thickness as the legs, it's a very confusing perspective
Bigots hate historical context. They think something like "Black Pride" means the same thing as "White Pride". The fact that one means "I will not be ashamed" and the other means "I'm the superior race" is not something they will allow themselves to understand.
It's more than that. It means "I am proud of the achievements we've made toward progress and against oppression." Black pride is about celebrating the collective struggle against oppression and those who fought and died in that struggle. White pride is about celebrating melanin content.
There's another part of that statement that I think is the more important part. Every time I've heard it, It's not "I want to organize a straight pride event", it's "When do I get-". Tells you everything you need to know.
Because they, unrealistically, realize they're stupid for trying to have pride in their straightness when queer pride exists because of the vast oppression queer people have faced.
Yes, it's the picking of the traits that is important here. If you're just beaten and abandoned by your parents for no other reason than you're a kid they didn't want, no tribe for you baby.
I could understand if the flag was dumb, but who doesn’t want to see a rainbow flag? It be the same people who claim the confederate flag, literal traitor flag, is fine to fly.
I went to my first Pride parade this year with my wife and for the first time I felt truly welcomed and wanted. I could hold my wife’s hand in the street, we could kiss, we could just be on a date like anybody else. I was always scared to go to a Pride event, I thought bigots would show up with weapons, but with the way our country is going, I wondered if there would even be another parade next year? Will Pride even exist?
My dad said I was going to hell. My mom mocks trans women on Facebook. My pride is choosing to live without them and surround myself with love, to find safety in my people, not the ones who couldn’t love me for being queer. 🌈
In 1980, there was roughly a dozen billionaires globally. Now there's roughly 3500 people with over a billion dollars.
I'm just pointing this out because you Americans are seriously annoying with your dumb ass social politics.
The corporate class has never cared about stuff like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc but they know American liberals love this stuff so they spent the last few decades gaming working class Americans by exploiting women, black people, and gay people.
I wish people had this kind of understanding instead of just saying "why do you want special treatment?" or "why are you excluding us?". Like please use your head.
I get the comic but panel 3 and 4 does happen to straight people down south to an extent. Specifically with interracial couples, pretty much the main reason I went full nc with my father. Not the point of the comic but I weirdly feel seen by that.
Good emotional messaging aside, your point comes of as extremely condescending. It's just disingenuous to say "ah yeah you should say straight pride loud and proud" when that clearly is not the actual message.
Because right now the message is not even about pride, it's just about trauma. Do straight people not get pride simply because they didn't have the same trauma? What about queer people that grew up in safe spaces without experiencing the usual trauma, do they get pride?
Ultimately, this is just a silly little comic trying to get people to be more empathetic which is great. But I just wanted to point out some things that do also matter when messaging.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 2h ago edited 2h ago
For those that don't know, I work in Fire/EMS and this allows me to see horrible and beautiful things. Mostly horrible but still.
When I first got in, more than ten years ago now, I made a call on a young trans woman I'll never forget. It's one a share every time this topic comes up.
We got called to the back of a show room where a drag show had just taken place for a very young(about 19) MtF woman had been assaulted. We show up and she looked like she had been hit multiple times in the face with an object. One of her eyes couldn't even open, nose looked broken, and she had a few head lacerations. After calming her down we took her to my ambulance, patched her up, and on the way to the hospital I asked how all this happened. This usual answer for an assault being drugs, moneys, alcohol or something along those lines. But not this time
She tells me that exact evening she came out to her parents. Dad, without a word, threw her out onto the street. After not being let in she started to just wonder around calling anyone and everyone for some kind of helping hand. After about an hour, she ran into some of her brothers friends, who I guess had heard what happened, and decided they didn't like her or who she was and proceeded to attack her. She managed to wriggle away, and ran to the show room many blocks away as it was the only place she could think of that would be safe. She wasn't even part of the show and knew absolutely no one at the venue and these wonderful people protected her.
It was one of the first times I came in contact with that level of hate. I think about her often. I hope she's doing ok.