GLOV Anti-Violence Meeting September 22nd

Concerned community members met on Monday, September 8th to discuss both recent hate crimes in the District of Columbia and our community response. Recent incidents include the attack on three gay men in Adams Morgan, the attack on two gay men in Logan outside of Playbill, and the attack on two gay men on their way to BeBar Present at the meeting were two members of GLOV, a GLBT Anti-Violence Group that was active in the 1990's Tracy Conaty and Tom Donegan.

Participants in the group heard about the important anti-violence work GLOV used to do including: victim advocacy, running a hotline, publishing an annual hate crimes report, creating literature on hate crimes and safety tips. Those of us that were at the meeting are looking at bringing back GLOV and resuming some of this work. Our next meeting will be facilitated by Chris Farris and Todd Metrokin.

Our meeting will take place Monday September 22nd at the Law offices of Dewey and LeBoeuf, 1101 New York Avenue, NW beginning at 7:30 PM.