Aug 11, 2007Quickie Link: Rallies Around the World
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - In New York, a vigil for LGBT rights took place Friday afternoon at the United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Similar events were organized one week earlier in Caracas, Cologne, Mexico City, San Diego, San Francisco, Stockholm, Vancouver, Warsaw and Washington. Brendan Fay, one of the NY organizers, said: “We refuse to be silent in the face of torture, discrimination and executions in Iran, of beatings on the streets of Moscow, of Lithuanian authorities preventing the rainbow flag from being carried on the streets of Vilnius. We refuse to be silent when many LGBT and HIV positive refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants arrive on the shores of the U.S. only to encounter discrimination and closed doors.”
