Brutal hate crimes at UCR—Have you heard about it? Because I hadn't.

Did you know that two students were recently attacked at UC Riverside, on the basis of their sexuality? I hadn't, and that's a big problem. An important element to our activism has to be proactively sharing information. To that end, I'm going to post this blog entry onto my facebook. Sharing information will help us be aware of these kinds of happenings as well as help us combat the environment that permits or encourages them. Any other ideas? I think we also need to be critical of the media which ignores stories like this. There has been a lot of important discussion about racism recently, surrounding the events at UCSD, but why have there not been discussions about queerphobia sparked by this brutal attack? Or from the vandalism of the UCD LGBT Center? Or from the silencing of protestors at UCI? And where are the discussions about the links between all of these events?