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Loading ...Weekend vigils around US to honor slain gay teens
Vigils will be held on Sunday across the country to honor the lives of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado of Puerto Rico and Jason “Jaysen” Mattison Jr.
Both teens were brutally slain in separate instances last week.
These are the vigils we could find – please add others or additional information in the comments. 365gay will attend the NYC vigil and report back here on Monday (or you can check the live Twitter coverage at http://www.Twitter.com/JenniferVanasco).Abilene, TX – 5:30PM, ACU campus, next to GATA fountain [Facebook link]
Amherst, MA – MONDAY 11/23 – 6:30PM, Food For Thought Books [Facebook link]
Boston – 7PM, Trinity Church, Copley Plaza [Facebook link]
Chicago – 4PM, Division and California, procession to Humboldt Park Boat House [Facebook link]
Durham, NC – 6PM, Corcoran St, CCB Plaza [Facebook link] (Event previously said Saturday, this will occur with the others on Sunday)
Los Angeles – 8PM, Santa Monica and San Vicente [Facebook link]
New York – 5 p.m., Christopher St. Pier 45
Oakland – 3:30PM, MacArthur and Lakeshore/Grand Ave [Facebook link]
Philadelphia – FRIDAY, Nov. 20. 6:30 PM, Church of St. Luke & The Epiphany, 330 South 13th St.
San Antonio, TX – 8PM, Crockett Park
San Francisco – 7PM, Castro and Market [Facebook link]
Terre Haute, IN – FRI 11/20 – 6:30PM, Indiana State, DeDe Plaza [Facebook link]
Dallas – Sunday 11/22 @ 6pm Cedar Springs and Oaklawn
Given the latest information about the nature of Jorge’s death (gender identity/expression related violence) – people should recognize this violence at TONIGHT’s Transgender Day of Remembrance events.
All of this is beutiful as far as the prayers we all are sending up on behalf of thesewho have been murdered. However we all must take greater efforts to watch as well as pray. We also begin praying proactively rather than rtroactively.Let us not any longer have the mind set of wating until things become soap and lampshades before we do something about it. May God grant us the grace we need to be aware and remain alive all of the time among all of the people.
Ill be in San Antonio at crockett park at 8pm. I would hope who ever is able to to do so, organize something in there home town tomorrow.