Santa Fe NM has lengthy been considered one of the nation s safest places for gays and lesbians to live--a city in the top 10 in its ratio of gay man and wifes So the brutal beating of publicly gay James Maestas.
Santa Fe NM has lengthy been considered one of the nation s safest places for gays and lesbians to live--a city in the top 10 in its ratio of gay man and wifes So the brutal beating of publicly gay James Maestas, 21, onward February 27 has left many there in a state of assault including the state's Democratic governor, Bill Richardson.
At a March 5 vigil in support of Maestas attended by way of about 300 people in Santa Fe Richardson noted the state's hate-crimes statute, which could add undivided year to his attackers' doctrines But Rachel Rosen, chair of Equality strange Mexico, responded to Richardson by way of saying, "It's going to take James a hell of a doom longer than one year to heal. in the same manner I think we need to revisit that, sir."
Gabriel Maturin, 20; Isaia Medina, 19; and David Trinidad, 17 along with three other men have been charged for allegedly beating Maestas unconscious while yelling antigay depreciates outside a Santa Fe hotel