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This weekend, a young man smashed a window, assaulted a staff member, and threatened to come back and kill someone at Casa Ruby, the LGBTQ center and shelter in Washington, D.C. led by Latina trans activist Ruby Corado.
This is the third instance of violence at Casa Ruby in three weeks, and it’s the latest in a string of attacks against LGBT centers and transgender communities. The attacker has been arrested.
Casa Ruby joins several other LGBTQ centers nationwide who have been the subject of anti-LGBTQ vandalism in recent weeks. Last week, security cameras at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, caught 13 shots being fired at the center’s front windows and door. Prior to that, the Garden State Equality Center in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Orlando’s Equality Florida office were also subject to vandalism.
Washington, D.C., was also the home of Deeniquia Dodds, a transgender woman who was shot on July 4, during a robbery and died nine days later. A grand jury recently indicted three men involved in the shooting on hate crime charges.
This is terrifying. Casa Ruby is raising money to rebuild and recover; send a few dollars their way if you can.
