Following a series of recent gay bashings in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, people took to the streets over the weekend for a "Take Back the Night" rally meant to send a signal to those perpetuating violence against the city's LGBT community.
KOMO news reports: "The latest attack came a week ago near 13th Avenue and Columbia Street, about a block from the Seattle University campus. Forty-one-year-oldJerry Knight was on his way home when two men confronted him. And nowhe says the horror of that weekend might always haunt him. 'Iremember being hit hard, where I fell and my hands were bruised fallingdirectly on the ground,' he said Saturday in an interview. He acknowledges it could have been worse.'Iam grateful,' he says. 'I am grateful I did not wake up in thehospital. I am grateful I am not in a coffin. I know that, and honorthat.' He says he was attacked by two men as he walked homealone in the early morning hours. The assault was first reported onlineby The Stranger newspaper."
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