Good job organizing that in support and I will be there.

I wonder what the responses would have been if the had happen in Jamaica or some other Caribbean country?

UPDATE

It will now start at 5PM at Hudson Pier 45 at Christopher St

I don't understand what you're getting at. I started this movement on my own, and it has grown into something amazing. My response would have been exactly, exactly the same if this happened anywhere else in the world.

Horrifying!!!

Perhaps the police investigator had some connection as he was quoted as suggesting, "that he deserved what he got because of the 'type of lifestyle' he was leading'.

Just sick.

My heart & prayers go out to him and his family. We're also holding a vigil on the 22nd here in West Hollywood.

If this HAD happened in Jamaica, the persons responsible would have the support of the government, since the Jamaican government not only allows but supports the murder of homosexuals.

I'm in Southern California.

But my heart will be THERE!

Let's just hope and pray that it NEVER happends again, PERIOD!

Thank you Scott, your humanity is evident in what is happening here...

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This is ridiculous!!! People should be able live their lives however they want without being afraid of some ignorant asshole harming let alone killing them for whatever reasons. This is just like the Teena Brandon case in 1999 where the detectives paid no mind to her because she was transgender and she ended up dead days later. Or what about Eddie "Gwen" Araujo who was also brutally beaten to death and lawyers suggested she caused her death by living the life she lived and to this very day neither of her assailants were charged with a hate crime...something has to be done

5PM at Hudson Pier 45 at Christopher St...is that def. comfirmed...?...will def. be there with my crew

We are also hosting a vigil in Oakland, CA on Sunday at sunset. We are drawing connection between sexualized violence, colonization, and militarization, the crossing of borders, and the policing of genders. We will be gathering after wards for a healing space with friends. Much love and respect from the Bay Area.

I'm far away, but my heart will be there too.

Where in Oakland, CA?

These people should be nailed to the heavens for this. I mean, there's a difference between kicking someone's ass or being an asshole to them.. but going to this extreme shows that someone is not only mentally disturbed against gay people, but against humanity. Someone cannot do something like this without really being damaged in deep places that likely will never heal. I pity them, because they have already given up any ounce or prayer of being a real human again after this. Their nights will always be haunted by his face, his screams, and the parts left behind from the mutilation and partial burning. There are few things that are truely monsterous in our current day and age, but this is certainly one of them.

But the bigger travesty will be if this murder is not treated as the hate crime that it is and tried under the new Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act. If this gets swept under the rug as just a crime I challenge the entire LGBT community to make their voices heard!!!
I just posted the news story on CNN iReport since they neglected to cover it at all.

I am musican living in Queens ny and as soon as I read the unfortunate new I was outranged!!!. Now more than ever is a time to not only reflect on all the work we have a head of us but also to unite and demand our rights as human beings. All of us are constantly harrased,rediculed in our jobs,communities and to some extent and as a victim myself we all have to stand up to the plate and do our part as individuals and as a hole. There is not one day that I'am fighting for my rights and with the rights of many others in mind. One by one we will not only achieve our rights but we will also insure that our rights are protected!!!!!

im soooo outraged people should live and let live that could have been your son or daughter enough is enough love everyone for who they are god bless

This should be handled under the Mathew Shepherd Act. Puerto Rico is a unincorporated territory of the United States! The ACLU is trying to get this "uped" to a hate crime, but the US gov won't do it.

There will be a vigil in Lubbock Texas!!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

6:15pm - 7:15pm

611 University Ave # 220 Lubbock, TX 79401-2285

A former New Yorker here, and absolutely disgusted and revolted by this barbaric crime. Ignorance and prejudice is the enemy of all of us. Gay, Straight, or Bi
My heartfelt sympathy to the Mercado family and to all who have suffered at the hands of bigots.

I am very happy that organized this! Yet at the same time appalled that you are using the terms the queer community or "for the gay guy murdered" do you not have respect for people and for the community in which we have?

I am Shockedddddddd and outragged and angry!!! I am late but I am sending my love non the less! I could'nt make it but may my prayers and my love fly across the sea to the family's heart RIP beautiful Rainbow child!!! Laurent Taylor TBG