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By Rex Wockner International News Report Gay Male Murdered in Vancouver's Stanley Park
A gay man was found beaten to death November 17 in
Vancouver's Stanley Park, one of North America's
cruisiest locations.
In an apparent hate crime, Aaron Webster, 41, was beaten with probably a baseball bat by three or four assailants, police said. "This has all the earmarks of an attack that was prompted by the man's sexual orientation," said spokesman Scott Dreimal. No suspects have been identified. Four witnesses to the assault said it was too dark to make out anything about the attackers. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that if Webster's murder was anti-gay in nature, it would be the first such death in British Columbia history. On November 18, nearly 2,000 gays marched through the West End, Vancouver's gayest neighborhood, which abuts the huge, well-known park, chanting, "Justice will be done." According to the gay newspaper Xtra! West, it was Vancouver's largest-ever gay protest. "It was on par with the [1981] bathhouse raids in Toronto or the San Francisco community's response after [gay city supervisor] Harvey Milk was murdered," said longtime activist Don Hann. Mexico City Considers Domestic Partner Measure
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