By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Nov 23 | Last night in New York City thousands of people gathered to attend a vigil in memory of the murdered Gay Puerto Rican college student held at Pier 46 on Christopher Street in the West Village. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an out lesbian, said:
"The attack against any American because of their sexual orientation or gender identity is unacceptable, and will be prosecuted to the highest and fullest extent of the law."
Her call for justice was joined by other community leaders including Jarrett Barrios of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, who called for the murder to be prosecuted as an anti-gay hate crime under the recently passed Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Act.
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