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Laura Ann Carleton was 66 years old.
Carleton, who preferred to be called "Lauri," did not identify as LGBTQ herself but spent time helping and advocating for everyone.
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#destiel meme#destiel meme news#united states#us news#california#lgbt#lgbtq community#lgbtq#queer community#queer#laura ann carleton#this is ultimately a hate crime even if lauri carleton herself was not queer#lauri carleton#hate crimes tw#homophobia#tw death#hate crime tw#hate crime mention#homophobia tw#gay rights
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The guy who killed a woman over a rainbow flag has been identified.
Surprise- he was your typical homophobic christian republican.
You can see a thread of them here.
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Laura Ann Carleton, or "Lauri" as she was ofthen refeared to, on the 18th of August was murdered by a man, most likely because she had hung a pride flag by the entrance of her shop. (This information is backed up by the fact that her murderer was caught ripping the pride flag off of her shop before the attack, and he also had an anti lgbtq+ history.)
Lauri was NOT, I repeat, she WAS NOT a part of the Lgbtqai+ community. She was a straight, cis woman.
She was the victim of a hate crime against a group she wasn't even a part of.
Homophobia and transphobia hurt not only people who fall under the lgbtqai+ umbrella but many others as well.
Just a few months before Laura's death, underage cis girls were sexually assaulted after being accused of being trans.
I don't want their sacrifices to be forgotten. They suffered at the hands of people who pretend to protect people like them.
Please read more about these crimes (if you can take it, of course; I can't take everything either) and tell people about them.
Violent hate will affect everyone, not just the ones it's "supposed to be" directed at.
Rest in peace, Laura Ann Carleton. I hope one day I can have a chance to draw you in person, on the other side.
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Tributes are pouring in for a “beloved” California business owner who was shot dead by a man who complained about a Pride flag hanging at her store.
The unnamed individual killed Laura Ann Carleton, 66, at her business Mag Pi clothing store after making “several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store," the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies responded to the incident around 5pm on Friday following reports of shots being fired. The mother of nine children was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
The shooter fled the scene on foot but was later located by authorities near Torrey Road and Rause Rancho Road. The suspect, who has not been identified, was killed during “a lethal force encounter” with police.
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Why is the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office protecting this murderer's identity? It's been three days.
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my therapist has a pride lego set. its absolutely terrifying to imagine that this same sort of horrific hate crime could also happen to her - or to anyone who has pride flags displayed in their office in general. this is the result of fascists. homophobia and transphobia is a disease that kills.
rest in peace lauri carleton.
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An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn't identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. But she spent time helping and advocating for everyone and was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting, the group said.
This is why "agree to disagree" and "tolerate other viewpoints" doesn't work with homophobes, transphobes, terfs, and other bigots. They want to murder the LGBTQIA+ community and anyone who supprts them.
No, not every homophobe, transphobe, or terf would use a gun to do so. Most would likely say they don't think people should be murdered. But they'll also say they don't think people should be allowed to marry people of the same sex, transition, or publicly portray Pride flags. They want LGBTQIA+ people to simply disappear.
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On Friday, Laura "Lauri" Ann Carleton was shot and killed because she displayed a Pride flag outside her store in California. She was 66 years old and had nine children. She did not identify as a member of the queer community, but, according to articles, was remembered by queer Californians as an ally.
As much as this news broke my heart and angered me, it brings me further heartbreak to admit it didn't come as a surprise. With the rise in anti-LGBT attacks and legislature recently, it was only a matter of time before a news story like this appeared. I don't mean to sound cynical or dismissive at all, but this is what the rise in severe right-wing ideology of the past few years is seeking to accomplish. When it's enforced that a group of people is "undesirable," that they and their allies must be erased, then people will die. For all that "think of the children" rhetoric, nine children are now left without a mother.
Chances are, given Tumblr's majority queer and left-leaning userbase, you may already know all this, and the danger that is facing our community. But no matter how terrifying things get, we have to fight back. The suspect who murdered Lauri did so because they were trying to erase queer acceptance, and make queer people afraid to express themselves. Laws that are being passed to force schools to deadname trans children are trying to do the same thing. We can't let them win; we need to keep expressing ourselves for the sakes of our own lives, and our queer ancestors who fought for our rights, and the next generation of queer people after us.
If you live in a place where you can't express your queerness openly for your own safety, my heart goes out to you, and I want you to know that you have friends and allies no matter how alone you feel. Keep existing, even out of spite if you have to. If you're able to donate or protest, donate or protest. If you can't, you can still find other ways to support the community- sitting down and talking to people can help immensely. Read up on local, statewide, and federal candidates before elections, and vote. We're sticking together, for Lauri's sake and for the people she advocated for. We can't let her death be in vain.
#queer#lgbt#lauri ann carleton#laura ann carleton#california#homophobia cw#hate crime cw#current events#united states#us news#mag pi
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This is why you can’t be polite with MAGAts. They are killers and we are the prey. Black, brown, lgbt, Dem, migrant, how many of us will die before we stand up and crush the RepubliKKKans. There must never be another one of them in office again.
Vote, protest, do whatever you can to stop this reign of terror once and for all.
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Lauri Carleton was an active ally for the LGBT community and she was murdered for displaying and defending the pride flag outside her store in California on Friday night (8/18/23)
Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” is survived by her husband and nine children in a blended family. She owned and operated the Mag.Pi clothing store in Cedar Glen. The unincorporated community in the San Bernadino Mountains is roughly 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.
An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn’t identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but spent time helping and advocating for everyone and was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting.
#homophobia#transphobia#thank you for your bravery and support Lauri 🤍 this isn’t fair to anyone#she was 66
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TW: queerphobic, violence, fun violence, murder
And no one was surprised.
I'm already seeing a lot of ableism, a lot of talk about needing to address "the mental health problem" in this country. I'm also seeing a lot of comments about "both sides".
And I have only this to say in response: fuck you.
I wonder what it will take, how far things will go, before the majority of people are willing to admit the truth:
The constant attacks on trans rights, on drag, on education, the homophobia, the "groomer" panic, the murder of Lauri Carleton--all of these things are connected. This is Christian fascism in action.
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The alleged shooter frequently shared anti-LGBTQ propaganda on social media, including using the image of a burning Pride flag as his pinned tweet
Last weekend, 66-year-old San Bernardino resident Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton was shot and killed in front of her store in Lake Arrowhead, California. She is survived by her nine children. Her alleged killer was a 27-year-old man whom she confronted while he tried to tear down the Progress Pride flags in front of her shop.
The man who pulled the trigger against Carleton was later killed in a fatal shootout with police, but the people who helped load his brain with homicidal rage remain free. Nobody is born full of fury at the Pride flag. This rage was learned.
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To hell with the New York Times's top 25 commercial/luxurious travel experiences. You can have your own. Here's some of mine, and reflecting on them makes me feel quite replete and not in need of any gourmet well-beaten trails. I hope you have yours.
--travel the pilgrimage trail of St. Jacques de Compostelle from Paris to the Spanish border as a teenage art historian, with the great Mme Francoise Weinman interpreting, 1978.
--bathe in a bathtub on a hillside on Western Shoshone land above matriarchs and federal challengers Mary and Carry Dann's ranch in eastern Nevada while listening to Lucinda Williams for the first time (music courtesy of Lauri Di, who then gave me the homemade cassette), 1991.
--raft trip on assignment for Sierra Magazine, 1995, in a roadless wilderness the size of Portugal in NE British Columbia, where the whole community of wildlife was living its many lives largely undisturbed.
--Dance all night in the streets of Paris, Fete de la Musique, circa 1998, be serenaded by Timothy O'Toole's brother with Marianne Faithful's "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" in parting. (Research for Wanderlust was the official reason to be there.)
--Seattle Nov. 30-Dec. 1, when the protest in the streets galvanized the poor countries to resist the World Trade Organization's bullying on behalf of the rich corporations and countries and the fate of the world took a left turn. "When hope and history rhyme." Thank you David Solnit, who had a lot to do with it.
--Hike with Lucy Lippard to the remote valley whose entrance is framed by two great natural stone slabs on each of which a life-sized cornstalk petroglyph appears; take Barry Lopez to see the life-size bear petroglyph nearby and the giant zig-zag snake petroglyphs, get drenched in a monsoon rain together, New Mexico circa 1999-2001 or so
--Multiple times participating in the Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo, NM, circa 1998-2010, witnessing the landscape, the devotion and dedication, the generosity, and the low-rider Cadillac of the stations of the cross.
--find the exact places Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston stood to make their iconic pictures of Yosemite with Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (in what became our book Yosemite in Time), and camp out in the supremely serene jeffrey pine forest south of Mono Lake while working on the project, 2001-4
--repeat visits to New Orleans to first understand the terrible things of Hurricane Katrina and then fall in love with the wonderful culture and dance in various second lines, etc., 2006 onward....
--Zapatista Women's Encuentro, late Dec.-January 1, Chiapas, Mexico, with Marina Sitrin and Sam Sitrin
--Iceland, summer of 2008 (partly melancholy, but studded with epiphanies): "I traveled a little, and on the south coast of Iceland had one magnificent midsummer day that began with a long walk on a path edged with tiny flowers past the largest glacier in Europe, went on to a bay in which the glacier was calving icebergs that were vivid blue in a blue inlet of the sea, and then traversed a long strand of wet sand that reflected the white clouds and blue sky so that heaven and earth were indistinguishable, and the clouds overhead seemed to be almost close enough to touch and those near the horizon seemed to be very near infinity. It was as close to a vision of paradise as I’ve been granted with my eyes open. After that I saw another bay full of hundreds of swans and a steep valley through which dozens of thin waterfalls trickled and poured from the heights. That day ended at a robin’s nest Klara showed me in the low willows in the quiet light at midnight, five small mottled eggs like turquoise stones."
--first visit to David Rumsey's map collection, San Francisco, with David's visionary insight into cartography....-
-two weeks aboard a Swedish vessel circumambulating Svalbard in the high Arctic, 2011
--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, raft trip, summer solstice, 2014 (also working as a journalist), but also thank you Michael Brune and Dan Ritzman https://www.theguardian.com/.../alaska-wildlife-sanctuary...
--Mt Burdell in green winter splendor, over so many years...
--wake up at Standing Rock to see thousand of joyful people celebrating their determination and solidarity on the great green prairie, 2016 (I went there to report for the Guardian, all too briefly)
--Traveling with Dolpo Tulku rimpoche through Dolpo, the Tibetan plateau/Buddhist land in which he is the spiritual leader, fall 2017, with Roshi Joan Halifax and various others, and doing another version of that route in 2015 that repeats Peter Matthiesson's in The Snow Leopard, including being welcomed into Shey Gompo, and seeing people engaged in daily life on almost medieval terms: plowing with yaks, threshing and reaping and winnowing by hand, traveling on foot or by beast, weaving on wooden looms, tending livestock, crossing high passes up to 17,600' high, spending a month on foot (and occasionally horse)....
--the enchanting walk from the Baldock train station to the cottage Orwell lived in 1936-1940s, through wheat fields full of flints formed undersea and rural rights of way, crossing the ancient Icknield Way (returning to where I first met those roses he planted, if they're his, on Nov. 2, 2017), 2019, walking it again this summer with Rob Macfarlane, 2022
--So many mornings of glorious light at Ocean Beach, because like all of you I also live in the destination.
--camping with my great-nieces who make everything new and exciting again. p.s. Just a reminder: I have had adventures, but my everyday life is staying home quietly turning words around and trying to make meaning with them.
[Rebecca Solnit ]
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Tributes are pouring in for a “beloved” California business owner who was shot dead by a man who complained about a Pride flag hanging at her store.
The unnamed individual killed Laura Ann Carleton, 66, at her business Mag Pi clothing store after making “several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store," the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies responded to the incident around 5pm on Friday following reports of shots being fired. The mother of nine children was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
The shooter fled the scene on foot but was later located by authorities near Torrey Road and Rause Rancho Road. The suspect, who has not been identified, was killed during “a lethal force encounter” with police.
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Lauri Carleton
I'm glad the cops made themselves useful and shot that fucker.
Once again, it's a man killing a woman.
Once again, it's a man killing a woman who had an opinion.
Once again, it's a man murdering a woman who had an opinion hE DiDn'T LiKe; that all people have rights, even people who are not white straight men. (Allegedly)
Didn't Lauri Carleton have #FreedomOfSpeech? Didn't Lauri Carleton have the #RightToLife?
Not according to that piece of shit.
She wasn't even LGBTQ. She was a woman, married to the same man, for nearly 30 years with a blended family of nine children. She was an ally.
It's been three days. Why hasn't the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office released the man's name? Why are they protecting him? Who are they protecting? What are they hiding?
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Insanity! I wonder what they'll find on the killer's electronic devices and who that info will connect him to.
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