Capitol Hill Community Forum on Safety

A coalition of community organizations and businesses will hold a forum on safety to address growing concerns in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The forum will be held Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. at the Broadway Performance Hall, doors open at 6:00 p.m. This special, public forum is being called in response to recent news reports about incidents of gay-bashing and malicious harassment on Capitol Hill. “We want to provide a forum for the Capitol Hill and LGBT communities to address safety concerns in our neighborhood.” said Seattle LGBT Community Center Interim Executive Director Dennis Poplin. City Councilmember Sally Clark will moderate a panel including Councilmember Nick Licata, Seattle Police Captain Paul McDonagh, Mike Hogan from the King County Prosecutors Office and other safety experts. “Our intention is to provide a panel of educated, invested community leaders to speak specifically about hate crimes, and then open the forum to public dialogue,” Greater Seattle Business Association Executive Director Louise Chernin said. “We would like this forum to be a first step in creating an on-going taskforce to address safety in our community.” The upcoming Capitol Hill community forum on safety is sponsored by the following organizations and businesses: Bailey Coy Books, Broadway BIA, Broadway Video, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, Equal Rights Washington, Gay City Health Project, Greater Seattle Business Association, Kaladi Brothers Coffee, Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities, Seattle Gay News, Seattle LGBT Community Center, Seattle Office for Civil Rights and Rosebud Restaurant. For more information contact Broadway BIA at info@broadwaybia.org or (206) 367-8704 or if you want to volunteer at the event contact Anna Bacler at anna@seattlelgbt.org or 206.709.1114