Meta Ellis presenting the Stephen Light Youth Activist Award to Eric Samelo at the twentieth annual Vigil for Victims of Hate and Violence on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
Paul Hard, Reverend Lynn Hopkins, and Emma McDaniel-Ellis are seated behind the lectern. The vigil is held each year to honor those who have been victims of violence due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. It was first observed in 1999, following the brutal murder Billy Jack Gaither of S...
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