New Hampshire has joined Massachusetts in leveling authorized motion in opposition to a New England neo-Nazi group and its leaders for alleged discriminatory actions.
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has filed a grievance stating that NSC-131, which has been documented by teams together with the Anti-Defamation League as spreading Nazi propaganda and imagery, violated the state’s Law Against Discrimination throughout an motion in June that focused a Concord cafe to attempt to coerce it to cancel a deliberate drag queen story hour occasion.
The grievance additionally alleges that the group tried to “terrorize the café into refusing performers access to its venue for no other reason than the sex, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity of those performers.”
“The Department of Justice will continue to enforce the State’s antidiscrimination laws to the greatest extent possible to ensure that people of all backgrounds can live free from discrimination, fear, and intimidation because of who they are,” Formella stated in a press release. “We must and will send a clear message that New Hampshire is not and never will be a safe haven for hate groups that commit illegal acts that harm our citizens.”
In the incident in query, the grievance alleges, NSC-131 chief Christopher Hood led 19 others — all of whom are listed as defendants as “John Does 1-19” — on June 18 to display on the Teatotaller Cafe in a bid to cancel the occasion “and to discontinue hosting such events in the future.”
“Defendants did this because the performer at the story hour identified as a male and was dressed in drag and therefore traditionally feminine attire,” prosecutors wrote within the grievance. “Defendants did this because of the cultural connection between drag performances and the LGBTQ+ community.”
The New Hampshire grievance follows one filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell in Suffolk Superior Court on related grounds.
Campbell’s workplace stated they filed go well with attributable to what they referred to as “an escalating series of unlawful and discriminatory incidents” between July 2022 and January of this 12 months. Those incidents embrace demonstrations at “Drag queen story hours” and at lodges housing lately arrived migrants to Massachusetts.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”