I have much love for my fellow Texan Eva Longoria, and like many people in the trans community was pissed to hear the story about about trans barista Vivian Diego.The 22 year old Diego worked at Longoria's LA restaurant Beso that she opened in 2008 with chef Todd English.
Vivian was headed home after working her shift at the restaurant when she was ambushed near the Hollywood Blvd LA METRO station by four knuckle dragging wastes of DNA, severely beaten and left for dead
Vivian was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and treated for two fractured ribs, a shattered cheekbone, a broken jaw and damage to her temple. The perpetrators of the assault are still being sought by the LAPD's Hollywood Division and it is being investigated as a hate crime.
It didn't get much better when that cesspool of transphobia celeb gossip blog Bossip posted the story and I ended up along with several other transpeople and our allies having to go to war in the comment section against all the transphobic ignorance running amok in the comment threads.
On June 3 Longoria tweeted about the incident and offered support to Diego by posting on "My heart and
Glad to hear her comment about it, and hope the LAPD gets the creeps who did this.
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