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Four decades after Maine resident Charlie Howard was killed, the Bangor community gathered to honor his life and legacy. In the summer of 1984, Howard and his boyfriend were walking down a main road in town when a group of teenagers yelling homophobic slurs approached them. They threw Howard, then 23, off a bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, where he died by drowning.
“We’re here today because so many of us were touched by what happened,” said Gia Drew, the executive director of EqualityMaine, according to News Center Maine, an NBC affiliate. “That light that was inside of Charlie was passed on to another person, to another person, and another.” Those who gathered to honor Howard also reflected on the fight for LGBTQ rights in Maine, which was fueled after Howard’s death.
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