Community leaders from the Boston Lesbigay Urban Foundation held a virtual press conference and rally Wednesday in response to an alleged homophobic hate crime in Mattapan last month.

“We gather in love, but we also gather in truth,” Curtis Santos, executive director of the foundation, said. “These incidents are reminders that while we’ve come a long way, there is still more work to do.”

The foundation, which focuses primarily on queer people of color, organized the rally after a Sept. 13 incident in which a gay couple was allegedly targeted with homophobic language before one of them was hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat. Boston police have since released photos of eight suspects associated with the alleged attack.

City officials also attended the conference, includ

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