The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is holding a town hall Tuesday, December 16, following a series of violent, troubling incidents in the city’s queer neighborhood. The meeting will feature Sacramento police, the Midtown Association, and Sacramento District 4 City Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum, who represents Lavender Heights, the city’s LGBTQ neighborhood.

The most serious incident, as the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, was the severe beating November 1 of gay Sacramentan Alvin Prasad outside the Badlands Sacramento LGBTQ nightclub in Lavender Heights, a small neighborhood in midtown Sacramento anchored at 20th and K streets, just east of the California State Capitol.

Sean Wesley Payton Jr., 24, was arrested in connection with the incident, and he will be in Sacramento County

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