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Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Updated today at 4:22 AM
AUSTIN -- From sunrise to sunset, the celebration could be seen throughout town.
It was Austin's 21st gay PRIDE anniversary. Locals and visitors were out and about ?in the city to celebrate the day and what it represents.
"You could be yourself and no one is going to judge you," one local said.
"It is a good way to show everybody that Austin is different, keep Austin weird," an LGBT supporter at the PRIDE parade said.
But the cheering crowds came just one day after a potential hate crime happened in the city they adore.
"I put my hands like this. Up over my head so that he wouldn't, he wouldn't get my face," Nick Soret said.? Nick Soret and his friend were ordering pizza from Ropollo's trailer Friday night when he said a man attacked them for being gay.
"Some guy next to me tells me 'what are you looking at?' and I'm like, 'I'm not looking at you,'" he said. "He thought I was checking him out or he thought?I was looking at him and so for that, he knocked all my friend's teeth out, he punched me in the face."
Austin police are investigating the crime.?
Those at PRIDE said the idea of a hate crime is unacceptable.
"It doesn't matter when it happens, it shouldn't happen," a local at PRIDE said.
If you have any information on the crime, contact police.
Locals at the PRIDE celebration said they are keeping the two victims in their thoughts.
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