Hate in the suburbs
Brandon Hall and his wife Ashley Candidate for state rep targets LGBTQ nonprofit in Parker County CAROLINE SAVOIE | Contributing Writer CaroSavoWrites@gmail.com When Tina Biffle started an LGBTQ community organization on Facebook in 2019, she was trying to fill a gap in LGBTQ outreach in Parker County.
She didn’t know then that Parker County LGBTQ+ Awareness Community — P.L.A.C. — would be targeted by the political campaign for Brandon Hall, a Republican running for state representative in Texas House District 60.
But when Biffle and P.L.A.C. started advertising a youth and family group that met the last week in September, Hall took to his own Facebook page to rally his supporters against the program and its organizers.
On Sep. 9, Hall posted screenshots of advertisements for The Crossing P.L.A.C., a youth and family group for sixth through 12th graders, and P.L.A.C.’s Transformation Station, a LGBTQ-affirming community closet. “P.L.A.C.
