Texas Boutique Owner Hurls Homophobic Slurs at Couple in Viral Video
A Texas business owner has come under fire for a bigoted outburst toward an LGBTQ+ couple in their apartment complex after a video of her drunken attack circulated on social media.
The incident is the latest in a string of attacks on LGBTQ+ people who are otherwise just living their lives.Last Tuesday, Charles Grady and his partner had just returned to their San Angelo home from a birthday dinner for the latter, when, Grady tells The Advocate, around 9 p.m.
while they were walking from their car to a nearby trash container, a speeding vehicle nearly ran them over.The driver, identified as Evan Berryhill-Jewell, double-parked her car and then began lashing out at the couple, with particular ire directed at Grady, a transgender man.Berryhill-Jewell is the owner of Texas Angels Boutique in San Angelo.Grady captured what happened next in a video shared widely by popular TikTok user Danesh.
Danesh has a history of calling out those who demonstrate bigoted and illegal behavior in public. Under the username thatdaneshguy, the influencer shared video of the incident with more than 1 million of his followers across TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.
