Hill County Dems hear LGBT issues during Politics in the Park

The Hill County Democratic Central Committee held their second annual “Politics in the Park” event at Simon Pepin Memorial Park Saturday in Havre, an event that included a barbecue, live music by local band Stevie Nixon and a series of speakers who talked about LGBT rights.

Rick Magnussen of Havre, who is openly gay, said that about three years ago he lost his front teeth when someone in a local bar punched him for being gay. In 1991, he was beat up in Great Falls after having dinner at a restaurant. He said violence against LGBT people is real.

“It happens,” he said. “This stuff is real it ha...