Hundreds of people turned up on a rainy Friday night to support an Oshawa couple who say they were assaulted because they're lesbians.
"No more fear, no more anger, no more hate," Jane Currie told the crowd.
"Peace, love, acceptance for all," the crowd chanted at one point.
"Oshawa won't sit back and let anyone or anything sully the good name of our people," Mayor John Gray said. "We'll always stand up for what is right."
The response left the two women touched.
"When I walked out, I automatically started to cry. I couldn't believe the turnout," Anji Dmitrou told CTV Toronto. "Emotionally, today I feel fantastic."
Earlier this month, the couple were attacked outside a school by a man who first verbally abused them for being lesbians, then physically assaulted them.
This took place in front of the couple's six-year-old son (they also have two other children). Other children also witnessed the incident.
"I don't want anyone's children to be scared -- ever -- for having two mums who love them even more than they could begin to imagine," Currie said.
A Facebook group in support of the pair,
The couple are pushing to have their attacker charged under the Criminal Code's hate crimes provisions. That decision would ultimately be up to a Crown attorney after police present evidence.
Mark Scott, 43, of Oshawa is facing two counts of assault causing bodily harm in connection with the Nov. 3 incident outside at Gordon B. Attersley public school.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Zuraidah Alman
