In 1991, after binging on alcohol, ten youths from The Woodlands came into town specifically to “beat up some queers.” Outside a Montrose nightclub, they attacked and killed 27 year old Paul Broussard, a young banker, with fists, steel-toed boots, nail-studded two-by-fours, and a knife. Broussard’s brutal death galvanized Houston’s gay community, and ultimately led to changes in the city’s hate crime laws. Broussard died in St. Josephs Hospital on St. Joseph Parkway at La Branch. In July 2011, the community established a remembrance garden (photo) at the northwest corner of California and Grant, a memorial to victims of violence in the gay community, dozens of whom were murdered over the last four decades. The garden recently vanished under a new building. The garden was temporarily relocated to an area in front of JR's and the plan is to permanently move it to the new city park on lower Westheimer once it is completed. Here is a PBS documentary video on the murder and its legacy.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/projects/a-murder-in-montrose/