Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader and historian, was traveling on the D.C. Metro on Saturday when a group of masked men — members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front — boarded and sat around him. He spoke to The Advocate about how he felt, and why he chose to go public after a photo of him on the train was circulated by Getty. “As Lincoln said, we have to summon our better angels,” he says. “And I’m hoping by speaking out, this is my way of doing that.”

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Man in viral DC Metro photo feared Patriot Front members

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

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#PatriotFront totally fails to realize that this is how most people see them.

It's our job to make them realize it.