Complex sentence: Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in the American West Coast city of Portland, Oregon, on May 29,2011, in response to an attack on a gay male couple one week earlier for holding hands while walking across the bridge.
Split into simpler sentences: Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in the American West Coast city of Portland, Oregon, on May 29,2011. The demonstration was in response to an attack on a gay male couple one week earlier for holding hands while walking across the bridge.