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Deaths of two gay men who were drugged & robbed ruled homicides
Julio Ramirez and John Umberger were found dead with their bank accounts emptied after leaving Hell’s Kitchen gay bars with unidentified strangers.
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Chicago police & families search for answers after hit-and-run kills 3 outside Black gay bar
As a group of young men tried to stop a fight outside of a local gay bar, a car suddenly plowed into them, killed three and injured a fourth.
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Black trans woman who is a “beloved community member” is shot to death
Nikai David just turned 33 years old before her life was cut short last week. She’s at least the 50th trans or gender non-conforming victim to violence in 2021.
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Friends of person shot & killed in Fresno say he was gay, not transgender
Police initially identified Imer Alvarado as a transgender woman, but friends say they knew Alvarado as a gay man.
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Police arrest suspect in murder of trans man beaten with pipe on NYC sidewalk
Kenneth Bostick is the 10th transgender person murdered this year in the United States alone.
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Wisconsin gay bashing survivor stabbed to death in possible hate crime
A man who survived a brutal Christmas Eve gay bashing six years ago was stabbed to death this week, on his birthday.
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One week into 2017, Mississippi reports year’s first transgender murder
“If everyone in the U.S. were murdered at the rate young black trans women and femmes are, there’s no doubt that the public would consider this a crisis of massive proportions.”
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‘Unerased:’ New database tracks America’s epidemic of transgender murders
It’s being called the most comprehensive investigation of transgender-related homicide to date, and was compiled with help from the NYC Anti-Violence Project.
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Transgender woman murdered in Chicago, then misgendered by police
The killing of Chicago transgender woman T.T. Saffore is the 20th reported murder of a transgender person in the U.S. this year.
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Sexual orientation not ‘key factor’ for man who killed gay son
The primary reason a Los Angeles man shot and killed his son was to cover up for the stabbing death of his wife the previous day.