Vigil

“She was larger than life she had a lot of energy and always smiling and personable.”

Police walked back an initial statement claiming the nonbinary teen hadn’t died due to injuries sustained in a school bathroom attack.

A mayor at the 300-person vigil said that the community must unite against people who dehumanize and spread fear about others.

Civil rights activist and rainbow flag designer Gilbert Baker died this week. He was 65.

Dodds was well known and liked around her neighborhood.

These are just some of the images from across the country and around the world as people gathered to show support for the victims and survivors.

Violet Andrews Park is the type of serene refuge that people visit to get over the death of a loved one, not the type of place where people are brutally murdered. Surely, a violent encounter was the last thing on the minds of Olgin and Chapa when they went to the park on June 22 to waste time before a movie. What happened next is still a mystery. But we do know that the couple was led into a mud-soaked, grassy trail where both girls were shot in the head with a high caliber pistol.

WASHINGTON — More than 100 people gathered in Dupont Circle on Friday for a vigil in honor of a lesbian couple who was shot last week in a Texas park.