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Terra Alta

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37. I would add Leelah Alcorn to this list.
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 06:28 PM
Jan 2015

I know it's technically a suicide and not murder by someone else, but transphobia -- mainly from her "parents" -- led to her death.

May she rest in peace.

A thread for GLBT martyrs [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2013 OP
Matthew Shepard, Wyoming, 1998... hlthe2b Aug 2013 #1
Dwayne Jones, transgender teen stabbed, shot and run over by Jamaican mob Glorfindel Aug 2013 #2
Sadly this thread will get very big. William769 Aug 2013 #3
Mark Carson, shot in the face earlier this year about a block from the Stonewall Inn. Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #4
Gay man killed in Russia's second suspected hate crime in weeks William769 Aug 2013 #5
Brandy Martell, murdered in Oakland, CA 2012. nt Zorra Aug 2013 #6
Myles “Lashay” Mclean, a 23-year-old transgender woman, Washington, D.C. theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #7
To the thousands (more?) of GLBT sent to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany. Behind the Aegis Aug 2013 #8
... William769 Aug 2013 #9
Beautiful. theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #11
+1 Zorra Aug 2013 #12
So many gone.... theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #10
My Friend Karen, 1991, Nashville Sissyk Aug 2013 #13
80 men murdered in Sydney during the rampage of gay-hate gangs theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #14
TDOR - updated every year sgsmith Aug 2013 #15
Daniel Zamudio, Santiago, Chile theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #16
to all those mentioned mitchtv Oct 2013 #17
I'm one of those. I've been partially disabled since a hate crime almost 4 years ago nightscanner59 Nov 2013 #19
I had a friend that was nearly beaten to death Aerows Jan 2014 #22
I contributed to it Aerows Feb 2014 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author theHandpuppet Oct 2013 #18
Alan Turing Anthea Carson Dec 2013 #20
Isa Shakhmarli, Azeri Gay Rights Activist theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #21
The world is plenty colorful for all LGBTers. Fearless Feb 2014 #23
Seventeen-year-old Rosin Çiçek of Turkey theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #24
This thread is beautiful and horrible at the same time Aerows Feb 2014 #25
Larry King, age 15 shot to death in school in Oxnard California, Feb 2008 Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #27
Chilean man dies after alleged anti-gay attack theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #28
Remembering our brothers and sisters in South Africa theHandpuppet May 2014 #29
Thank you, theHandpuppet, for this topic. WilliamTuckness Jun 2014 #30
Yaz’min Shancez, of Fort Myers, Florida theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #31
Mollie Olgin and Mary Kristene Chapa, teenage lesbian couple, Texas theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #32
Arron Leahey, 24, Texas theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #33
Abdulla Ghavami Chahzanjiru and Salman Ghanbari Chahzanjiri, Iran theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #34
Gift Makau, raped and strangled in a case of "corrective rape", South Africa theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #35
Bryan "Feather" Higgins, San Francisco, August 2014 theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #36
I would add Leelah Alcorn to this list. Terra Alta Jan 2015 #37
Jason Gage - Waterloo, Iowa dee_dee_st_martin Mar 2015 #38
Paul Broussard, Houston, TX, 1991 SusanCalvin Jul 2015 #39
Charlie Howard, Bangor Maine, July 7, 1984 72DejaVu Nov 2015 #40
Orlando, Florida Behind the Aegis Jun 2016 #41
Currently only known as "Julie Doe", located in 1988 outside Orlando, Florida. moriah Jun 2016 #42
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2017 #43
Muhlaysia Booker, trans woman of color shenmue May 2019 #44
Michelle Washington, trans woman of color shenmue May 2019 #45
Denali Stuckey, trans woman of color shenmue Jul 2019 #46
3 black women in SC, since April 2018 mercuryblues Aug 2019 #47
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2021 #48
harvey milk. AllaN01Bear Nov 2021 #49
Sheila Lumumba, Kenyan; nonbinary shenmue Apr 2022 #50
Meghan Riley Lewis, trans woman, lived in Maryland; hosted a holiday party for those who live alone; murdered. shenmue Jan 9 #51
Samantha Gomez Fonseca, activist shenmue Jan 18 #52
Nex Benedict, non-binary student shenmue Feb 21 #53
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