Pride Month: Hate Crimes

I should post a warning.  This entry may be a little graphic.

This blog is about putting love into the world. Unfortunately, we cannot deny the hate that is out there, too. This entry is going to be about hate. Hate crimes against the LGBTQ community. 

Why am I writing about this? It’s important to know. Especially when you hear people asking, “Why isn’t there a Straight Pride Month?” There isn’t one because we don’t need it. We’re not the target of crimes because of who we love, or who we’re attracted to. 

I found an article on Wikipedia that lists violence against LGBT people in the United States since the Stonewall Riots in 1969. It’s upsetting to read. Never mind the brutality or the lenient sentences on some of the attackers. Just the number of people who were hurt, wounded, or killed is a kick in the gut. 

I tried to paraphrase what I read on the Wikipedia article, and I apologize if I skipped over anything.  To read the full Wiki article, click here

I thought about just posting about a few of the hate crimes, but that’s not really fair to the victims of the ones I skip over. So, here is the heartbreaking list that starts a half century ago. 

1969

• March 9th:  Howard Efland, a gay man, who checked in to a Los Angeles hotel under a pseudonym, was beaten to death by officers of the LAPD. 
• June 28th:  Stonewall Inn Riots

1973

• June 24th:  An arsonist burned Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, killing 32 people. 

1977

• June 21st:  Robert Hillsborough was stabbed to death in San Francisco, by a man shouting “faggot.”

1978

• July 5th:  In an area of Central Park in New York City, that was known to be frequented by gays and lesbians, a gang of youths attacked several men with baseball bats and tree branches. (One of the men assaulted was Dick Button, former figure skater.) Even though the victims were attacked at random, the youths later admitted they deliberately set out to assault homosexuals. 
• November 27th:  Harvey Milk, an openly gay San Francisco city supervisor, and Mayor George Moscone, were assassinated by a political rival, Dan White. White was only sentenced seven to seven years in prison. 

1979

• January:  In Key West, Tennessee Williams was beaten by five teenage boys. The attack was part of a wave of anti-gay violence inspired by an anti-gay newspaper ad run by a local Baptist minister. 
• June 5th:  In Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Terry Knudsen was beaten to death by three men. 
• September 7th:  Robert Allen Taylor was stabbed to death near Loring Park. In an interview from his jail cell, the murderer told a reporter, “I don’t like gays. Okay?”
• October 7th:  Steven Charles, 17, was beaten to death by four men in New York City. Charles’ friend, 16-year-old, Thomas Moore, was also beaten by the four men. Moore was critically injured. The leader of the attack, Costabile “Gus” Farace was charged with first-degree manslaughter. He paroled after eight years. 

1982

• January 1st:  Minneapolis police beat Rick Hunter and John Hanson outside the Y’all Come Back Saloon. Staff from the Hennepin County Emergency Room testified that the police officers referred to the victims as “faggots” while they were being treated. 
• In Portland, Oregon, Robert Alton died after being attacked by Cecil Corrie Turner outside the former JB’s Paradise Room. 

1984

• Charlie Howard was drown in Bangor, Maine, for being “flamboyantly gay.”

1988

• May 13th:  Rebecca White was killed when she and her partner, Claudia Brenner, were hiking and camping along the Appalachian Trail. The murderer, Stephen Roy Carr, claimed he became enraged by the couple’s lesbianism when he saw them having homosexual relations. 
• May 15th:  In Dallas, Texas, John Lloyd Griffin and Tommy Lee Trimble were harassed and later shot by Richard Lee Bednarski. Even though, Bednarski was convicted of the two murders, he was only sentenced to 30 years in prison rather than life in prison. The judge, Jack Hampton, later said it was shortened sentence was because the victims were gay and wouldn’t have been killed if they “hadn’t been cruising the streets” for men.   (Hampton was later criticized for his remarks, and ended up losing a bid for judicial reelection in 1992.)
• December:  A transgender performer, Venus Xtravaganza, was found murdered on Christmas.  She was believed to have been dead for four days.

1990

• A gay Vietnam Veteran, James Zappalorti, was stabbed to death in Staten Island, New York.
• July 2nd:  In New York City, Julio Rivera was beaten with a hammer and stabbed by two men, because he was gay.

1991

• In Houston, ten young men attacked Paul Broussard, Clay Anderson, and Richard Delaunay.  Anderson and Delaunay survived, but Broussard was killed. All ten attackers were eventually convicted.  The sentences ranged from probation and fine for the respective hospitalization and funeral bills to the 45-year imprisonment of Jon Buice, who confessed to delivering the fatal stab wound.

1992

• October 27th:  Allen Schindler, a U.S. Navy Petty Officer, was murdered by a shipmate who stomped to death in Japan in a public restroom.  Schindler had repeatedly complained about anti-gay harassment on board the ship.  

1993

• Brandon Teena, a trans-man, was raped and later killed by his friends after policy revealed his birth gender.  (The movie Boys Don’t Cry is about these events.)

1995

• March 9th:  Scott Amedure was murdered by his friend, Jonathan Schmitz.  Amedure had revealed his crush on Schmitz on an episode of the talk show The Jenny Jones Show about secret crushes.
• November 20th:  Chanelle Pickett, a 23-year old African American trans-woman, died in William C. Palmer’s home.  According to Palmer, the two got into a fight after he found out Pickett was transgender, and demanded Pickett to leave his home.
• December 4th:  Lesbian couple Michell Abdill and Roxanne Ellis were murdered by Robert Acremont.  Acremont said he had “no compassion” for homosexual or bisexual people. He was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

1996

• January 4th:  In Texas, Fred Mangione and his partner, Kenneth Stern were attacked by two neo-Nazis.  Stern survived, but Mangione was murdered. One of the attackers later received a 10-year probation sentence.
• May:  In Shenandoah National Park, Juliane Williams and Lollie Winans were murdered at their campsite along the Appalachian Trail.  They were bound and gagged with their throats slit. There has been no convictions in their murders.
• August 1st:  A 34-year-old Latino gay man, Nick Moraida, was murdered during a robbery.  His murderer was given the death penalty.

1997

• February 21st:  In Atlanta, Georgia, a lesbian nightclub (The Otherside Lounge) was bombed by Eric Robert Rudolph, the “Olympic Park Bomber.”  Five patrons were injured. Rudolph was sentenced to five consecutive life terms in prison for his multiple bombings. In a statement released after he was sentenced, Rudolph called homosexuality an “aberrant lifestyle.”
• July 4th:  A 19-year-old gay male in Los Angeles, California, Nahshon Dion Anderson, picked up Ricky Laverne Marshall near Leimert Park. Anderson was beaten and handcuffed by Marshall, who also shot into the car. Anderson escaped and testified against his attacker the next year. Marshall was found not guilty. 

1998

• October 7th:  In Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a gay student, was tortured, severely beaten, tied to a fence, and abandoned. Eighteen hours after the attack, he was found. A week later, Shepard passed away from his injuries. His murderers, Russell Arthur Henderson and Aaron James McKinney are both in prison serving two consecutive life sentences.

1999

• February 19th:  In Rockford, Alabama, a 39-year-old gay man, Billy Jack Gathier, was beaten to death. Steve Mullins and Charles Monroe Butler, his attackers, were found guilty of murder. They’re both serving life sentences, without parole. 
• July 1st:  In Redding, California, gay couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder, were murdered by Matthew and Tyler Williams, white-supremacist brothers. Tyler was sentenced to 33 years in, to be completed after a 21 year sentence for firebombing synagogues and an abortion clinic. 
• September:  Steen Fenrich was murdered, apparently by his stepfather, John D. Fenrich, in Queens, New York. In March of 2020, Steen’s remains were found. He was dismembered, with the words, a gay and a racist slur scrawled on his skull, along with his social security number. While being interviewed, the stepfather fled from police, then committed suicide. 
• October 15th:  In Savannah, Georgia, Sissy “Charles” Bolden was found shot to death. Police arrested Charles E. Wilkins, Jr., in July of 2003. Wilkins admitted to the killing, and was charged with two other homicides. 

2000

• July 3rd:  In Grant Town, West Virginia, Arthur “J.R.” Warren was punched and kicked to death by two teenage boys. The teenagers believed Warren has spread rumors that he and one of the boys, David Allen Parker, had a sexual relationship. The murderers ran over Warren’s body to try to cover up the attack as a hit and run. Parker plead guilty, and was sentenced to “life in prison with mercy.” It made him eligible for parole after 15 years. His accomplice, Jared Wilson, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. 
• September 22nd:  At a gay bar in Roanoke, VA, Ronald Gay walked in, and opened fire. Danny Overstreet, 43, was killed, and six others were severely injured. The shooter said he was angry over what his last name now meant. He said that he was a “Christian Soldier working for my Lord.”  When testifying in court, in front of his shooting victims and Overstreet’s family, Gay stated that “he wished he could have killed more fags.”

2001

• June 16th:  In Cortez, Colorado, a transgender and two-spirit, Fred Martinez, was bludgeoned to death by Shaun Murphy, 18. Murphy bragged about attacking a “fag.”
• August 25th:  In Leawood, Kansas, Gary Raynall was brutally beaten to death. The case is still unsolved, but his family members believe he was the victim of a hate crime. 
• December 12th:  In Florida, Terrianne Summers, a trans woman and activist for transgender rights, was shot and killed in her front yard. Even though no arrests were made and police did not investigate her murder as a hate crime, because she was a high profile woman from being an activist, leads Terriane to be added to the list of anti LGBT hate crimes. 

2002

• June 12th:  Philip Walsted was fatally beaten with a baseball bat by David Higdon. Prosecutors said that because of Higdon’s neo-nazi views, what started as a robbery, ended in a homicide. Higdon was sentenced to life in prison, and an additional sentence for robbery. 
• August 6th:  In the Bronx, New York, 26-year-old Rodney Velasquez was found murdered in bathtub. 
• October 3rd:  A trans woman, Gwen Araujo, was murdered by at least three men, who were charged of committing a hate crime. Two of the men were convicted of murdered, the third was convicted of manslaughter. The jury rejected the hate crime enhancement. 
• December 24th:  Nizah Morris, a black trans woman, was possibly murdered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

2003

• May 11th:  In Newark, New Jersey, Sakia Gunn, a black 15-year-old lesbian, was murdered. Gunn and her friends were waiting for a bus when they were propositioned by two men. The girls rejected the advances, telling the men they were lesbians, and the men attacked them. One of the men, Richard McCullough, fatally stabbed Gunn. McCullough, in exchange for his pleading guilty to several lesser crimes including aggravated manslaughter, prosecutors dropped the murder charge. He was sentenced to 20 years 
• June 17th:  Richie Phillips of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was killed by Joseph Cottrell. His body was found in a suitcase in Rough River Lake. During Cottrell’s trial, two of his family members testified that he lured Phillips to his death because he was gay. 
• July 23rd:  Nireah Johnson and Brandie Coleman were shot to death, and their bodies burned. Paul Moore shot the two when he learned after a sexual encounter with Johnson and learned that she was transgender. He was sentenced to 120 years in prison. 
• July 31st:  Glenn Kopitske, 37, was shot and stabbed in the back by Gary Hirte, 17. Prosecutors said that Hirte—a straight A student, a star athlete, and Eagle Scout—murdered Kopitske to see if he could get away with it. Hirte pleaded “insanity,” claiming that killed Kopitske in a rage after the two had a consensual sexual encounter, because he felt a homosexual act was “worse than murder.” The insanity plea was not upheld. Hirte was found guilty, and received a life sentence. 
• August:  In Washington, D.C., Emonie Spaulding, a black 25-year-old trans woman was shot to death. The murderer, Derrick Antwan Lewis shot Spaulding after finding out she was trans. 

2004

• July 22nd:  In Bay Minette, Alabama, 18-year-old, Scotty Joe Weaver was murdered. His body, burned and partially decomposed, was found a few miles away from the mobile home he lived in. He was beaten, strangled, stabbed several times, partially decapitated, and his body was doused with gasoline and set on fire. 
• October 2nd:  In Waverly, Ohio, Daniel Fetty, a gay man who was homeless and hearing impaired, was attacked by multiple people. Fetty was beaten, stomped, shoved nude in garbage bin, impaled with a stick, and left for dead. He died from his injuries the next day. Three men received sentences ranging from seven years to lift in prison. 

2005

• January 28th:  In Tampa, Florida, three-year-old Ronnie Antonio Paris, died due to brain injuries inflicted by his father, Ronnie Paris, Jr. According to family members, the victim’s father repeatedly slammed him into walls, slapped his head and “boxed” him became he was concerned that the child was gay and would grow up “a sissy.”  He was sentenced to life in prison. 
• February 27th:  In Santa Fe, New Mexico, James Maestas, 21, was assaulted outside a restaurant and then followed to a hotel where beaten unconscious. The assailants called him “faggot” during the attack. Although they were all charged with a hate crime, none were sentenced to prison. 
• March 11th:  Jason Gage, an openly gay man, was bludgeoned to death with a bottle in his Waterloo, Iowa apartment. The murderer, Joseph Lawrence, claimed Gage made a sexual advance to him. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison. 
• October 25th:  Openly gay poet and activist, Emanuel Xavier, was surrounded and brutally beaten by a group of 15-20 teens, which made him permanently deaf in his right ear. 

2006

• February 2nd:  In New Bedford, Massachusetts, 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida entered a bar. After confirming it was a gay bar, Robida attacked patrons with a hatchet and a handgun. He wounded three in the attack, and fatally shot himself three days later. 
• June 10th:  In Manhattan, Kevin Aviance, a female impressionist, musician, fashion designer and “oldest daughter” of the legendary House of Aviance was robbed and beaten by a group of men who yelled anti-gay slurs at him.  Four of the attackers pleaded guilty and received prison sentences.
• July 30th:  After leaving the San Diego Gay Pride festival, six men were attacked with baseball bats and knives.  One of the victims was so injured so badly that he had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery. Three men pleaded guilty to the attacks and received prison sentences.  A juvenile, 15-years-old, also pleaded guilty.
• October 8th:  Four young heterosexual men were online looking for a gay men to rob.  Michael Sandy was lured by the men and attacked. Sandy was hit by a car when trying to escape the attackers, and died five days later, never regaining consciousness.

2007

• February 27th:  In Detroit, Michigan, a 72-year-old disabled gay man, Andrew Anthos was beaten with a led pipe by a man who shouted anti-gay names at him.  Anthos died ten days later in the hospital.
• March 15th:  Ryan Keith Skipper, a 25-year-old gay man, was stabbed to death in Wahneta, Florida.  Four suspects were arrested for the crimes.
• March 16th:  In San Francisco, Ruby Ordeñena, a 24-year-old transgender Latina woman, was found naked and strangled to death. Donzell Francis, who was suspected of raping and strangling Ordeñena, was convicted on 12/23/09, and sentenced to 17 years and 18 months in prison for forcible oral copulation, robbery, assault causing great bodily, and false imprisonment of another transgender woman. 
• May 12th:  In Brooklyn, New York, Roberto Duncanso was stabbed to death by Omar Willock. Willock claimed Duncanso flirted with him. 
• May 16th:  In Greenville, South Carolina, Sean William Kennedy, 20, was walking to his car from Brew’s Bar when he was approached by Andrew Moller, 18. Investigators said that Moller made a comment about Kennedy’s sexual orientation, and threw a fatal punch because he didn’t like Kennedy’s sexual preference. 
• September 9th:  On the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, a gay bashing happened in the Towers West Quiznos. A student, Robert Gutteriez, and a non-student hurled homophobic abuse at two gay students, and beat one up. 
• October:  In Oklahoma, Steven Domer, a 62-year-old gay man, was murdered. 
• December 8th:  In Washington D.C., Nathaniel Salerno, a 25-year-old gay man, was attacked by four men on a Metro train. The men called him “faggot” as they beat him. 

2008

• January 8th:  Stacey Brown, a black 30-year-old trans woman, was found dead in her apartment. She had been shot in the head. 
• July 1st:  In Memphis, Ebony Whitaker, an African American trans woman, was shot and killed. 
• February 2008:  In Tennessee, Duanna Johnson, a trans woman, was beaten by a police officer while being held in Shelby County Criminal Justice Center. Johnson said the officer called her a “faggot” and “he-she” both before and during the attack. In November of 2008, she was found dead in the street, reportedly gunned down by three unknown individuals. 
• February 4th:  Ashley Sweeney, a trans woman, was shot in the head. Her body was found in Detroit, Michigan. 
• February 10th:  In the Bronx, New York, Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year-old black trans woman was stabbed to death. 
• February 12th:  Fifteen-year-old junior high student, Lawrence “Larry” King was shot twice by a classmate E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California. On February 15th he was taken off life support after doctors declared brain dead. According to Associated Press reports, “prosecutors have charged a 14-year-old classmate with pre-meditated murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements.”
• February 22nd:  In Broward County, Florida, Simmie Williams, Jr., a black gender-noncoforming 17-year-old, was shot dead on a street corner. 
• March 16th:  Police say Lance Neve was beaten unconscious in Rochester, NY, because he was gay. Neve sustained a fractured skull and broken nose in the attack. Jesse Parsons was sentenced to more than five years in prison for the attack. 
• May 29th:  In Baltimore County, 18-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of a subgroup of a larger gang, was murdered by Stephen T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings after finding “gay messages” on Parrish’s cell phone. They felt that having a gay member would make the gang seem weak. Hollis III pleaded guilty and sentenced to life in prison; Flythe was sentenced to life in prison, however, all but 30 years were suspended. Rawlings was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A fourth man, Benedict Wureh, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact, and was sentenced to time served, about 17 months. 
• June 9th:  In Detroit, Michigan, Jeremy Waggoner was brutally murdered. His murder was still unsolved. 
• July 17th:  Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old trans woman, was beaten to death in Colorado two days after meeting Allen Ray Andrade. The case was prosecuted as a hate crime, and Andrade was found guilty of first degree murder on April 22, 2009. 
• August 20th:  In Louisville, Kentucky, a black trans woman, Nahkia Williams was shot to death. Damon Malone was charged with her murder, robbery, and burglary, and sentenced to 35 years in prison. 
• September 7th:  In Washington D.C., Tony Randolph Hunter, 27, and his partner were attacked and beaten near a gay bar. Hunter died from his injuries on September 18th. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime. 
• September 13th:  In Denver, Colorado, 26-year-old Nima Daivari, was attacked by a man who called him “faggot.” The police that arrived on the scene refused to take a report of the attack. 
• September 21st:  Twenty-two year old trans woman, Ruby Molina’s naked body was found face down on a riverbank in an isolated and undeveloped area in San Francisco, California. 
• November 7th:  In Newton, North Carolina, the home of openly gay Melvin Whistlehunt was destroyed by arsonists. Investigators found homophobic graffiti spray painted on the back of the house. 
• November 14th:  In Syracuse, New York, 22-year-old trans woman, Lateisha Green, by Dwight DeLee because he thought she was gay. DeLee was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime on July 17, 2009, and received the maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison. This was only the second time in the nation's history that a person was prosecuted for a hate crime against a transgender person, and the first hate crime convicted in New York State. 
• December 12th:  In Richmond, California, a 28-year-old lesbian was kidnapped and gang raped by four men who made homophobic remarks during the attack. 
• December 26th:  Taysia Elzy, a 34-year-old trans woman and her partner 22-year-old Michael Hunt, were shot to death and left for dead in their apartment by 20-year-old Chris Conwell. 
• December 27th:  In Dayton, Ohio, 24-year-old Nathan Runkle was brutally beaten outside a gay nightclub. 

2009

• January 17th:  In San Francisco, California, Caprice Curry, a 31-year-old trans woman, was stabbed to death. 
• February 15th:  In New York City, Efosa Agbontaen and Branden McGillvery-Dummett we’re attacked by four young men with glass bottles and box cutters. The assailants used ant-gay slurs during the attack. Agbontaen and McGillvery-Dummett both required emergency room treatment for their injuries. 
• February 18th:  In Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, two men were arrested for the stabbing death of Michael Goucher, a gay veteran. 
• March 1st:  In Galveston, Texas, three men entered a bar and attacked the patrons with rocks. One of the victims, Marc Bosaw was sent to the emergency room, and had twelve staples in his head. 
• March 14th:  In Newark, New Jersey, a gay couple, Josh Kehoe and Bobby Daniel Caldwell, we’re attacked by fifteen teens when leaving a Britney Spears concert. The couple were called “faggots” and beaten. Caldwell suffered a broken jaw. 
• March 23rd:  On a beach in Seaside, Oregon, two gay men were attacked and left unconscious.
• April 6th:  In Springfield, Massachusetts, an 11-year-old child, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover hanged himself with an extension cord after being bullied in school. The bullies said he “acted feminine,” and was gay. 
• April 10th:  Thirty-six year old Justin Goodwin, of Salem, Massachusetts, was beaten by as many as six people outside a bar in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Goodwin suffered a shattered jaw, broken eye socket, broken nose, and broken cheekbone. Goodwin later died by suicide. Brothers William and Jonathan Chadwick, and John Curley-Brotman pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The assault was not considered a hate crime by authorities despite pressure from Goodwin’s family. On 6/23/2010, the Chadwick brothers were each sentenced to four years in state prison. Curley-Brotman was sentenced to two years in the county jail in Middleton, Massachusetts. 
• June 18th:  In Washington D.C., African American trans woman Patti Hammond Shaw turned herself into a police department after receiving a letter stating there was a warrant for her arrest on charges of making a false report.  Shaw showed documents supporting her right to be housed with the other women, but she was housed in the men’s facility. According to her lawsuit, the officers, “groped her breasts, buttocks and between her legs repeatedly and excessively.”
• June 30th:  Seaman August Provost was found shot to death and burned at his guard post at Camp Pendleton.  LGBT community leaders “citing military sources initially said that Provost’s death was a hate crime.”  Provost had been harassed because of his sexual orientation. Military leaders have since explained, “whatever the investigation concludes, the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy prevented Provost from seeking help.”  Family and friends of Provost believes he was killed because he was openly gay. Provost’s murderer killed himself a week after confessing to the murder.
• October 25th:  In Baltimore, Maryland, policy found trans woman, Dee Green, unconscious, stabbed in the heart, and bleeding.  Green was taken to a hospital where she died a half hour later. Larry Douglas was charged with first degree murder in April, 2010.
• November:  An openly gay, 15-year-old boy, James Mattison, Jr., was violently murdered and raped at his aunt’s house by a family friend, Dante Parrish, 35.  Parrish had been in prison for murder previously. He was convicted of Mattison’s murder in April 2012, and sentenced to life without parole; the conviction included a second life sentence for attempted sexual assault.
• December 9th:  In San Francisco, California, Mariah Malina Qualls’ body was found in a hotel.  Qualls was a 23-year-old transgender woman who volunteered and and was a member of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center TRANS:THRIVE community.

2010

• January 18th:  The half-naked corpse of Myra Chanel Ical, a 51-year-old trans woman, was found in a vacant lot in Houston, Texas.
• March 30th:  In Queens, New York, Amanda Gonzalez Andujar, a 29-year-old Latina trans woman was found dead in her apartment. Her killer, Rasheen Everett strangled her and doused her body with bleach. In December 2013, Everett was sentenced to 29 years to life. At the sentencing, John Scarpa, Everett’s lawyer disputed the sentence with his statement, “Who is the victim in this case? Is the victim a person in the higher end of the community?” The judge, Queens Supreme Court Justice, Richard Buchter, responded, “This court believes every human life is sacred ... It's not easy living as a transgender, and I commend the family for supporting her.”
• April 3rd:  In Charlotte, North Carolina, Toni Alston, a 44-year-old black transgender woman, was shot in the front door of her home. 
• May 7th:  Dana A. “Chanel” Larkin, a 26-year-old black trans woman who worked as a prostitute, was shot three times in the head by her client, Andrew Olacirequi. He shot Larkin after she asked him if it was okay with them having sex despite her male genitalia. She was found dead on the ground on a street in Milwaukee. 
• June 21st:  In Southside, Chicago, 28-year-old trans woman, Sandy Woulard, was found shot in the chest. A passing motorist found her lying on the street, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. 
• October 3rd:  In the Bronx, New York, a 30-year-old man known as “la Reina” (the Queen), Bryan Almonte (17), and Brian Cepeda (17) by a homophobic group of youths.  The victims were sodomized with foreign objects like a plunger and baseball bat; they were burned with cigarettes and tortured for hours.
• September 11th:  In New Jersey, Victoria Carmen White, a 28-year-old black transgender woman, died of bullet wounds in her apartment.  It is unknown if she was targeted by her killer, Alrashim Chambers, for her identity.
• October 14th:  Thirty-one year-old black trans woman, Stacey Blahnik Lee, was found murdered in her home by her boyfriend. 
• November 17th:  In Pearland, Texas, 18-year-old Joshua Wilkerson was found dead in a field. He was beaten to death and set on fire by a friend, Hermilo Moralez. It was supposedly retaliation for unwanted sexual advances. 

2011

• January 11th:  In Minneapolis, 45-year-old transgender woman, Chrissie Bates, was stabbed to death in her apartment. Arnold Darwin Waukazo was sentenced to 367 months in prison for the murder. 
• February 19th:  Tyra Trent, a black 25-year-old trans woman was found strangled to death in a vacant house. 
• April:  In Kentucky, a gay 28-year-old man, Kevin Pennington, was kidnapped and severely beaten by two men shouting anti gay epithets. David Jason Jenkins and Anthony Ray Jenkins face possible life sentences for anti gay hate crime.
• April 22nd:  In Baltimore County, Maryland, 22-year-old trans woman, Chrissy Lee Polis, was beaten by two African American women for entering a women’s restroom. The attack triggered Polis to have a seizure. Teonna Monae Brown, 19, was sentenced to five years in prison, plus three years supervised probation. The other woman was charged as a juvenile and sentenced to a juvenile detention facility. 
• June:  Cuban trans woman, Rosita Hernandez, was stabbed to death in Miami. In November 2011, Miguel Pavon was charged with first degree murder after his DNA was matched with samples found in the victim’s residence. 
• June 5th:  In Minneapolis, Minnesota, CeCe McDonald, a young African American trans woman, was attacked outside a tavern shortly after midnight. McDonald fatally stabbed her attacker with a pair of scissors. She was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 19 months in a men’s prison. 
• July 20th:  Lashai Mclean, a 23-year-old African American trans woman, was shot to death in Washington D.C. 
• August 11th:  In East Harlem, Manhattan, a Latina transgender woman, Camila Guzman, was found murdered in her apartment. 
• September 8th:  Thirty-two year-old gay man, Cameron Nelson was attacked at his place of employment in Utah. 
• October 11th:  In Detroit, a black transgender teen, who had been reported missing, Shelley Hilliard, had her burnt torso identified by police. Her murderer, 30-year-old Qasim Raqib was sentenced on 3/26/12 to 25-40 years in Japan. 
• November 15th:  Danny Vega, a 58-year-old Asian American gay man who worked as a hairdresser in Seattle, was beaten and robbed as he was taking a walk. The beating left him in a coma from which he later died. 
• November 17th:  In Hollywood, a 32-year-old black transgender woman, Cassidy Nathan Vickers, dies from a fatal gun shot to the chest. Her killer, who’s still unidentified, is also suspected of attempting to rob and non-fatally shoot another black transgender woman on the same day. 
• December 17th:  Twenty-six year-old, Charlie Hernandez, an openly gay man, was stabbed to death following a brawl that included anti gay slurs that occurred with two men after he accidentally stepped on a pair of sunglasses. 
• December 24th:  In Kansas City, Missouri, Dee Dee Pearson, a 31-year-old trans woman, died from bullet wounds. Kenyan L. Jones was charged with second degree murder, and armed criminal action. Jones told police that he paid to have sex with Pearson, believing her to be a cisgender woman, but hours after having sex with her, he discovered she was not. 
• December 29th:  The body of a black 23-year-old trans woman, Githe Goines was found in a scrap heap in New Orleans. She had been missing for two weeks beforehand. According to an autopsy, she had been dead for as long as two days before her body was discovered, and she was strangled. 

2012

• January 21st:  In Oceanside, California, a 47-year-old black trans woman, Crain Conaway, was found dead in her home. Tyree Paschall Monday was arrested in connection with her murder. 
• February 2nd:  A 23-year-old black trans woman, JaParker “Deoni” Jones, was stabbed in the head while waiting at a bus stop in Washington D.C.  
• February:  In Oklahoma, 18-year-old Cody Rogers was brutally assaulted and targeted with homophobic slurs at a party, after defending a female friend who was also attacked. 
• March 24th:  Several cross dressing and transgender people were shot at and robbed by a Florida man, suspected to be De Los Santos. Tyrell Johnson, 23, was fatally wounded in the shooting. Michael Hunter, 20, was injured. 
• April 3rd:  In East Detroit, Michigan, Coco Williams, a black trans woman, was found murdered. The homicide may have been related to her involvement as a sex worker. 
• April 16th:  In Chicago, Paige Clay, a 23-year-old black trans woman, was found dead with a bullet wound to her face. 
• April 21st:  Twenty-three year-old, Eric Unger, a gay man living in Illinois, was attacked on the way home from a party while they shouted anti-gay epithets at him. 
• May:  Max Pelofske, a 21-year-old gay man, was beaten by a gang of youths at a party in Minnesota. Police disagree with Pelofske’s claim that the attack was a hate crime. 
• June 5th:  In the cafeteria of Roy Mann Junior High School In Brooklyn, Kardin Ulysse, a black 14-year-old boy, was attacked by a group of boys. Ulysse was called anti-gay slurs during the attack. He sustained damage to the cornea of one of his eyes, leaving him blinded. 
• June 23rd:  Mollie Olgin, 19, and her girlfriend, Kristene Chapa, 18, were found shot in the head in Portland, Texas. Olgiin died at the scene and Chapa survived. 
• July 5th:  In Baltimore, Maryland, Tracy Johnson, a 40-year-old black trans woman, was found dead from gunshot wounds. 
• August 14th:  In an abandoned building in Chicago, Tiffany Gooden, a 19-year-old black trans woman was found murdered.  An autopsy verified that she was stabbed to death.
• August 18th:  Kendall Hampton, a 26-year-old black trans woman, died of gunshot wounds.  Eugene Carlos Dukes was arrested and indicted for her murder
• August 26th:  In Miami, Deja Jones, a 33-year-old black trans woman was shot to death in Miami.
• September 3rd:  In Philadelphia, the body of 27-year-old trans woman, Kyra Cordova, was found in a wooded area.
• October 15th:  Janette Tovar, a 43-year-old trans woman, was murdered by her partner, Jonathan Kenney according to policy.  Kenney beat her and slammed her head into concrete. Police arrested him for her murder.

2013

• March 1st:  Sondra Scarber addressed a parent about her girlfriend’s son being bullied at an elementary school in Mesquite, Texas.  Scarber was beaten by him when he realized she was a lesbian.
• May 17th:  A 32-year-old black man, Mark Carson, was shot to death by a man who taunted Carson and a friend as they walked down the street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.  When Carson and his friend ignored the assailant’s questions, he started yelling anti-gay slurs, and asked one of them, “Do you want to die tonight?” Elliot Morales, 33, was arrested briefly after the shooting and charged with murder and weapons charges on 5/19.  According to policy, Morales said he shot Carson because Carson was “acting tough.” The murderer pleaded not guilty, but on 3/9/16, he was convicted by a Manhattan jury of murder as a hate crime. On 6/14/16, he was sentenced to 40 years to life.
• May 22nd:  Eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez was tortured by his mother (Pearl Fernandez), and her boyfriend (Isauro Aguirre), because they believed the boy to be gay.  Prosecutor Jon Hatami detailed the acts allegedly committed by the pair:  they beat Gabriel, bit him, burned him with cigarettes, whipped him, shot him with a B.B. gun, starved him, fed him cat litter, and kept him gagged and bound in this cubby hold closet until he was found on May 22, 2013, dying of blunt force trauma to the head. He died two days later in the hospital.  In June, 2018, Aguirre was sentenced to death, and Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
• June 2nd:  Matthew Fenner was beaten and choked for hours by church members.  Fenner says the attack was “to break [him] free of the homosexual demons they so viciously despise.”
• November 4th:  Eighteen-year-old, Sasha Fleischman, had their skirt set on fire while sleeping on a bus in Oakland California.  Sixteen-year-old Richard Thomas was charged with felony assault, with an enhancement of inflicting great bodily injury.  Thomas admitted that he had started the fire because he is homophobic. On 11/14/14, Thomas was sentenced to seven years in a juvenile detention center.
• December 31st:  A fire was started in the stairway of a gay nightclub in Seattle, which was quickly extinguished. After suspect Musab Mohammaed Masmari had told a friend that "homosexuals should be exterminated", an informer from the Muslim community told the FBI Masamari may have also been planning terrorist attacks. The native of Benghazi, Libya was arrested en route to Turkey. Masmari was sentenced to 10 years on federal arson charges.

2014

• March 1st:  In a New York City subway station, well-known openly gay white rapper, Jipsta, was a victim of an attack when he and his partner were celeberating their 10 year anniversary.  The assailant yelled homophobic slurs at the couple, and after a verbal disagreement, Jipsta was brutally beaten by the unidentified subject. Jipsta required surgery for the seven broken bones sustained to us nose and eye socket.
• March 6th:  Lesbian couple Britney Cosby, 24, and Crystal Jackson, 24, were murdered by Britney’s father, James “Larry” Cosby.  Brittney was strangled and beaten to death. Crystal was also strangled and beaten, but it was a gunshot wound to the temple that was the cause of death.  They were survived by Britney’s five-year-old daughter.
• June 1st:  Ahmed Said, 27, and Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, were killed, execution style after midnight in Seattle, shortly after leaving a gay nightclub.  Both victims were gay. Said was lured by a man he met on the app Grindr. Anderson-Young was getting a ride home from Said. The shooting was investigated as a hate crime.  Both of the men were shot multiple times. Anderson-Young died in the car, and Said died outside.

2015

• February 1st:  In San Francisco, California, 36-year-old trans woman, Taja Dejesus was found stabbed to death.
• April 13th:  Ron Lane was shot dead by a former student of Wayne Community College, Kenneth M. Stancil, III, who had supervised at the campus print shop.  Stancill’s mother claimed that Lane, who was gay, made unwanted sexual advances towards her son. Those claims were not confirmed. The murder was investigated as a hate crime.

2016

• June 12th:  Forty-nine were killed and 53 people were wounded in Miami, Florida, at the gay nightclub, Pulse, after 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire.  The incident was the largest and deadliest act of violence targeting LGBT people.
• September 7th:  Leaving his job at a gay bar, Michael Phillips was attacked.  Phillips and his husband say they have been targeted for their sexual orientation multiple times.

2017

• August 28th:  A gay man was beaten, and suffered a broken jaw, by a group of men who shouted homophobic slurs at him.
• September:  In Missouri, Ally Seinfeld, a transgender teenager, was stabbed to death and mutilated by three youths.
• November 8th:  A 17-year-old gay teenager was allegedly attacked by 18-year-old Trevon Godbolt.  Reportedly, Godbolt made the teenager take off his clothes and possessions, then beat him and took his clothes.  Another man and two women were involved. One of the women recorded the attack on a cell phone.

2018

• January 2nd:  Openly gay college student, Blaze Bernstein, was stabbed more than 20 times.  Samuel Woodward, an avowed neo-Nazi and member of the Attomwaffen Division, was charged with Bernstein’s murder.
• March 7th:  In Kansas City, Missouri, Ta’Ron “Rio” Carson, a gay man, was fatally shot when he left the Aura nightclub.
• March 28th:  A black transgender woman, Amia Tyrae, was found dead in a motel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with multiple gunshot wounds.  A friend of Tyrae’s, Nevaa White, said that Tyrae lived her life as an openly trans woman since 2009. White also said her friend was bullied and “didn’t have an easy life.”