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The "Real Time" host also said Zohran Mamdani was born in a country "where they kill homosexuals" and brought up the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
By Marco Margaritoff
“Real Time” host Bill Maher on Friday endorsed disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race and excused his past sexual misconduct allegations, while slamming progressive opponent Zohran Mamdani as a danger for the Democratic Party.
“I think he seems like a sweet guy, Mamdani,” Maher said to laughter from the crowd. “But I would just like to say, because the election is in a couple of weeks, this is not just New York that’s on the ballot. I think the whole Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot”.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-maher-slams-zohran-mamdani-endorses-andrew-cuomo_n_68fcf4c1e4b011e808868880?origin=home-zone-b-unit
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moonscape
(5,605 posts)insufferable Islamaphobe. Better whatever, anything, than a Muslim.
LuvLoogie
(8,372 posts)Got it.
PatSeg
(51,358 posts)They stick together.
Red Mountain
(2,204 posts)the whole Democratic party is on the ballot.
Cuomo ain't it.
The rest sounds like a series of cheap shots against Mamdani.
markodochartaigh
(4,532 posts)sent religious leaders to the country in which Mamdani was born to promote the death penalty for homosexuals.
But that has nothing to do with why I don't listen to Bill Maher.
https://globalaffairs.org/commentary-and-analysis/blogs/unholy-relationship-between-ugandas-anti-lgbtq-law-and-us
stopdiggin
(14,605 posts)on either the race - or anyone contemplating it from afar ...
(heads up ... if you're taking any kind of cue from friend Billie ... you're in serious trouble. )
IbogaProject
(5,294 posts)stopdiggin
(14,605 posts)Best outcome, both here and going forward, would be if we just simply STOP awarding these nincompoops any sort of standing or weight at all. And that includes hoping they will shill for our favorite - or against our opponent. (Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Clint Eastwood, Joe Rogan) It doesn't matter - their opinion is strictly 'man in the street'. They Are Entertainers! Grab a box of popcorn and go watch a movie - or to a concert - grab some laughs from a comedian on TV. But, for any serious discussion or public discourse - it makes just about as much sense to be soliciting 'opinion' from Barstool Betty down at the local taphouse. (after both of you have had the proverbial 2or20 .. )
Phoenix61
(18,608 posts)
Silent Type
(11,716 posts)Maybe he’ll come around, but he was not inspiring last night.
Michael Steele as very good explaining his support for Mamdani.
Maher had a good joke about some white winger supporting trump’s boat bombing, “Don’t care about the Fentanyl, What’s in his Skoal.”
I was hoping to see some fire from Beshear, but he was insufferably bland and banal. No discussion at all about Trump’s dictatorial actions, flagrant legal violations, obvious corruption, clear mental and physical degeneration - nothing. So disappointing. Surprisingly, Maher was more clear eyed and critical of Trump than anyone on the panel. I have a hard time dealing with Maher’s misogyny, but he made some very good points on the last segment of the show.
Silent Type
(11,716 posts)I bet money that if Newsom runs, Maher will be a significant backer. And he’ll back others too.
flamingdem
(40,728 posts)because he went against woke for a bit.
I'll take it.
Newsom looks good compared to Bashear.
In It to Win It
(11,841 posts)Basically, he thinks boring centrism and incrementalism wins. Pre-Trump, I might have agreed with that but we don't live in that world anymore. It's time to adjust.
iemanja
(57,032 posts)Doesn’t he live in LA anyway?
iemanja
(57,032 posts)H2O Man
(78,155 posts)He remains a fucking asshole.
Orrex
(66,308 posts)Silent Type
(11,716 posts)yardwork
(68,434 posts)Maher himself comes across as racist when he brings up Uganda against Mamdani.
YodaMom2
(127 posts)I always picked up on the misogyny, and the Islamaphobia was too blatant to ignore. But I realized he was racist years ago when Killer Mike (a problematic guy in his own right) was his guest. Bill continually touched Mike during the entire conversation, almost fondling his arm, his back, his shoulder. So much so that it made me extremely uncomfortable. And I remember thinking “he doesn’t do this with his white guests, not even people he considers friends”. It struck me that he was being patronizing, paternalistic….superior. Smug.
That, and his OCD rants about how “woke” is somehow worse than actual nazis, had me turning off the show years ago.
flamingdem
(40,728 posts)his use of "woke" has become?
No one dares I guess.
Silent Type
(11,716 posts)
hlthe2b
(111,956 posts)He is as dead to me as I wish Trump were...
BannonsLiver
(19,876 posts)Can go days even weeks without thinking of NYC, or their mayoral race. I know it’s probably shocking to Bill, and a lot of New Yorkers, but alas, it’s true.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)He's just a bigoted jerk.
And as a lifelong New Yorker, out of towners need to start minding their business about our elections
yardwork
(68,434 posts)I have no idea if Mamdani will be a good mayor or not, but he won the primary. He's the Democratic nominee.
For Cuomo - forced to resign as governor because of disgraceful behavior - to run as an independent is ridiculous. Cuomo is supported by Trump!
Watching supposed Democrats run around in a panic over Mamdani tends to reinforce what a lot of Democrats have been saying - too many in our party are out of touch, elitest, and wiling to do anything for money and power.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)From what I've seen Mamdani is getting a lot of support from democrats.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/10/endorsements-2025-nyc-mayoral-general-election/406718/
yardwork
(68,434 posts)Cuomo is a Democrat and he's got a lot of wealthy Democratic donors supporting him.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)and has never been a democrat.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-corrects-guest-who-says-he-left-democratic-party-says-he-never-begin
yardwork
(68,434 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)He’s a libertarian. Which is really just a conservative who smokes weed.
IbogaProject
(5,294 posts)He is running against the Democratic nominee that shouild be a ban for 5 or better 10 years.
flamingdem
(40,728 posts)and anti-Muslim people more than "democrats".
thought crime
(949 posts)This is, in a sense, a National election. Sorry, we we're not gonna leave you alone. 
For the record, I'm from PNW and support Mamdani.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)I have family in other states who don’t give a damn.
thought crime
(949 posts)Last summer, I briefly passed through Brooklyn and left on a big boat that went out from there, and saw NYC from that vantage point on a beautiful misty morning. It is a unique gem of a city that may even be the equal of San Francisco in looks and certainly in culture. These are America's gemstones. They are our "world class" cities.
I remember being at a suishi bar in LA once in the mid 80's, sitting next to a couple of people talking about the NY vs. LA thing. One of them spoke in a pretty strong Japanese accent and said, "New York City is not American, but America would not be America without New York City". That kind of stuck with me. 
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:37 AM - Edit history (1)
Sounds very costal. My relatives live in middle America and don’t consider it important. It’s important to me because I live in NYC, and it may be important to you, we shouldn’t assume that something important to us is important to anyone else.
Dorian Gray
(13,841 posts)Look, I'm more left center. But Cuomo has come into this thing as an arrogant jerk who is owed this.
Mamdani was NOT my preferred primary candidate. He didn't make my ranking. (Cuomo did as #5).
But, at this point, Cuomo is so unlikable, propped up by billionaires and Right wingers, and it's so disgusting that I'd rather vote for Curtis Sliwa than Cuomo.
I'm a reluctant Mamdani voter, but I've decided I'm going to do it bc the corporate right alliance that is propping him is more problematic to me than Mandani's policies.
Having said that I will never NOT regret that Kathryn Garcia lost to Eric Adams last time around. She would be sailing into her second term with a competent and non corrupt first term under her belt. What COULD have been in our alternate reality haunts me.
And non NYers like Maher can zip it.
Quiet Em
(2,414 posts)Now they want to push bigoted, misogynistic men into the Democratic party.
There are plenty of good men in the Democratic Party. Cuomo and Platner aren't it.
choie
(6,262 posts)viva la
(4,374 posts)He's "protecting homosexuals" from Momdani who apparently is bad simply because he was born somewhere.
But sexual predators of women, hey, that's just us boys being boys.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)
bucolic_frolic
(53,021 posts)Guy should retire. For the betterment of humanity.
Aviation Pro
(14,975 posts)Just put the fucking red cap on your head already.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)Dennis Miller
Hope22
(4,276 posts)Other thinking people. He is a waste of oxygen.
gulliver
(13,596 posts)Unfortunately, Maher is right to be wary about Mamdani and the potential for damaging the Democratic Party's chances of reclaiming the presidency in 2028. People who don't see the possibility of damaging our party here aren't being as caring about us (and the people who depend on us) as they should be.
fujiyamasan
(821 posts)And how he pushes his agenda. I think some proposals will likely be DOA. He’s run a smart campaign focusing on affordability and his opponents have run absolutely inept campaigns (by that I primarily mean Cuomo).
If he runs the mayoral office like that, it will be tougher to make him look like some kind of scary Muslim socialist.
If the narrative shifts to culture war issues about Columbus Day or “globalizing the intifada” or other distractions, then it will become easier for the republicans to “nationalize” him. Granted, they’ll try anyways, but he’s going to have be savvy.
gulliver
(13,596 posts)
Ping Tung
(3,944 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:15 PM - Edit history (1)
CoopersDad
(3,253 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,838 posts)people for being LGBTQ.
September 28, 1958 – Fernando Rios, a gay man from Mexico City who was leading a tour group around New Orleans, was killed by a group of three college students after leaving the Cafe Lafitte in Exile, a gay bar in the French Quarter. He had left the bar with John Farrell, one of the college students, and was led into an alley, where Farrell, with the other two students present, was assaulted. Rios died later that day.
March 9, 1969 [23] – Howard Efland, a gay man who had checked into the Dover Hotel in Los Angeles, under the pseudonym J. McCann, was beaten to death by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.[24]
June 28, 1969 – Police, in the early morning hours, raided a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. This event sparked the Stonewall riots, which were a series of demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ community.
June 24, 1973 – An arsonist burned the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, killing 32 people.[25]
June 21, 1977 – Robert Hillsborough was stabbed to death in San Francisco by a man shouting "faggot".[27]
November 27, 1978 – Openly gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, along with Mayor George Moscone, was assassinated by political rival Dan White at San Francisco City Hall. Outrage over the assassinations and the short sentence given to White (seven years) prompted the White Night riots.[30]
June 5, 1979 – Terry Knudsen was beaten to death by three men in Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[32]
September 7, 1979 – Robert Allen Taylor was stabbed to death near Loring Park in Minneapolis. A local reporter interviewed the murderer from jail and was told, "I don't like gays. Okay?"[32]
October 8, 1979 – 17-year-old Stephen Charles of Newark, New Jersey, was beaten, shot, and left for dead at Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island by Robert DeLicio, Costabile "Gus" Farace, Farace's cousin Mark Granato, and David Spoto. They also beat Charles' friend, 16-year-old Thomas Moore of Brooklyn. Moore was critically injured but managed to get help at a nearby residence. Moore identified the four men via a lineup four days after the incident. Farace, the leader of the attack, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was paroled after eight years, in 1988. He himself was murdered on November 17, 1989.[33]
October 7, 1981 – Diane Delia, a transgender woman and drag queen performer was murdered by her husband and her lover.[34]
1982 – Robert Altom died after being attacked outside the former JB's Paradise Room on North Vancouver Avenue in Portland, Oregon.[36]
July 7, 1984 – In Bangor, Maine, Charlie Howard and his boyfriend Roy Ogden were attacked by three teenagers, they caught Howard and threw him over the State Street Bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, where Howard drowned. Ogden escaped and pulled a fire alarm.[37]
February 18, 1985 – David Self, a 25-year-old gay man, was choked unconscious, stabbed to death, his body mutilated, and his apartment ransacked by Robert Van Hook, who'd went together to a gay bar with him and had a history of robbing gay men. Van Hook was found guilty of aggravated murder and sentenced to death after unsuccessfully using the gay panic defense at his trial. He was executed in 2018.[38]
April 28, 1985 – Stephen Matthew Eldridge, a 27-year-old gay man, was stabbed 44 times by Jimmy Luna, a worker of a hospital who was hired by Maureen McDermott, a nurse who was Eldridge's roommate in Van Nuys, CA. Two other men were also involved in the murder. McDermott also insisted Luna to cut off Eldridge's penis to make it look like a "homosexual murder" because she thought the police would not take it as seriously as other killings. Luna was sentenced to life and McDermott was sentenced to death.[39] Luna and the two men he hired to assist him attempted to kill Eldridge multiple times and failed.[40]
January 17, 1987 – Shelby bookstore murders: Three men were killed and two more were seriously wounded after being shot execution-style at an adult bookstore known as a meeting place for homosexuals. Three or four gunmen were involved in the attack and the gunmen set the bookstore on fire after the shooting. Two members of the White Patriot Party were charged for the shooting, though one was acquitted at trial and the second had his charges dropped. The case is unsolved.
December 15, 1987 – 26-year-old Anthony Milano, a gay man and artist, was killed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His attackers, Frank Chester and Richard Laird, were sentenced to death in Pennsylvania in 1988. Frank Chester was resentenced to life in prison.[41]
May 13, 1988 – Rebecca Wight was killed when she and her partner, Claudia Brenner, were shot by Stephen Roy Carr while hiking and camping along the Appalachian Trail. Carr later claimed that he became enraged by the couple's lesbianism when he saw them having homosexual relations.[42] Carr was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.[43]
May 15, 1988 – Tommy Lee Trimble and John Lloyd Griffin, two gay men, were harassed and later shot by Richard Lee Bednarski in Dallas, Texas. Bednarski was later convicted of the two murders but was sentenced to 30 years rather than life in prison. The judge who issued the sentence, Jack Hampton, said later that he did so since the victims were homosexuals who would not have been killed if they "hadn't been cruising the streets" for men. Hampton's comments caused considerable controversy. He was later censured for his remarks and ultimately lost a bid for judicial re-election in 1992.[44][45]
November 22, 1988 – Gordon Ray Church, a gay man, was raped, tortured, and murdered by Michael Archuleta and Lance Wood in Utah. Wood was sentenced to life in prison, while Archuleta, who was believed to have been the primary instigator, was sentenced to death.[46]
December 1988 – Venus Xtravaganza, a 23-year-old transgender performer, was found murdered on Christmas. It was estimated that she had been dead for 4 days. Her body was found in the Duchess hotel in New York City.[47]
1990–1999
1990 – James Zappalorti, a gay Vietnam veteran, was stabbed to death in Staten Island, New York.[48]
July 2, 1990 – Julio Rivera was murdered in New York City by two men who beat him with a hammer and stabbed him with a knife because he was gay.[49]
July 4, 1991 – Paul Broussard, a Houston-area banker, was murdered. He was attacked by 10 young men along with Clay Anderson and Richard Delaunay, who survived. All ten of the attackers were eventually convicted, with sentences ranging from probation and fine for the respective hospitalization and funeral bills to the 45-year imprisonment of Jon Buice, who confessed to inflicting the fatal stab wound.[50]
July 31, 1991 – Joel Larson, a 21-year-old gay man, was murdered in Loring Park. Jay Thomas Johnson confessed to the crime.[51][52]
August 10, 1991 – John C. Chenoweth, a 48-year-old Minneapolis politician, was murdered on a beach in Minneapolis known to be a gay hangout. The Hennepin County, Minnesota medical examiner had to use dental records to identify Chenoweth. Another man at the beach, 19-year-old Cord Drazst, was seriously wounded. Jay Thomas Johnson confessed and agreed to a plea agreement of two life sentences, with an additional 15 years.[52][53] When interviewed for the film Licensed to Kill, Johnson stated that he believed he was doing the correct, moral thing in killing homosexuals after watching Pat Robertson's The 700 Club.[54]
October 26, 1991 – Thanh Nguyen, a 29-year-old gay man, and his lover, Hugh Callaway, 35, were attacked in Reverchon Park by three men. The assailants made repeated homophobic remarks as they beat Callaway and Nguyen for approximately 20 minutes before robbing and then shooting the couple. Corey Ardell Burley, 19 at the time of Nguyen's murder, was convicted of capital murder for shooting Nguyen in the abdomen, a wound from which he later died. Freddie Earl Thorton, 22 at the time of the crime, was arrested on April 15, 1992. The third suspect, Frederick Eugene Kirby, was unnamed at the time Burley was sentenced to life in prison. When interviewed for the 1997 documentary Licensed to Kill, Burley admitted that his actions were motivated by his hatred of homosexuals.[55][56]
October 27, 1992 – U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen Schindler was murdered by a shipmate who stomped him to death in a public restroom in Japan.[57] Schindler had complained repeatedly about anti-gay harassment aboard ship.[57] The case became synonymous with the debate over gay people serving in the US military that had been brewing in the United States culminating in the "Don't ask, don't tell" bill.[58]
November 19, 1992 – David Schwartz, a 55-year-old Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, was stabbed to death by Raymond Childs, then 20, in the Hutchinson Whitestone Hotel after a day trip to Schwartz's Connecticut home. Childs inflicted 27 stab wounds and raised a gay panic defense, but was found guilty of second-degree murder and robbery in the first degree.[59] Childs was paroled from Fishkill Correctional Facility on March 16, 2023.[a]
March 2, 1993 - Venus Landin, co-chair of the African-American Gay Lesbian Alliance of Atlanta,[60] was murdered by her former lover, Bisa Niambi,[61] in a murder-suicide.[62] The 1993 Atlanta Gay Pride Festival was dedicated to her memory,[63] and Venus magazine (established 1995) was named in her honor.
July 30, 1993 – Chris Miller, a 23-year-old gay man, was murdered by Jeffrey Swinford, Ronnie Lee Birchett, and Bobby John Fox in Little Rock, Arkansas after all four men had gone to Miller's apartment to snort cocaine.[64] Fox and Swinford both pleaded guilty to first degree murder on August 1, 1995; Birchett's case was 'converted' because he was only 17 at the time.[65] Fox served six years for the murder before being paroled; when he fled to east Texas in 2001, he used the name Brian Stucker.[66] Asked about killing Miller in the documentary Licensed to Kill, Swinford said Miller's death meant there was "one less problem the world had to mess with".[64]
August 6, 1993 – U.S. Army Sergeant Kenneth Junior French entered Luigi's Restaurant in Fayetteville, NC and began shooting people at random with no regard to their own sexuality. French stated his motive for the mass shooting was simply because he was angry; at the time of the incident, survivors recalled French saying, "I'll show you, Clinton [...] I'll show you about gays in the military." before opening fire, referencing the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy President Bill Clinton put in place to allow homosexuals to serve in the U.S. military. He killed Peter Parrous, the owner of the restaurant, and his wife Ethel Parrous, as well as patrons Wesley Scott Cover and James F. Kidd and wounded 7 others. He discussed his motives with Arthur Dong for the documentary Licensed to Kill.[67]
November 30, 1993 – Nicholas West, 23, was kidnapped and murdered in Tyler, Texas by three men. They robbed him, beat him and drove him to a remote Smith County location where they shot him, multiple times. Two of them were found guilty of capital murder and executed, while the third received a life sentence for kidnapping and aggravated robbery.[68][55]
December 25, 1993 – Brandon Teena, a trans man, was raped and, six days later, killed when Richardson County, Nebraska police revealed that he was AFAB to male friends of his.[69] His attacker, John Lotter, was sentenced to death. The events leading to Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry.[70] The county was found to be a negligent party in Teena's death and was ordered to pay $17,360 in restitution to Teena's family.[71]
March 9, 1995 – Scott Amedure was murdered after publicly revealing a crush to acquaintance Jonathan Schmitz on an episode of The Jenny Jones Show about secret crushes. Three days after the episode's taping, Schmitz purchased a shotgun and killed Amedure by firing two shots into his chest. Schmitz then turned himself in to police.[73][74]
November 20, 1995 – Chanelle Pickett, 23, an African American trans woman, died at the home of William C. Palmer after a fight that, according to Palmer, ensued after Palmer discovered that she was transgender and demanded she leave his home. Patrons of the Playland Café, where they had met, said that Palmer was a regular there with a well known preference for transsexuals.[75]
December 4, 1995 – Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill, a lesbian couple in Medford, Oregon, were murdered by a man who said he had "no compassion" for bisexual or homosexual people.[76] Robert Acremant was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection, but later, his sentence was reduced to life. He died in prison of natural causes in 2018.[77]
January 4, 1996 – Fred Mangione, a gay man, was murdered in Texas by two Neo-Nazi brothers. His partner, Kenneth Stern, was also attacked, but survived. One of the attackers, Ronald Henry Gauthier, later received a 10-year probation sentence.[78]
May 1996 – Julianne Williams, 24, and Lollie Winans, 26, were murdered at their campsite along the Appalachian Trail on Virginia's Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. They were bound and gagged and their throats were slit. To date, there has been no conviction in the murders.
August 1, 1996 – Nick Moraida, a 34-year-old Latino gay man, was murdered during a robbery. His murderer, Richard Cartwright, was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection on May 19, 2005.
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October 7, 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student, in Laramie, Wyoming, was tortured, beaten severely, tied to a fence, and abandoned; he was found 18 hours after the attack and succumbed to his injuries less than a week later, on October 12. His attackers, Russell Arthur Henderson and Aaron James McKinney are both serving two consecutive life sentences in prison.[79]
February 19, 1999 – Billy Jack Gaither, a 39-year-old gay man, was brutally beaten to death in Rockford, Alabama. His attackers, Steve Mullins and Charles Monroe Butler were found guilty of murder and were both sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[80]
July 1, 1999 – Gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder was murdered by white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew and James Tyler Williams in Redding, California. James Williams was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in prison, to be served after his completion of a 21-year sentence for firebombing synagogues and an abortion clinic.[81] Benjamin Williams claimed that by killing the couple, he was "obeying the laws of the Creator".[82] He died by suicide in 2003 while he was awaiting trial. Their former pastor described the brothers as "zealous in their faith" but according to him, they were "far from kooks".[83]
July 6, 1999 – Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old infantry soldier in the United States Army, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat as he slept in his barracks at Fort Campbell after being harassed for his relationship with Calpernia Addams. His assailants, Calvin Glover (18) and Justin Fisher (26) were charged with his murder. Glover was sentenced to life in prison and Fisher was sentenced to 12.5 years but only served 7.
September 1999 – Steen Fenrich was murdered, apparently by his stepfather, John D. Fenrich, in Queens, New York. His dismembered remains were found in March 2000, with the phrase "gay nigger number one" scrawled on his skull along with his social security number. His stepfather fled from police while being interviewed, then killed himself.[84]
October 15, 1999 – Charles "Sissy" Bolden was found shot to death in Savannah, Georgia. Police arrested Charles E. Wilkins, Jr., in July 2003; he admitted the killing and was charged with two other homicides, according to the Savannah Police Department.[85]
July 3, 2000 – Arthur "J.R." Warren was punched and kicked to death in Grant Town, West Virginia, by two teenage boys who reportedly believed Warren had spread a rumor that he and one of the boys, David Allen Parker, had a sexual relationship. Warren's killers ran over his body to disguise the murder as a hit-and-run. Parker pleaded guilty and was sentenced to "life in prison with mercy", making him eligible for parole after 15 years.[89] His accomplice, Jared Wilson, was sentenced to 20 years.[90]
September 22, 2000 – Ronald Gay entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia, and opened fire on the patrons, killing Danny Overstreet, 43 years old, and severely injuring six others. Ronald said he was angry over what his name now meant, and deeply upset that three of his sons had changed their surname. He claimed that he had been told by God to find and kill lesbians and gay men, describing himself as a "Christian Soldier working for my Lord"; Gay testified in court that "he wished he could have killed more fags", before several of the shooting victims as well as Danny Overstreet's family and friends.[91]
January 14, 2001 – Tzatzi Sanchez, a Mexican 27-year-old lesbian woman, was tied up, raped and then strangled in her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Luis Barroso and Obed Marroquin-Valle. Barroso had been hired by Sanchez's ex-girlfriend, Marcela Whaley, to murder her. Marroquin-Valle had broken into Sanchez's home with Barroso, but had not conspired with Whaley.[92]
June 16, 2001 – Fred Martinez Jr., a 16-year-old transgender and two-spirit student, was bludgeoned to death near Cortez, Colorado, by 18-year-old Shaun Murphy, who reportedly bragged about attacking a "fag".[93][94]
August 25, 2001 Gary Raynall was found brutally beaten to death in Leawood, Kansas. The case is still unsolved and family members believe his death was a hate crime.[95]
December 12, 2001 – Terrianne Summers, a 51-year-old trans woman and activist for transgender rights, was shot and killed in her front yard in Florida. No arrests were made, and police did not investigate her murder as a hate crime.[96] Terrianne's high visibility as a trans woman due to her work as an activist has led her to be included in lists of anti-LGBTQ hate crimes, although lack of police interest in her murder means the motives behind the killing may never be known.
May 17, 2002 – Gary McMurtry "Brazon" a 36-year-old Ohio drag queen performer was stabbed with a sword by Michael Jennings. Jennings was sentenced to 25 years to life.[97]
June 12, 2002 – Philip Walsted, a gay man, was fatally beaten with a baseball bat. According to prosecutors, the neo-Nazi views of Walsted's assailant, David Higdon, led to what was originally a robbery escalating to murder. Higdon was sentenced to life in prison, plus an additional sentence for robbery.[98]
August 6, 2002 – Rodney Velasquez, a 26-year-old Latino gay man, was found murdered in the bathtub of his Bronx apartment.[99]
October 3, 2002 – Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a 17-year-old teenage trans woman, was tortured and murdered by four men, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender. Two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, but not the requested hate-crime enhancements to the charges. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no-contest to voluntary manslaughter.
December 24, 2002 – Nizah Morris, a 47-year-old black trans woman, was possibly murdered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[100]
May 11, 2003 – Sakia Gunn, a black 15-year-old lesbian, was murdered in Newark, New Jersey. While waiting for a bus, Gunn and her friends were propositioned by two men. When the girls rejected their advances, declaring themselves to be lesbians, the men attacked them. One of the men, Richard McCullough, fatally stabbed Gunn. In exchange for his pleading guilty to several lesser crimes including aggravated manslaughter, prosecutors dropped murder charges against McCullough, who was sentenced to 20 years.[101][102]
June 17, 2003 – Guin Richie Phillips of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was killed by Joshua Cottrell. His body was later found in a suitcase in Rough River Lake. During his trial, two of Cottrell's relatives testified that he lured Phillips to his death, and killed him because he was gay.[103] Cottrell was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison –[104] the maximum allowed by Kentucky statute – despite a jury recommendation of 30 years, which made Cottrell eligible for parole two-and-a-half years after the trial ended in February 2005.[105]
July 23, 2003 – Nireah Johnson and her friend, Brandie Coleman, were shot to death by Paul Moore, when Moore learned after a sexual encounter that Johnson was transgender.[106] Moore then burned his victims' bodies. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 120 years in prison.[107]
July 31, 2003 – 37-year-old Glenn Kopitske was shot and stabbed in the back by 17-year-old Gary Hirte[108] in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Prosecutors contended that Hirte murdered Kopitske to see if he could get away with it.[109] Hirte pleaded insanity, claiming he killed Kopitske in a murderous rage after a consensual sexual encounter with the victim, because he felt a homosexual act was "worse than murder". The 'temporary insanity' mitigation plea was not upheld, he was found guilty, and received a life sentence.
August 2003 – Emonie Spaulding, a black 25-year-old trans woman, was shot to death in Washington, D.C., by Derrick Antwan Lewis after he discovered she was trans.[110]
December, 2003 – Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz, two 26-year-old gay men, were raped, tortured and murdered by Steven Lorenzo, in Tampa, Florida. Galehouse's body was never found. Lorenzo was sentenced to death.[111]
June 5, 2004 – 23-year-old Jesse Valencia was murdered on Columbia, Missouri by his gay lover, Steven Arthur Rios, who was married and was a police officer. Rios was sentenced to life in prison.[112]
July 22, 2004 – 18-year-old Scotty Joe Weaver of Bay Minette, Alabama, was murdered. His burned and partially decomposed body was discovered a few miles from the mobile home in which he lived. He was beaten, strangled and stabbed numerous times, and his body was doused in gasoline and set on fire. Three people were charged with capital murder and robbery in connection with the crime, two of whom were Weaver's roommates: Christopher Gaines, aged 20, Nichole Kelsay, aged 18, and Robert Porter, aged 18. Nichole Kelsay had been Weaver's friend throughout most of his life.[113] Gaines pleaded guilty to capital murder in May 2007 and was sentenced to life without parole. In September 2007, Porter also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.[114] Nichole Kelsay pleaded guilty and received a 20-year sentence.[115]
July 28, 2004 – Roderick George, a 40-year-old man, died in Montgomery, Alabama from a gunshot wound. He had been found in his car on July 27. The suspect in the case, Anthony T. Johnson, confessed to the crime, claiming that George made sexual advances and even "lunged at" Johnson. Police charged Johnson with capital murder.[116]
October 2, 2004 – Daniel Fetty, a gay man who was hearing-impaired and homeless, was attacked by multiple assailants in Waverly, Ohio. Fetty was beaten, stomped, shoved nude into a garbage bin, impaled with a stick, and left for dead; he succumbed to his injuries the next day. Prosecutors alleged a hate crime. Three men received sentences ranging from seven years to life.[117]
January 28, 2005 – Ronnie Antonio Paris, a three-year-old boy living in Tampa, Florida, died due to brain injuries inflicted by his father, Ronnie Paris, Jr. According to his mother and other relatives, Ronnie Paris, Jr., repeatedly slammed his son into walls, slapped the child's head, and "boxed" him because he was concerned the child was gay and would grow up a sissy. Paris was sentenced to thirty years in prison.[118][119]
On February 27, 2005, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21-year-old James Maestas was assaulted outside a restaurant, then followed to a hotel and beaten unconscious by men who called him "faggot" during the attack. Although all of his attackers were charged with committing a hate crime, none was sentenced to prison.[120]
March 11, 2005 – Jason Gage, an openly gay man, was murdered in his Waterloo, Iowa, apartment by an assailant, Joseph Lawrence, who claimed Gage had made sexual advances to him. Gage was bludgeoned to death with a bottle, and stabbed in the neck, probably post-mortem, with a shard of glass.[121] Lawrence was sentenced to fifty years in prison.
October 19, 2005 – Billy Sanford, a 52-year-old man, was attacked by handyman Marcus Dewayne Kelley, 26, in Montgomery, Alabama. Kelley claimed that Sanford had made repeated sexual advances toward him. Kelley beat Sanford with a hammer, putting him in a coma.[122] Kelley was apprehended November 14, 2005.[123] Sanford remained in a coma through at least December 6, 2005.[124]
November 26, 2005 – James Oliver Bailey, an 80-year-old man, was murdered in his home in Lake Jordan, Alabama. He was murdered by Chris Nieves of Marbury, Alabama who hit the elderly man with a two-by-four and later claimed that Bailey made sexual advances toward him.[122][124]
February 2, 2006 – 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida entered a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, confirmed that it was a gay bar, and then attacked patrons with a hatchet and a handgun, wounding three.[126] He fatally shot himself three days later.[127]
October 8, 2006 – Michael Sandy was attacked by four young heterosexual men who lured him into meeting after chatting online, while they were looking for gay men to rob. He was struck by a car while trying to escape his attackers, and died five days later without regaining consciousness.[131][132]
February 27, 2007 – Andrew Anthos, a 72-year-old disabled gay man, was beaten with a lead pipe in Detroit, Michigan, by a man who was shouting anti-gay slurs at him. Anthos died 10 days later in the hospital.[133]
March 15, 2007 – Ryan Keith Skipper, a 25-year-old gay man, was stabbed to death in Wahneta, Florida. Four suspects were arrested for the crime. The Sheriff called it a hate crime.[134]
March 16, 2007 – Ruby Ordeñana, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman, was found naked and strangled to death in San Francisco, California, at 5:40 am.[135][136] Donzell Francis, who was suspected of raping and strangling Ordeñana, was convicted on December 23, 2009, and sentenced to 17 years and 18 months in prison for forcible oral copulation, robbery, assault causing great bodily injury, and false imprisonment of another transgender woman.[137]
May 12, 2007 – Roberto Duncanson was murdered in Brooklyn, New York. He was stabbed to death by Omar Willock, who claimed Duncanson had flirted with him.[138]
May 16, 2007 – Sean William Kennedy, 20, was walking to his car from Brew's Bar in Greenville, South Carolina, when Stephen Andrew Moller, 18, got out of another car and approached Kennedy. Investigators said that Moller made a comment about Kennedy's sexual orientation, and threw a fatal punch because he did not like the other man's sexual preference.[139]
October 2007 – Steven Domer, a 62-year-old gay man, was murdered in Oklahoma.[142]
January 8, 2008 – Stacey Brown, a black 30-year-old trans woman, was found dead in her apartment. She had been shot in the head.[144]
July 1, 2008 – Ebony Whitaker, an African American trans woman, was shot and killed in Memphis.[145]
February 2008 – Duanna Johnson, a trans woman, was beaten by a police officer while she was held in the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Tennessee. Johnson said the officers reportedly called her a "faggot" and "he-she", before and during the incident.[146] In November 2008, she was found dead in the street, reportedly gunned down by three unknown individuals.[147]
February 4, 2008 – Ashley Sweeney, a trans woman, was shot in the head. Her body was found in Detroit, Michigan.[148]
February 10, 2008 – Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year-old black trans woman, was stabbed to death in Bronx, New York.[149]
February 12, 2008 – Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old junior high school student, was shot twice by a classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California. He was taken off life support after doctors declared him brain dead on February 15.[150] According to Associated Press reports, "prosecutors have charged a 14-year-old classmate with premeditated murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements".[151][152][153]
February 22, 2008 – Simmie Williams Jr. was a black gender-nonconforming 17-year-old, who was shot dead on a street corner in Broward County, Florida.[154]
May 29, 2008 – Eighteen-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of the 92 Family Swans subgroup of the Bloods, was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings Jr., in Baltimore County, Maryland after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone. They felt having a gay member would make their gang appear weak. Hollis III pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, Flythe was given a life sentence with all but 30 years suspended, and 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.[155]
June 9, 2008 – Jeremy Waggoner, an openly gay hairstylist from Royal Oak, Michigan, was brutally murdered in Detroit. His murder is still unsolved.[156]
July 17, 2008 – Eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata, a 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.[157]
August 20, 2008 – Nahkia Williams, a black trans woman, was shot to death in Louisville, Kentucky. Damon Malone was charged with her murder, robbery, and burglary, and sentenced to 35 years in prison.[158]
September 7, 2008 – Tony Randolph Hunter, 27, and his partner were attacked and beaten near a gay bar in Washington, D.C. Hunter later died from his injuries on September 18. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.[159]
September 21, 2008 – 22-year-old trans woman Ruby Molina's nude body was found facedown on the bank of a river in isolated and undeveloped area in Sacramento, California.[161]
November 14, 2008 – 22-year-old Lateisha Green, a trans woman, was shot and killed by Dwight DeLee in Syracuse, New York, because he thought she was gay.[164] Local news media reported the incident with her legal name, Moses "Teish" Cannon.[165] 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 conviction in New York state.[166][167][168]
December 26, 2008 – 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.[170]
January 17, 2009 – Caprice Curry, a 31-year-old trans woman in San Francisco, California, was stabbed to death.[172]
February 18, 2009 – Two men were arrested in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, for the stabbing death of gay veteran Michael Goucher.[174]
April 6, 2009 – Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old child in Springfield, Massachusetts, hanged himself with an extension cord after being bullied all school year by peers who said "he acted feminine" and was gay.[177]
June 30, 2009 – Seaman August Provost was found shot to death and his body burned at his guard post on Camp Pendleton. LGBTQ community leaders "citing military sources initially said that Provost's death was a hate crime."[181] Provost had been harassed because of his sexual orientation.[181] Military leaders have since explained that "whatever the investigation concludes, the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy prevented Provost from seeking help."[181] Family and friends believe he was murdered because he was openly gay (or bisexual according to some family and sources);[182][183][184][185] the killer died by suicide a week later after admitting the murder, the Navy have not concluded if this was a hate crime.[186]
July 19, 2009 – Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, a lesbian couple, were raped in their apartment in South Park, Seattle by Isaiah Kalebu. Kalebu slashed Hopper's throat and stabbed Butz in the heart after she fought back. Butz died after escaping the apartment. Hopper lived and testified against Kalebu. Kalebu was sentenced to life in prison with an additional 98 years.[187]
October 25, 2009 – Dee Green, a trans woman, was found by police unconscious, stabbed in the heart, and bleeding on a street in Baltimore, Maryland. She was taken to a hospital where she died half an hour later. Larry Douglas was charged with first-degree murder in April 2010.[188]
November 2009 – Jason Mattison Jr., an openly gay 15-year-old boy, was violently murdered and raped at his aunt's house by 35-year-old Dante Parrish, a family friend who had been in prison for murder previously.[189] Parrish was convicted for Mattison's murder and in April 2012 was sentenced to life without parole (the conviction included a second life term for attempted sexual assault).[190]
December 9, 2009 – Mariah Malina Qualls' body was found in a San Francisco hotel.[191] She was a 23-year-old transgender woman who volunteered and was a member of the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's TRANS:THRIVE community.
December 25, 2009 – Robert LeCompte, a 39-year-old gay man and manager of The Drama Club in Houma, LA, was found murdered from sharp-force trauma on the floor of the club. Jorrell Young, a former employee of the venue, has been convicted of the crime; he maintains that he did not commit the killing himself, admitting only to being present when it happened.[192]
January 18, 2010 – The half-naked corpse of Myra Chanel Ical, a 51-year-old trans woman, was found in a vacant lot in Houston, Texas.[193]
March 30, 2010 – Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar, a 29-year-old Latina trans woman, was found dead in her Queens, New York, apartment. The autopsy found that her attacker, Rasheen Everett, had strangled her, then doused her body with bleach.[194] In December 2013 Everett was sentenced to 29 years to life. At sentencing Everett's lawyer, John Scarpa, disputed the sentence with the 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."[195]
May 7, 2010 – 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, after she asked him if he was okay with them having sex despite her male genitalia. She was found dead on the pavement of a Milwaukee street.[197]
June 21, 2010 – Sandy Woulard, a 28-year-old trans woman, was shot in the chest in South Side, Chicago. A passing motorist found her lying in the street, and she was pronounced dead at the hospital.[198]
September 11, 2010 – Victoria Carmen White, a 28-year-old black transgender woman, died of bullet wounds in her New Jersey apartment. It is unknown whether she was targeted by her killer, Alrashim Chambers, for her gender identity.[199]
October 14, 2010 – Stacey Blahnik Lee, a 31-year-old black trans woman, was found murdered in her Philadelphia home by her boyfriend.[203]
November 17, 2010 – 18-year-old Joshua Wilkerson was found dead in a field in Pearland, Texas, after being beaten to death and set on fire by a friend of five years, Hermilo Moralez. This was supposedly retaliation for unwanted sexual advances.[204]
December 2010 – Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Duane Adams, a married gay couple from Florida, were shot in their home by Peter Avsenew. Peter Avsenew in his conviction sent a letter to a judge, which said "You will never be able to stop me. It is my duty as a white man to cull the weak and timid from existence. I will stand up for what I believe in and eradicate anything in my way. Homosexuals are a disgrace to mankind and must be put down. These weren't the first and they won't be the last". Avsenew was initially sentenced to death but after a new trial, he was sentenced to life in prison.[205]
January 11, 2011 – Chrissie Bates, a 45-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed to death in her downtown Minneapolis apartment. Arnold Darwin Waukazo was sentenced to 367 months in prison for the murder.[206]
January 12, 2011 – The body of Murray Seidman, a 70-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was discovered stoned to death by John Joe Thomas. Thomas and Seidman were friends prior to the murder and Thomas had convinced Seidman to sign over power of attorney to him. The Delaware County, Pennsylvania medical examiner determined that Seidman died between January 2 and January 7, 2011. Thomas initially acted distraught after calling the police himself on January 12, but he later raised a gay panic defense. Seidman's brother Lenny refuted any such claims. Eventually, Thomas pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison.[207]
February 19, 2011 – Tyra Trent, a black 25-year-old trans woman, was found strangled to death in a vacant house.[208]
March 2011 – Tory Minnick, a bisexual 21-year-old woman was shot twice in the head by her girlfriend, Erin Everett. After shooting her, Everett smashed Minnick's face with a claw hammer.[209]
April 18, 2011 - Norma Hurtado and Maria Hurtado, a young lesbian woman and her mother respectively, were shot by Jose Aviles at their home in Houston, Texas. Aviles disapproved of Norma Hurtado's relationship with his daughter, and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.[216][217]
June 2011 – Rosita Hernandez, a Cuban trans woman, was stabbed to death in Miami.[220] In November 2011, Miguel Pavon was charged with first-degree murder after his DNA was matched with samples found in the victim's residence.[221]
July 20, 2011 – Lashai Mclean, a 23-year-old African American trans woman, was shot to death in Northeast, Washington, D.C.[225]
August 11, 2011 – Camila Guzman, a Latina transgender woman, was found murdered in her apartment in East Harlem, Manhattan.[226]
October 11, 2011 – Shelley Hilliard, a black transgender teen who had been reported missing, had her burnt torso identified by police in Detroit.[228] Her killer, 30-year-old Qasim Raqib, was sentenced on March 6, 2012, to 25–40 years in jail.[229]
November 15, 2011 – Danny Vega, a 58-year-old Asian-American gay man who worked as a hairdresser in Rainier Valley, Seattle, was beaten and robbed as he was taking a walk. The beating left Vega in a coma from which he later died.[230]
November 17, 2011 – Cassidy Nathan Vickers, a 32-year-old black transgender woman, died from a gunshot wound to the chest in Hollywood. Her killer, who is still unidentified, is also suspected of shooting and attempting to rob another black transgender woman on the same day.[231]
December 17, 2011 – Charlie Hernandez, a 26-year-old who was openly gay, was stabbed to death following a brawl that included anti-gay slurs that occurred with two men after he accidentally stepped on some sunglasses.[232]
December 24, 2011 – Dee Dee Pearson, a 31-year-old transgender woman, died from bullet wounds in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenyan L. Jones was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Jones told police he paid to have sexual relations with Pearson, believing her to be a cisgender woman, but hours after having sex with her, discovered she was not.[233] Angered by what he considered to be a deception, he got a 9 mm caliber handgun, found Ms Pearson, and killed her.[234] Jones was arrested on suspicion of her murder.[235]
December 29, 2011 – The body of Give Goines, a black 23-year-old trans woman[236] who had been reported missing two weeks beforehand, was found in a scrapheap in New Orleans. An autopsy set that the time of her death as much as two days before her body was discovered and that she had been strangled.[237]
2012
January 21, 2012 – Crain Conaway, a 47-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead in her home in Oceanside, California.[238] Tyree Paschall Monday was arrested in connection with her murder.[239]
April 3, 2012 – Coko Williams, a black trans woman, was found murdered in East Detroit, Michigan. The homicide may have been related to Coko's involvement in sex work.[245]
April 16, 2012 – Paige Clay, 23, an African-American transgender woman, was found dead, with a bullet wound to her face in West Garfield Park, Chicago. The death was ruled as a homicide.[246]
May 11–12, 2012 – Lorena Escalera, a 25-year-old Latina transgender woman who performed under the name Lorena Xtravaganza, was found dead in her apartment in Bushwick after the building had been set ablaze.[248]
June 22, 2012 – Mollie Judith Olgin, 19 years old, and her girlfriend, Mary Kristene Chapa, 18 years old, were sexually assaulted and shot in the head near Violet Andrews Park in Portland, Texas. Olgin died at the scene and Chapa survived. David Strickland has been charged with the murder of Olgin and sentenced to life.[252]
July 5, 2012 – Tracy Johnson, a 40-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead from gunshot wounds in Baltimore, Maryland.[253]
August 14, 2012 – Tiffany Gooden, a 19-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found murdered on the second floor of an abandoned building in Chicago. An autopsy verified that she had been stabbed to death. Notably, the body of Paige Clay, another young black trans woman, was discovered April the same year 3 blocks away from where Tiffany was found. The pair were known as friends.[254]
August 18, 2012 – Kendall Hampton, a 26-year-old African-American transgender woman, died of gunshot wounds. Eugene Carlos Dukes was arrested in early September for her murder, and indicted later that month.[255]
August 26, 2012 – Deja Jones, a 33-year-old African-American transgender woman, was shot to death in Miami. No arrest had been made.[256]
September 3, 2012 – The body of Kyra Cordova, a 27-year-old transgender woman, was found in a wooded area in Frankford, Philadelphia.[257]
October 15, 2012 – Janette Tovar, a 43-year-old transgender woman was murdered by her partner, Jonathan Kenney, according to police, who beat her and slammed her head into the concrete. He was later arrested for her murder.[258]
May 18, 2013 – Mark Carson, a 32-year-old African-American gay man,[261] was shot to death by another man who trailed and taunted him and a friend as they walked down the street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. When the two friends ignored the assailant's questions, the man began yelling anti-gay slurs and asked one of them, "You want to die tonight?" Elliot Morales, 33, was arrested briefly after the shooting and charged with murder and weapons charges on May 19.[262] According to police, Morales said he shot Carson because he was "acting tough".[263] Morales pleaded not guilty, but on March 9, 2016, he was convicted by a Manhattan jury of murder as a hate crime.[264] Morales was sentenced on June 14, 2016, to 40 years to life in prison.
May 22, 2013 – Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy, was tortured and murdered by his mother and her boyfriend because they believed the child to be gay. Prosecutor Jon Hatami detailed the acts allegedly committed by Isauro Aguirre and the boy's mother, Pearl Fernandez, who also faces trial. Hatami explained that the Palmdale couple 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 a 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. The couple called first responders to treat Gabriel, but that was only in an attempt to mislead, the prosecutor said.[265] In June 2018, Aguirre was sentenced to death and Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
October 13, 2013 – Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her girlfriend Mary Perkins, was bound, gagged, tortured, and murdered by her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, at Kern Valley State Prison in California. Miguel Crespo was sentenced to death in 2019.[267]
November 4, 2013 – Sasha Fleischman, an agender 18-year-old, had their skirt set on fire while they were sleeping on an AC Transit bus in Oakland, California. Police arrested 16-year-old Richard Thomas and charged him with felony assault, with an enhancement of inflicting great bodily injury. Thomas admitted to police that he had started the fire and that he did it because he was "homophobic".[268] On November 14, 2014, Thomas was sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention for his crime,[269] but his sentence was reduced in 2015 to five years.[270] The attack on Fleischman and their recovery were the subject of an article in the New York Times Magazine,[271] which later became the basis for a related non-fiction book titled The 57 Bus.[272]
March 6, 2014 – Britney Cosby, 24, and Crystal Jackson, 24, a lesbian couple, were murdered by Britney's father, James Larry Cosby. Britney was strangled and beaten to death. Crystal was also beaten and strangled, though a gunshot wound to her temple was the cause of death. James Cosby was sentenced to life in prison.[279]
June 1, 2014 – Ahmed Said, 27, and Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, were killed execution-style shortly after midnight in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle shortly after they left a gay nightclub. Both victims were gay, and Ahmed was apparently lured by being contacted on Grindr, a social app popular with gay men. Anderson-Young was receiving a ride home from Ahmed Said. The case was soon investigated as a possible hate crime. Both Said and Anderson-Young were shot multiple times; Anderson-Young died inside Said's car, while Said died immediately outside.[280] Suspect Ali Muhammad Brown has confessed to killing Said, Anderson-Young, and two men in Seattle and New Jersey, both of whom were not gay. Brown had previously been convicted of bank fraud and is believed to be in support of Muslim terrorists in Somalia. He told investigators that he was guided strictly by his faith, and that the killings were "just" because they were in retaliation for actions by the U.S. government in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.[281]
October 18, 2014 – Tawnee Marie Baird, a 21-year-old woman was stabbed 46 times by her girlfriend, Victoria Mendoza.[282]
February 1, 2015 – Taja DeJesus, 36, a trans woman, was found stabbed to death in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California.[283]
June 1, 2015 – Mercedes Williamson, a 17-year-old transgender woman studying to be a cosmetologist, was murdered in George County, Mississippi.[285] In 2016, the Justice Department used the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act to bring criminal charges against a person for selecting a victim because of their gender identity for the first time.[286] Joshua Vallum pleaded guilty in the case, stating that he used a stun gun to incapacitate her before stabbing and beating her to death all in an effort to keep fellow members of the Latin Kings from learning of their sexual relationship. He was sentenced to 49 years in 2017.[287]
April 29, 2016 – Steven Nelson a 49-year-old gay man, was assaulted by Kelly Schneider, 23, in a secluded wildlife area near Lake Lowell, Idaho. Scheinder kicked Nelson 20-30 times with steel-toed boots, after which he was robbed of his clothes, his credit cards and his car keys and left to die in the cold. Nelson was able to get up and walk to a nearby home and call for help. He was taken to Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise but died later that morning. Schneider was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 28 years.[292] Three others were involved. While Schneider confessed to murdering Nelson because of Nelson's homosexuality, Jayson Lee Woods orchestrated the crime. Woods was sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after 23 years, and an additional five years for running a prostitution ring - of which Schneider had agreed to be a part.[293] Kevin Tracy and Daniel Aragon Henkel waited in the trees nearby to 'assist' Schneider in the assault; Tracy was sentenced to six months in jail with ten years probation.[294] Henkel was sentenced to a minimum of 4 years.[295]
June 12, 2016 – A massacre at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse left 49 dead and 53 wounded. The gunman, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was an American citizen of Afghan descent who pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization ISIS in a 9-1-1 call he made about the attack.[296] ISIS also claimed responsibility for the attack.[297] The incident was the largest attack targeting LGBTQ people in the US.[298]
July 23, 2016 – Dee Whigham, a 25-year-old African-American transgender woman employed as a nurse, was stabbed 119 times in a Jackson County, Mississippi hotel. Police arrested Dwanya Porche Hickerson, a 20-year-old sailor stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, for the murder.[299] He pleaded guilty on July 20, 2017. During his plea, Hickerson admitted that he killed Whigham after they had sexual intercourse and Whigham informed him that she was transgender. Circuit Court Judge Robert Krebs accepted the DA's recommendation of 40 years for Whigham's murder as well as 8 years for the robbery of her person that night.[300]
August 11, 2016 – Rae'Lynn Thomas, a 28-year-old transgender woman, was shot twice in front of her mother, and then beaten to death by James Allen Byrd, her mother's ex-boyfriend, in Columbus, Ohio. Byrd called her "the devil" and made transphobic comments towards her.[302]
November 11, 2016 – Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed, a lesbian couple, and their adult son, Benny Diambu-Wright were murdered by Dana Rivers, a transgender woman, in East Oakland, California.[304] Rivers was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Scott Patton on June 14, 2023.[305]
January 4, 2017 – The body of Mesha Caldwell, a 41-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found in Madison County, Mississippi with multiple gunshot wounds.[306]
June 13, 2017 – The body of Josie Barrios, a 28-year-old transgender woman who performed with House of Merlot under the name Kimbella Rosé, was found with burn marks in Ithaca, New York[310] near Cornell University, at the construction site of the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education. Michael Davis, Barrios' 47-year-old boyfriend, pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in March 2018.[311]
June 25, 2017 – Ava Le'Ray Barrin, a 17-year-old African-American transgender woman, was killed in an altercation with Jalen Breon Brown, also an African-American transgender woman. Brown shot Barrin during their fight.[312] Brown had been charged with murder, but in a May 2018 evidentiary hearing, Judge Eric Norris dismissed the murder charge, ruling that the shooting was self-defense.[313] The media reporting on the incident sparked national conversation on proper use of gender in news reports and on deadnaming.[314]
July 31, 2017 – College Park, Georgia fire and rescue transported TeeTee Dangerfield, a 32-year-old transgender woman of color, to Grady Memorial Hospital, where she later died. She had been found in her car near an apartment complex.[317] She had been shot 19 times in the abdomen and groin.[318] Tyrone Kemp, 26, was arrested August 22 in Union City, Georgia.[319] Kemp was acquitted on November 24, 2021, and filed suit November 21, 2023 against College Park police officer Kevin Pogorzelski, alleging violation of Kemp's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.[318]
September 16, 2017 – Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old non-binary student at Georgia Tech,[321] was shot and killed by officer Tyler Beck of the Georgia Tech police department.[322] Schultz had approached the officers yelling for them to shoot while holding their arms downward and holding what officers at the time identified as a pocket knife.[323] The university settled a wrongful death suit filed by Schultz's family for $1,000,000[321] after the Fulton County DA stated charges would not be filed against Beck.[322]
September 2017 – Ally Steinfeld, a transgender teenager, was stabbed to death and mutilated by three young people in Cabool, Missouri.[324]
October 31, 2017 – The body of Candace Towns, a 30-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found in Macon, Georgia. Towns had been shot in the face.[325] Police arrested Horace Jamal Marsh for the crime on July 6, 2020.[326] Marsh was also arrested in the Halloween 2017 shooting of Kithwe Steed – an unrelated incident – which went to trial in 2022.[327] Marsh was convicted in that case and sentenced to 25 years in prison.[328] The same gun was used in both incidents.[329]
January 2, 2018 – Blaze Bernstein, an openly gay Jewish college student, was stabbed more than 20 times. Samuel Woodward, an avowed neo-Nazi and member of the group Atomwaffen Division, was charged with his murder.[332]
March 7, 2018 – Ta'Ron 'Rio' Carson, a gay man, was fatally shot as he left the Aura nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri.[333]
March 28, 2018 – Amia Tyrae, a black transgender woman, was found dead in a motel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with multiple gunshot wounds. Nevaa White, a friend of Tyrae's, said that Tyrae had lived her life as an openly trans woman since 2009. White also said Tyrae was bullied and "didn't have an easy life."[334]
May 25, 2018 – Roxana Hernández, a 33-year-old Latina transgender woman from Honduras who sought asylum in the U.S. at San Ysidro, died while in ICE custody. Initially, ICE detained her for deportation, citing a previous illegal entry and convictions in Texas for theft and prostitution. She had arrived on May 9. On May 15, she was moved from California to Milan, New Mexico and held at Cibola County Correctional Center. She was admitted to Cibola General Hospital on May 17. On May 25, she died in transit to Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque.[335] ICE stated that Hernández had a heart attack and complications associated with HIV, but an independent autopsy showed that not only was Hernández's death preventable, but that she had been beaten with a baton while in restraints. Kamala Harris, Tom Udall, and Martin Heinrich – all then Senators – demanded a full report be presented to Congress as required within 60 days by law, a report that ICE had failed to produce a full six months after Hernández's death.[336] As a result of Hernández's custodial death, her family sued CoreCivic, LaSalle Corrections Transport, Global Precision Systems, Management and Training Corporation, TransCor America, and the United States federal government.[337]
June 21, 2018 – Anthony Avalos, a ten-year old, succumbed to fatal abuse injuries in a hospital. When his mothvent in Salt Lake City, Utah.[338]
January 6, 2019 – Dana Martin, a 31-year-old transgender woman, was found dead of a gunshot wound in Montgomery, Alabama.[345]
March 30, 2019 – Ashanti Carmon, a 27-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered in Prince George's County, Maryland.[349] Police offered a $25,000 reward for information on the murder. A witness, Zoe Spears, came forward and gave a statement in a three-hour interview with police. She provided a name and a phone number, but the case remains unsolved.[350]
May 18, 2019 – Muhlaysia Booker, a 22-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead near Tenison Park Golf Course in Dallas. She had been shot; Kendrell Lyles pleaded guilty to the murder in November 2023 and was sentenced to 48 years in prison. Her murder followed a brutal instance of mob violence following a minor traffic accident on April 12, 2019, in which someone offered one man $200 to assault Booker. Other men joined in, one of them stomping on her head. The incident was recorded and posted on social media. Edward Thomas was arrested and charged in the assault.[356]
June 1, 2019 – Chynal Lindsey, a 26-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found strangled in White Rock Lake in Texas. The timing of the murder in conjunction with other homicides of transgender women led to media speculation of a possible serial killer operating in the Dallas area.[358] However, Dallas police arrested Ruben Alvarado for Lindsey's murder. He admitted to the murder in testimony, as an affirmative defense, claiming that Lindsey had straddled him while they were at the lake to have sex. Alvarado then stated that he discovered Lindsey was transgender, and she become aggressive when he confronted her, so he pinned her, took off his belt, and strangled her to death before dumping her body in the lake.[359] The jury found Alvarado guilty of first-degree murder on November 10, 2021, and sentenced him to 37 years in prison on November 11, 2021.[360]
June 13, 2019 – Zoe Spears, a 23-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered in Fairmount Heights, Maryland.[361] Though Spears had given police a statement that she had witnessed the murder of Ashanti Carmon,[350] Prince George's County police would not confirm any relation between the incidents.[361] Detectives arrested Gerardo Thomas and charged him with first-degree murder.[362] Though Thomas initially stated he had nothing to do with the murder, his attorney argued in court that Thomas had feared for his life.[363] His trial was postponed due to COVID[364] but he pleaded guilty on September 9, 2020, and was sentenced by Maryland Circuit Court Judge Dorothy Engel on November 13, 2020, to 40 years for the charge of second-degree murder, with 20 years suspended as well as credited for time already served, and 5 years for the use of a gun in the commission of a crime of violence. The sentences are concurrent.[365]
August 7, 2019 – Chanel Wortham, also known as CoCo Wortham or Miss Coco, a 44-year-old African-American transgender woman originally from Kansas City, Kansas, was shot in a homeless encampment in Dallas. She was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.[368]
August 2019 – Pebbles LaDime "Dime" Doe, a 24-year-old transgender woman was shot and killed by Daqua Ritter in a rural area of Allendale County. During the four-day trial, federal prosecutors alleged Ritter was upset there were rumors out in the community about his sexual relationship with Doe, according to the release.[369]
December 24, 2019 – Kevin Bacon, a 25-year-old gay hairdresser, was murdered after meeting up with Mark David Latunski via Grindr. When police arrived at Latunski's Bennington Township, MI home, they found Bacon's body in the basement, hanging upside down. Latunski had already eaten some of Bacon's remains. Latunski was sentenced to life imprisonment.[375]
February 24, 2020 – Alexa Negrón Luciano, also known as Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, a 29-year-old transgender homeless woman, was murdered in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.[377] Prior to her body being found, three men saw her standing on the side of the road and began harassing her, then assaulted her with a paint gun. Her assailants admitted to recognizing her from transphobic social media posts made following her use of a women's restroom at a McDonald's on February 23, targeting her because of those posts. Two of the three assailants posted recordings of the assault on social media, deleting the footage after Luciano's body was found.[378] No arrests have been made in connection with the murder.[379]
June 8, 2020 – Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, a 27-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered in Philadelphia. Her body was found in the Schuylkill River, her legs severed.[384] Akhenaton Jones has been arrested and charged in the murder. He has alleged police misconduct during the investigation, and was scheduled for trial on February 12, 2024.[385]
June 9, 2020 – Riah Milton, a 25-year-old African-American transgender woman, was lured to a park in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio[384] by Tyree Cross, Kaleb Tooson, and an unnamed 14-year-old girl who tried to rob her and steal her car. They assaulted her before Tooson shot Milton, and also himself. Both Cross and Tooson pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 15 years to life.[386]
June 25, 2020 – Brayla Stone, a 17-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found fatally shot in a car in Sherwood, Arkansas. Trevone Hayse Miller pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the case in exchange for a 50-year prison sentence. The two had been involved in a sexual relationship at the time, and Miller stated he murdered Stone to keep that from being revealed.[388]
June 30, 2020 – Merci Richey, a 22-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in a parking lot in Dallas, Texas.[389] Police initially arrested Angelo Walker, but have since dropped the case as he neither matched the original description of the murderer provided by a witness nor did his DNA match that collected by police. The person who initially told police Walker committed the crime was a better match to the first witness' description. Police have yet to locate that individual again.[390]
July 1, 2020 – Shakie Peters, a 32-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead of gunshot wounds in Amite City, Louisiana.[391] She was last seen in the company of Lynette Muse and Christopher Causey, who were indicted by a St. Helena Parish grand jury for the murder.[392] Causey was acquitted in a jury trial in 2022. Muse pleaded no contest to manslaughter. She was given a 15-year suspended sentence and ordered to serve three years probation instead.[393]
July 3, 2020 – Bree Nuk Black, a 27-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered on a street filled with people in Pompano Beach, Florida.[394] Despite offering a $10,000 reward, the Broward County Sheriff's office still had not received any viable tips from witnesses two years after the murder.[395]
July 5, 2020 – Cherry Bush, a homeless 48-year-old transgender woman, was shot to death in Los Angeles. Her alleged killer has been charged with a hate crime.[396]
July 13, 2020 – The body of Marilyn Cazares, a 22-year-old Latina transgender woman, was found inside an abandoned house in Brawley, California. Police had been called to the scene in response to a burning couch. According to family members, Cazares' death was a result of stabbing.[397]
November 20, 2020 – Asia Jynaé Foster, a 22-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in Houston, Texas on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Jemal Tyrelle Richards was arrested by the Houston PD in connection with the murder in October 2022.[403]
December 22, 2020 – The body of Timothy Paul Allen, a 65-year-old gay man employed as a pianist and delivery driver, was found on December 23 in Dallas. Police stated that he died on December 22 after making a delivery; he was found shot in his car. On February 5, 2021, Tristin Howard, 17, and Qaulin Curlin, 18, were arrested and charged with capital murder.[404] Howard pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 35 years on March 23, 2023.[405] Curlin pleaded to aggravated robbery and was sentenced to 10 years on August 11, 2023.[406]
January 30–31, 2021 – Kaylie M. Harris, a 21-year-old lesbian woman holding the rank of private first class (PFC) in the U.S. Army where she served as a military police officer (MP) with the 673rd Security Forces Squadron, was raped by an unnamed U.S. Air Force airman after publicly stating her sexual orientation on Facebook. Though her rapist was ordered not to have contact with her after she filed a report, he was not confined, and they were both assigned the same duty on the Anchorage, AK base. On May 2, Harris took her own life.[411]
March 18, 2021 – The body of Aidelen Evans, a 24-year-old African-American transgender woman, was discovered in Port Arthur, Texas. Her family had last seen her in February 2021.[413] As the investigation unfolded, the case was transferred to the Beaumont PD.[414]
March 22, 2021 – A gunman fired into a home of an unidentified victim with the intent to kill in Basin, Montana. The indictment for John Russell Howard includes that he wanted to, "get rid of the lesbians [and] gays."[416]
April 23, 2021 – Iris Santos, a 22-year-old African-American transgender woman, was shot outside a Chick-fil-A in Montrose, Houston. The police have admitted that the crime does not appear to have robbery as a motive as nothing was taken. Crime Stoppers offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the killer's capture.[417]
May 11, 2021 – The body of Poe Black, also known as Legion and Oliver Jackson, a 21-year-old mixed indigenous transgender non-binary person,[418] was found in the Coachella Canal in Slab City, an unincorporated area of Niland, California. He had been stabbed multiple times.[419]
May 19, 2021 – The body of James Allen White, a 55-year-old gay man, was found on the campus of Paul Quinn College in Dallas. He had been missing since October 22, 2020.[420]
June 12, 2021 – Tierramarie Lewis, a 36-year-old African-American transgender woman, was shot in the Fairfax neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Police had her transported to the hospital, where she died from the gunshot wound.[422]
July 17, 2021 – Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old African-American transgender woman, was murdered in her apartment in Suitland, Maryland by her boyfriend, DeAllen Price when he learned that she was transgender. Price pleaded guilty to the charge of second-degree murder and using a firearm in a crime of violence in October 2023. The judge sentenced Price to 60 years in prison on January 24, 2024, with 12 of those years suspended.[427]
August 13, 2021 – Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner, a married lesbian couple were killed by gunshot wounds by Adam Pinkusiewicz, the motive for the murders is unknown.[430]
September 20, 2021 – Justin Wayne Dixon, a 30-year-old gay man, was shot in Oak Lawn, Dallas in what police believe was a robbery. He died at the scene.[432]
September 30, 2021 – Kiér Laprí Kartier, a 21-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found unresponsive, with a gunshot wound, in a car in Arlington, Texas.[433] She was transported to Arlington Memorial Hospital; she died from her injuries.[434]
November 2, 2021 – Jenny de Leon, a Latina transgender woman, was found murdered in Tampa, Florida. de Leon was a frequent attendee of local PFLAG meetings.[436]
March 19, 2022 – A man was stabbed in the abdomen after leaving a convenience store in Las Vegas. Dontay Gray confessed during questioning, stating that he had purchased the knife only an hour before. Gray had been watching the victim while he was shopping in the company of another man. Gray defined himself as "incredibly homophobic" and stated that if released, he intended to murder LGBTQ individuals.[440]
April 2, 2022 – Ariyanna Mitchell, a 17-year-old trans girl, was shot and killed at a party in Hampton, Virginia, allegedly by Jimmy Leshawn Williams, with an assault rifle. A witness testified that Mitchell was shot after Williams asked if she was a "boy or a girl".[441]
May 26, 2022 – DeeDee Hall, a 47-year-old African-American transgender woman died while in police custody in Dallas. Police were responding to reports of a person having a mental health emergency; Hall's family later reported that she suffered from what they referred to as "bipolar schizophrenia". While police initially attempted to calm Hall, when she began to disrobe, the officers used force to restrain Hall - including placing a spit hood on her, insisted on using male pronouns to address her, and made jokes as she repeatedly told them she was having difficulty breathing. Hall was pronounced DOA when the ambulance eventually arrived at Baylor University Hospital.[444]
June 15, 2022 – Brazil Johnson, a 28-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found shot dead in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[445]
July 20, 2022 – Keshia Chanel Geter, a 26-year-old African-American transgender woman was fatally shot at a Knights Inn in Augusta, GA. Jaquarie Allen, a 22-year-old man, was charged in the murder the next day.[447]
July 25, 2022 – Hayden Davis, a 28-year-old African-American transgender woman was fatally shot in Detroit. Witnesses claimed she jumped from a vehicle and her murderer shot her multiple times while she attempted to flee.[450]
August 27, 2022 – Dede Ricks, a 33-year-old African-American transgender woman from Ohio was fatally shot in Detroit. Deontae Antoine Close, a 31-year-old African-American man, was arrested the same day and charged in connection to the murder.[453]
August 29, 2022 – Regina Allen, a 35-year-old African-American transgender woman, was shot and killed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On May 28, 2024, Clayton Hubbird pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide.[454]
November 19–20, 2022 – A mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, left five people dead and 25 injured.[459] Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty for the shooting at Club Q, and was sentenced to 55 life sentences without parole as well as a 190-year prison term by US District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney on June 18, 2024.[460]
January 18, 2023 – The body of KC Lee Johnson, a 27-year-old transgender woman, was found on the banks of the Savannah River in Georgia. Johnson had been reported missing on January 14. William Haven Hicks was arrested for Johnson's kidnapping and subsequent murder.[462]
February 7, 2023 – The body of DeAndre Matthews, a 19-year-old African-American gay man studying criminal justice at SUNY Broome Community College, was found on the tracks in a freight train yard in Flatbush with a bullet wound to the head and having been burned. His lungs showed signs of smoke inhalation. 19-year-old Isiah Baez and 24-year-old Remy McPrecia have been charged in the murder.[463]
February 26, 2023 – Cashay Henderson, a 33-year-old African-American transgender woman, was found shot dead in her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which had been set on fire. Milwaukee police charged Cordell Howze with the murder and arson. He was found guilty on June 10, 2024.[466]
June 1, 2023 – Ashia Davis, a 34-year-old African-American transgender woman was fatally shot in Woodward Inn in Detroit. An 18-year-old, Carlos Lamar Scotland, was arrested and charged with first degree murder, among other charges, on March 12, 2024.[471]
June 17, 2023 – Josilyn Ruiz and Brandy Escamilla, a married lesbian couple, were shot and killed in a mass shooting near Gorge Amphiteatre in Grant County, Washington while attending Beyond Wonderland. Three others were injured by alleged shooter U.S. Army Spc. James M. Kelly,[473] including his girlfriend. Police injured Kelly when apprehending him. Early reports stated that Kelly informed police he had partaken of psychedelic mushrooms beforehand.[474] As of June 17, 2024, Kelly is still detained in the Grant County jail.[475]
June 30, 2023 – Jacob Williamson, a 18-year-old transgender man was mutilated and murdered. Williamson was last seen leaving his job with a man who he had been talking to online for around a month. They were reportedly going on a date to an amusement park several hours away. His body was finally recovered near a road on July 4.[477]
July 29, 2023 – O'Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old gay man, was stabbed and later died outside a gas station in Brooklyn, New York. The suspect responsible for the stabbing was identified as a 17-year-old, who turned himself in to police custody on August 4, 2023, and was later charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime.[480]
August 18, 2023 – Laura Ann Carleton, a store owner in Lake Arrowhead, California and LGBTQ ally, was shot to death, allegedly by Travis Ikeguchi, who took issue with a pride flag being displayed at her business.[482]
November 14, 2023 – Friends Amiri Reid, a transgender woman and Kejuan Richardson, a gay man, both 21 were shot in the head while driving around their home city of Toledo, Ohio.[488]
November 26, 2023 – The body of Bernardo Pantaleon, a 30-year-old gay man was found near a Phoenix park. Pantaleon was tortured, murdered and mutilated. The suspects of his murder also sent photos of his mutilated body to his family.[489]
December 24, 2023 – Amber Minor, a 40-year-old African-American transgender woman was found fatally shot in a driveway in Raytown, MO.[495]
January 1, 2024 – Marcos Lugo / Kitty Monroe, a 43-year-old Latine gender-fluid[e] homeless person, who used both his/her birth name Marcos and the name Kitty and used pronouns of both genders, was killed in a hit and run. A couple pistol-whipped him/her and then ran over him/her with their truck.[496]
January 26, 2024 – Sasha Williams, a 36-year-old transgender woman was stabbed and killed in Las Vegas. 20-year-old Hassan Howard has been arrested for the crime.[497]
February 2, 2024 – África Parrilla García, a 25-year-old African-American transgender homeless woman was murdered in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.[498] She was shot multiple times, and it has been indicated she may have been employed as a sex worker.[499]
February 7, 2024 – Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary student was beaten by three younger girls in the girls' restroom at Owasso High School, leading to their death. According to their[f] mother and friends, they had experienced bullying from students due to their gender identity for more than a year before their death.[501]
February 26, 2024 – Reyna Hernandez, a 54-year-old Latina transgender woman businessowner went missing in Renton, WA.[502] Her body was found on March 8, 2024, in Mexicali,[503] fatally shot. Police in Mexico arrested her 61-year-old husband, Louie "Alex" Hernandez, on unrelated charges but suspect him of the murder.[504]
February 28, 2024 – Righteous Torrence Hill, a 35-year-old African-American transgender businessman who also went by T.K. and Chevy was shot inside his home in East Point, GA. He died on February 29, 2024, during surgery. No arrests have been made.[505]
March 9, 2024 – A 29-year-old African-American transgender woman was pushed in front of an oncoming subway train at the Fulton Street station.[507] Her boyfriend, 35-year-old Christian Valdez, has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the first degree.[508] Both of the woman's legs had to be amputated after she was rushed to the hospital.[509]
March 16, 2024 – Diamond Cherish Brigman, a 36-year-old African-American transgender woman was fatally shot multiple times in Houston.[510] Walter Daniel Saravia Palacios has been arrested and charged with her murder as of May 29, 2024.[511]
March 17, 2024 – Alex Taylor Franco, a 21-year-old transgender man, was shot and killed in Taylorsville, Utah.[512]
March 21, 2024 – Meraxes Medina, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman who worked as a makeup artist at Universal Studios was fatally shot in Los Angeles.[513] Police have indicated they believe Medina was employed as a sex worker in the neighborhood where she was killed.[514]
April 3, 2024 – Tee Arnold, a 36-year-old African-American transgender man also known as Lagend Billions was shot in Hallandale Beach, FL. He was transported to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital where he died on April 7, 2024. He had posted on social media on April 1 that someone had offered money for his death.[515]
April 3, 2024 – River Nevaeh Goddard, a 17-year-old non-binary person was found dead in Stow, MA, in the home of their[g] boyfriend, 20-year-old Shane Curry, who subsequently admitted to police that he had stabbed Goddard multiple times with a sword. Goddard had been missing since April 2022.[516]
April 19, 2024 – Starr Brown, a 28-year-old African-American transgender woman was found dead of a gunshot wound near Scenic Hills Elementary School in Memphis, TN.[517] On April 28, 2024, her co-worker, Alexavier Williamson, reportedly confessed to her murder[518] though police have not revealed a motive.[519]
April 23, 2024 – Andrea Doria Dos Passos, a 37-year-old homeless transgender woman, was sleeping outside the Miami City Ballet in Miami Beach, then around midnight, she was beaten to death with a pipe by Gregory Gibert. At roughly 7 A.M., a worker at the ballet found Dos Passos' body in a pool of blood, with lacerations on her face and two sticks jammed violently into her nostrils. An examination later found a puncture wound in Dos Passos' chest.[520]
May 1, 2024 – The body of Darri Moore, a 23-year-old African-American transgender woman, was discovered by laborers at Tower Rock Stone in Ste. Genevieve, MO. Her body showed severe signs of decomposition.[521]
May 3, 2024 – Kita Bee, a 46-year-old African-American transgender woman was killed in a hit and run in Kansas City, MO.[522]
May 6, 2024 – Jazlynn Johnson, an 18-year-old transgender woman was fatally shot by her male 17-year-old friend in Las Vegas. The boy initially reported the shooting to his parents as an accident, but police found evidence suggesting the boy intended to kill Johnson.[523]
May 7, 2024 – Tayy Dior Thomas, a 17-year-old African-American transgender woman of Mobile, AL was shot 18 times, allegedly by her boyfriend of one year, Carl Mitchell Washington, Jr. who is currently being held without bond.[524]
May 15, 2024 – Reginald Folks, a 35-year-old African-American man working as a Lyft driver, was fatally shot by his passenger, former Atlanta police officer Koby Minor. Minor alleged that Folks was trying to kidnap him, claiming to a woman who stopped after seeing Minor's frantic waving from the rear window he had broken that Folks was part of a "gay fraternity". Minor had been on leave from the Atlanta PD since December 2023 and resigned his position after his arrest on May 17.[526]
May 15, 2024 – Michelle Henry, a 25-year-old African-American transgender woman was killed by manual strangulation after being stabbed multiple times.[527] Her body was found outside a private residence in San Francisco, and though police have arrested a suspect, they have declared the investigation as open and ongoing.[528]
June 23, 2024 – Pauly Likens, a 14-year-old transgender girl from Pennsylvania, was murdered by sharp force trauma to her neck and her corpse was dismembered. Her alleged murderer has been charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence. Pennsylvania does not currently have a hate-crime statute. Governor Josh Shapiro spoke out for expansion of the laws to cover LGBTQ+ individuals following her death.[531]
February 2025 – Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota, was killed after being kidnapped, raped and tortured for over a month. The Ontario County District Attorney stated there was no evidence the killing was a hate crime, stating that "his assailants were known to each other, identified as LGBTQ+, and at least one of the defendants lived with Sam in the time period leading up to the instant offense."[532] GLAAD, the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the country, urged New York prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges. In a press release, they stated "While we are encouraged to see law enforcement act swiftly to investigate this horrific act, we caution investigators from ruling out hate crime charges," advising that "anti-LGBTQ hate can be perpetuated by anyone, regardless of their relationship to the victim or their own gender identity or sexual orientation".[533]
June 1, 2025 – Jonathan Joss, an actor from San Antonio, Texas who was a gay man of Native American ancestry, was approached by a neighbor who allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at him before shooting and killing him.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,168 posts)Thanks
Johonny
(24,955 posts)But he's a threat to the democratic party? Even Sliwa makes fun of Cuomo. Running losers like Cuomo is the real threat. Running "safe" yet stranglely.unpopular candidates that appeal to only old white men too afraid to vote their hearts and join MAGA like Bill are the real threat. Cuomo fondled your daughter and killed your grandmother.
Dorian Gray
(13,841 posts)bc Cuomo has in no way made the argument that he will lead the city in such a way that will make living here easier. I don't have 100% buy in for Mamdani's agenda. I'm stating this upfront so you know where I'm coming from when I say:
SHUT THE FUCK UP BILL MAHER.