THE KNOWN HISTORICAL MARTYRS


339 BCE

Socrates, Greece, aged 71. Socrates is considered one of mankind’s first and greatest philosophers. He was proudly, and openly gay. He was put on trial to determine the philosopher’s guilt of two charges: impiety against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state. He was found guilty and made to drink Hemlock poison. He is acknowledged as a Heroic Martyr in the faith of Antinous.


250 CE

St. Sebastian, Italy, age unknown. He was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He is most commonly depicted in art and literature tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, but this did not kill him. He was, according to his legend, rescued and healed by Saint Irene of Rome. Shortly after his recovery he went to Diocletian to warn him about his sins, and as a result was clubbed to death. Bishop Ambrose of Milan (Saint Ambrose) stated that Sebastian came from Milan and that he was already venerated there at that time. Saint Sebastian is a popular male saint, especially today among athletes. In historical times he was regarded as a saint with a special ability to intercede to protect from plague, and devotion to him increased greatly when plague was active. Many Gay Christians have adopted him as their patron Saint. He is acknowledged as a Heroic Martyr in the faith of Antinous.


305 CE

Apollonius and Philemon, Egypt, age unknown Apollonius was a Deacon of the Church, however, Roman citizens were compelled to demonstrate their piety to the Roman Gods by offering sacrifice. Any person who refused was put to death. He was ordered to make a pagan sacrifice at Antinoopolis in order to prove that he was not a practicing Christian. He couldn't bring himself to do that, so he asked his lover Philemon to make the sacrifice for him, since Philemon was a pagan. Their ruse was found out and they were executed together buy being tied in a sack and thrown in the river Nile. They are now Christian saints. They are also acknowledged as Heroic Martyrs in the faith of Antinous.


Circa. 400 CE

St. Sergius and St. Bacchus, probably in Roman Asia Minor (now Turkey), ages unknown. Sergius and Bacchus were fourth-century Roman Christian soldiers (officers) fighting under Emperor Galerius. They were held high in his favour until they were exposed as secret Christians. They were then severely punished. First, they were publicly humiliated by being chained, dressed in female attire and paraded around town. Bacchus then died during torture, and Sergius was beheaded.
The close ‘friendship’ between the two suggests that their relationship was a romantic one which has led to popular veneration of Sergius and Bacchus in the gay Christian community. They are acknowledged as Heroic Martyrs in the faith of Antinous.

1365

Giovanni di Giovanni – 15 year old boy executed for sodomy in Florence Italy on May 7th 1365 . Publicly castrated and then killed with a red hot iron inserted into his anus.

1431 CE

Jeanne d'Arc – known as Saint Joan of Arc or "The Maid of Orléans", France, aged approx. 19. She is considered by many to have been a Lesbian but that is no certain. She became a heroine of France for her role during Hundred Years' War between England and France. She received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support prince Charles VII and recover France from English domination at the time. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later.
She was captured at Compiègne by a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges including immorality. After Cauchon declared her guilty she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431She was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She is also acknowledged as a Heroic Saint in the faith of Antinous.


1677 CE

Dionysus Feldner and another 112 unnamed boys and 27 girls. Austria, ages – various. In, Salzburg was in the grip of extreme Christian fundamentalism. Rumours circulated of a mysterious person who was a werewolf, wizard known as Zauberjackl (Magic Jake). He was a 20-year-old man with red hair who "fancied the lads" and who had a reputation for hanging out with adolescents and teaching them the black arts. During routine questioning of a 12-year-old, crippled, street urchin named Dionysus Feldner claimed that "Zauberjackl" existed and was working with children, sexually and magically, to attract demons. It spawned a frantic witch hunt 139 street urchins were accused of being followers of Zauberjackl. Some were less than 10 years old. All of the children "confessed" under torture and were executed for witchcraft. It is the world's most infamous case of child witch trials. Zauberjackl was never captured.


1810 to 1835 CE

Unknown names, , United Kingdom, unknown ages. 46 people were convicted of sodomy and hung; 32 were sentenced to death but reprieved. A further 716 were imprisoned or received lesser sentences, such as public shaming and abuse.


1835 CE

James Pratt, United Kingdom, aged 30. He was a horse-groomer, who lived in Deptford, London with his wife and children. He was sentenced to death for buggery along with John Smith below.
John Smith, United Kingdom, aged 40. He was from Southwark, London. Some reports say he was an unmarried labourer, though other sources state he was married and worked as a servant. He was sentenced to death for buggery along with James Pratt above.


1841 CE

William Bonill, age unknown. He was convicted of accessory to the sodomy ‘crimes’ of James Pratt and John Smith above. He was sentenced to 14 years transportation to Australia. He was one of 290 prisoners on the ship Asia, which arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (now called Tasmania) in February 1936. He died in a hospital there six years later so was executed by default.


1900 CE

Oscar Wilde, United Kingdom, aged 46. He was a World-renowned writer and playwright. He was weakened by forced labour during imprisonment for being gay. He then contracted meningitis. He is now a Saint of Antinous.

1916 CE

Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais), Eire (Ireland - part of the UK at the time), aged 36. He was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Irish ‘Easter Rising’ (against British rule) in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion. He was gay, which probably contributed to his sentence. He is acknowledged as a Heroic Martyr in the faith of Antinous.


1942 CE

Three young people were executed by the Nazi regime in Germany. Two were gay and one was an ally.

Sara ‘Henny’ Schermann, Germany, aged 30. She was a Lesbian woman who worked as a sales woman. Researchers assume she was arrested in a raid on a lesbian bar by the Nazis. This is supported by official documents stating she was a ‘libidinous [lustful] lesbian and moves only in such bars. Official Nazi paperwork records her as a ‘Stateless Jewess’ – all Jews were stripped of their German nationality. She was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1940. In 1942 she was selected by one of the Nazis’ death doctors, Dr Friedrich Mennecke. He – along with other doctors – controlled the selection of people deemed ‘unworthy of life’. Henny was sent to the gas chamber on 30 May 1942.

Mary Pünjer, Germany, aged 38. She was a Lesbian woman who worked in her parents’ business for women’s clothing in Wandsbek, a borough of Hamburg. On 24 July 1940 she was arrested by the Nazis, probably during a raid on a lesbian bar. She spent almost three months in police cells in Fuhlsbüttel, a concentration camp on the outskirts of Hamburg from where people were often sent to other camps.
On 12 October 1940 she was admitted to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Official documents record that she was imprisoned because of her ‘political’ differences and because she was a ‘lesbian’.
In 1941 the Nazis decided to murder seriously ill concentration camp prisoners who were unable to work. They referred to them as ‘balast’. Women from Ravensbrück who fell into this category were sent to the camp at Bernburg near Dessau. This had been set up as a ‘hospital’ to murder sick and handicapped people under the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ policy.
Pünjer was gassed in the killing wing of the ‘Convalescent and Nursing Home’ at Bernburg, probably in spring 1942.

1943 CE

Elli Smula, Germany, aged 29. She was a Lesbian woman who was worked for Berlin Public Transport on the trams in Berlin. She was reported by her employer and arrested by the Nazis on 12th September 1940. She was interrogated by the Gestapo. They accused her of having sex at parties with female colleagues and not reporting for work the following day.
On 30 November 1940 she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. The official documentation recorded the reason for her imprisonment was that she was a ‘political’ prisoner and added the word ‘lesbian’.
Little is known about her time in the camp other. But after the war her mother wrote that she died ‘quite suddenly’ in Ravensbrück on 8 July 1943.


1950 CE

Kenneth Crowe, United Kingdom, aged 37. He was murdered for being gay.


1960 CE

John Cremin, United Kingdom, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.


1962 CE

George Brinham, United Kingdom, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.


1964 CE

Marc Blitzstein, Martinique, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.


1969 CE

Robert Rayford, USA, aged 16. He was almost certainly the World’s first recorded case of HIV/AIDS. His symptoms match the pathology recognised for HIV/AIDS and analysis of samples kept after his death show signs of the body trying to fight the same type of condition. He had been a victim of child abuse and was probably a male prostitute.


1972 CE

George Duncan, Australia, age unknown. George Duncan and Roger Jones were thrown into a river in Adelaide by a group of men believed to be police officers, resulting in Duncan's death. Jones refused to identify their attackers out of fear for his life. Two police officers were charged but acquitted, and the case was said to have been the subject of a government cover-up. An independent police report described it as the result of a "'high-spirited frolic' that went wrong".


1973 CE

On June 24, a gay bar called the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA was deliberately set alight. The fire started in the stairwell. Thirty-two people died as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The official cause is still listed as "undetermined origin". The most likely suspect, a gay man named Rodger Nunez who had been ejected from the bar earlier in the day, was never charged and took his own life in November 1974. The victims were of various ages:
Willie Inez Warren
Eddie Hosea Warren
James Curtis Warren
Luther Boggs
Rev. William R. Larson
Dr. Perry Lane Waters, Jr.
Horace “Skip” Getchell
Leon Richard Maples
George Steven Matyl
James Wall Hembrick
Larry Stratton
Joe William Balley
Clarence Joseph McCloskey, Jr.
Adam Roland Fontenot
Ferris LeBlanc
Donald Walter Dunbar
Kenneth Paul Harrington
Gerald Hoyt Gordon
John Thomas Golding, Sr.
Douglas Maxwell Williams
Robert “Bob” Lumpkin
David Stuart Gary
Guy D. Anderson
Duane George “Mitch” Mitchell
Louis Horace Broussard
Reginald Adams, Jr.
Joseph Henry Adams
Herbert Dean Cooley
Glenn Richard “Dick” Green
Larry Norman Frost
Unidentified White Male
Unidentified White Male


1977 CE

Danny Lockin, USA, 34. He was an American actor and dancer who appeared on stage, television, and film. He was best known for his portrayal of the character Barnaby Tucker in the 1969 film HELLO DOLLY. Lockin was stabbed over 100 times by a man he met in a California bar.


1979 CE

Steven Charles, USA. He was a 17-year-old youth, from Newark, New Jersey. Some have suggested that he was a prostitute, but this is not confirmed. In October 1979 he and a friend, 16-year-old Thomas Moore, were walking down the street in Greenwich when they were picked up by four men. They were driven to Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island and beaten and left for dead. Steven died, while his friend survived to testify against the four men.


1980 CE

A shooter in the USA fired 40 rounds from a semiautomatic rifle into a cluster of men standing in front of two gay bars, wounding six and killing:
Jörg Wenz, aged 21.
Vernon Kroening, aged 32.
Rene Malute, aged 23.

Unknown names, Brazil, between 1980 and 2006. Approximately 300 Brazilians were murdered each year due to rampant homosexual and trans phobia. Activists estimate that more than 2,680 gay people were Murdered in Brazil between these years.

1982 CE

Charlie Self, Ireland, aged 33. He was murdered for being gay.


1983 CE

Declan Flynn, Ireland , aged 33. He was murdered for being gay.


1984 CE

Charlie Howard, Bangor, Maine, USA, aged 23. He was murdered for being gay by a group of teenage boys - he was thrown from a bridge and drowned.


1985 CE

Kenneth Zeller, 1985, Canada, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.


1987 CE

Raymond Keam, Australia, age unknown.He was murdered in Alison Park, Randwick, Sydney. His injuries were consistent with attackers having jumped on his chest while he lay on the ground.


1988 CE

Scott Johnson, Australia, unknown. His body was found at the bottom of a 50-metre cliff near Blue Fish Point around Manly, Sydney. There have been many investigations into the cause of this death. The police had historically described his death as suicide, but a 2017 inquest — the third on his death — admitted he was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime.
Rebecca Wight, USA, age unknown. She was murdered for being Lesbian.

"Julie Doe", USA, age unknown. She was a transwoman who was discovered in Lake County, Florida along a roadside. Her remains have yet to be positively identified and homicide is strongly suspected, due to the circumstances of her death

Venus Xtravaganza, USA, age unknown. She was a transwoman who was strangled to death in New York City on 21 December. Her body was found four days later, shoved under a hotel bed


1989 CE

Richard Johnson, Australia, age unknown. He was lured to a toilet block in Alexandria Park, Sydney where he had left his phone number on the wall. He was gang bashed to death.

Ross Warren, Australia, age unknown. His keys were found at the base of the cliffs at Tamarama, his car was nearby. His body was never found.

John Russell, Australia, age unknown. He was found at the bottom of Marks Park (between Bondi and Tamarama) with a clump of hair in his hand. Police found no suspicious circumstances. A few days after the murder of Ross Warren (previous above), another gay man, David McMahon was attacked in Bondi while jogging in the same place . He says he clearly remembers them saying, "let's throw him off where we threw the other one off."

Joe Rose, Canada, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Alain Brosseau, Canada, age unknown. He was a straight man murdered by a gang of teenagers who wrongly assumed him to be gay.

Christopher Schliach, United Kingdom, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Henry Bright, United Kingdom, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Albert Kennedy, United Kingdom, aged 16. He died after falling from a car park roof while being chased by several attackers in a car. A trust was founded in his name to support lgbtq+ young people aged 16-25, in the UK, who are facing or experiencing homelessness or living in a hostile environment. They support young people into safe homes and employment, education or training, in a welcoming and open environment that celebrates lgbtq+ identities.

Carla Leigh Salazar, USA, age unknown. She was a transwoman who was found stabbed to death in her apartment in California


1990 CE

William Wayne Tonks, Australia, age unknown. He was a gay man. Police found him murdered in his flat (Police recorded it as a possible suicide).

Kritchikorn Rattanajurathaporn, Australia, aged unknown. He was attacked with a hammer and staggered off a cliff in Bondi. Three men were convicted of his murder in the early 1990s.

Scott Johnson, 1990, Australia, He was murdered for being gay.
Investigations re-opened Scott Johnson’s case in 2018. It led to the revelation that there appear to have been approximately 118 gay men murdered in or around Sydney, between 1980 and 1990, by gangs deliberately targeting gay men. Several of the names above are included.

William Dalziel, United Kingdom, aged unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Michael Boothe, United Kingdom, aged unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

James Zappalorti, USA, age 45. He was murdered for being gay.

1991 CE

Sònia Rescalvo Zafra, Spain/Catalonia, aged 45. She was murdered for being lesbian.

Paul Broussard, USA, aged 23. He was murdered for being gay.

1992 CE

Magne Andreassen, Norway, aged unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Allen R. Schindler Jr, USA, aged 23. He was murdered for being gay.

Brandon Teena, 1992, USA, aged 21. He was a trans man who was raped and Murdered in Falls City, Nebraska. Two men
were convicted of first-degree murder in the incident, which became the subject of the Academy Award-winning film Boys Don't Cry.

1993 CE

In, the United Kingdom, a serial killer murdered the following 5 gay men. He was caught and imprisoned for life.
Peter Walker, aged 49
Christopher Dunn, aged 37
Perry Bradley III, aged 35
Andrew Collier, aged 33
Emanuel Spiteri, aged 41

1994 CE

In the USA, a serial killer murdered the following 6 Gay men. He was caught and is due to be executed in 2019.
John Hardy Roberts, aged 59
Walter Hinton, aged 47
David Jarman, age unknown
Milton Bradley, aged 72
Albert Morris, aged unknown
Unknown, aged unknown

1995 CE

Between approx. 1995 and 1997, 10 LGBT+ victims were found to have been murdered in Snowtown, Australia. They were apparently killed by 4 murderers because they knew or presumed that the victims were gay. The victims were:
Clinton Trezise, age unknown.
Thomas Trevilyan, age unknown.
Elizabeth Haydon, age unknown.
…and 7 other victims of unknown name or age.

Tyra Hunter, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident and being refused emergency medical care. Emergency medical technicians at the scene of the accident uttered derogatory epithets and withdrew medical care after cutting open Tyra's pants and discovering that she had a penis. ER staff at DC General Hospital subsequently provided dilatory and inadequate care.

1996 CE

Michael Doran, United Kingdom, aged 35. Michael suffered 83 injuries during a frenzied assault in Queen's Park, Glasgow, a meeting place for gay men. He was stabbed and suffered a fractured skull after being kicked and stamped on. Three Glasgow youths aged 20, 16 and 18 were sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing. A 14-year-old female accomplice was released. Even though she pleaded not guilty, the court heard that she had admitted to police that she had taken part in the attack.

Scott Amedure, 1996, USA, aged 32. He was murdered for being gay.

Roxanne Ellis, 1996, USA, aged 53. She was murdered with her partner

Michelle Abdill, aged 42.


1997 CE

Robyn Brown, 1997, United Kingdom, aged 23. Robyn was a transgender woman whose body was found in a flat in Gosfield Rd, W1, London. She had been stabbed multiple times. Police launched a murder inquiry. In June 2007 a 40-year-old man was arrested after being identified from a palm print left at the murder scene 10 years earlier. He was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years.

Ali He'shun Forney (aka Luscious), 1997, USA, aged 22 They were a peer counsellor of and advocate for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and was killed on the street in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan in New York City.


1998 CE

Matthew Shepard, 1998, USA, age 22. Matthew was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie. He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe head injuries. Two suspects were arrested shortly after the attack and charged with first-degree murder following Shepard's death. Significant media coverage was given to the murder and to what role Shepard's sexual orientation played as a motive in the commission of the crime. The prosecutor argued that the murder of Shepard was premeditated and driven by greed. The defence counsel countered that they had intended only to rob Shepard but had killed him in a rage when Shepard made a sexual advance on one of them. A girlfriend of one of the attackers told police that he had been motivated by anti-gay sentiment but later recanted her statement, saying that she had lied because she thought it would help him. Both attackers were convicted of the murder, and each received two consecutive life sentences.
Shepard's murder brought national and international attention to hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels. In October 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (commonly the "Matthew Shepard Act" or "Shepard/Byrd Act" for short). James Byrd Jr was an African American man who was murdered by three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas, in 1998. On October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law.
Following her son's murder, Judy Shepard became a prominent LGBT rights activist and established the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Shepard's death inspired films, novels, plays, songs, and other works.

Brian Wilmes, USA aged 46. He was murdered for being gay.

Rita Hester, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was found on the floor of her apartment in Allston, Massachusetts - she had suffered multiple stab wounds and later died at the hospital.


1999 CE

Jeff Whittington, New Zealand, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

In 1999, a United Kingdom a Neo-Nazi, terrorist, bombed the Admiral Duncan pub in London. He killed 4 people and injured 70. The 4 people he killed were:
Andrea Dykes, aged 27
Andrea Dykes’ unborn baby, aged four months
Nik Moore, aged 31
John Light, aged 32

Tracey Thompson, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender woman, who was stabbed multiple times in Seville, Georgia.
Gary Matson, USA, aged 50. He was murdered with his partner

Winfield Mowder, aged 40. They were murdered by white supremacist brothers in Redding, California. The brothers confessed to killing the couple because they were gay.

Barry Winchell, USA, aged 22. He was an infantry soldier in the US Army, whose murder by a fellow soldier, became a point of reference in the ongoing debate about the policy known as "Don't ask, don't tell", which did not allow U.S. military gays, bisexuals, and lesbians to be open about their sexual orientation. (Winchell was dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Addams).

Steen Fenrich, USA aged 18. He was a gay man who lived in Bayside, Queens, New York. In March 2000. In September 1999 he left his parents' home in Dix Hills and went missing. However, no one filed a missing person's report. His dismembered remains were discovered with homophobic slurs carved into the skull. Police believe his stepfather killed him.

Billy Jack Gaither 39 Murdered – he was a gay man who was brutally beaten, his throat was cut, and his body was bludgeoned with an ax handle before being thrown on top of a pile of tires and set on fire. Two men admitted to the murder.


2000 CE

Jaap Bornkamp, United Kingdom, aged 52. He was murdered for being gay.

Damilola Taylor, United Kingdom, aged 10. He was murdered (on the presumption that he was gay).

Christine Chappel, United Kingdom, aged 28. She was a trans woman whose body was found near Lowestoft, England. Her brother-in-law was jailed after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Her former partner was also later jailed for shielding the murderer.

Arthur "J.R." Warren, USA, aged 26. He was murdered for being gay.

Danny Overstreet, USA, aged 43. A shooter entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia on September 22, 2000, and opened fire, injuring six and killing Danny.

Amanda Milan, USA, age unknown. She was a trans woman, who was walking by Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, when a man walked up and began to harass and threaten her. Milan stood up to him and asked him if he wanted to fight. Witnesses said he declined. As he walked away, another young man, brandished a knife. The murderer grabbed it, and stabbed Milan in the neck. The young man named reportedly helped the murderer escape from the scene. Milan died soon after. Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera worked towards seeing that Milan's death was investigated and organized Milan's political funeral along with other demonstrations claiming a disconnection of transgender rights from the larger LGBT communities. After Milan's murder, Rivera reformed a transgender activist group, Street Trans Activist Revolutionaries (STAR). Rivera cited the crime among the reasons to add a broad definition of gender to the New York City Human Rights Law.


2001 CE

Aaron Webster, Canada, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Mark ‘Bear Trap’ Bingham, USA, aged 31. He died trying to resist one of the aircraft hijackings over the USA, on 9/11.

9/11 An unknown number of LGBT people will have been massacred in the terrorist attacks in the USA, on 9/11. Whilst they were not killed directly for their sexuality, they were being judged as sinners by the Muslim extremists who killed them. Islam considers homosexuality to be one of the greatest sins against Allah. So, we consider that were murdered, at least in part, due to their sexuality. Most statistical estimates of the LGBT community size work on a 5% average of the population. 2,996 people died on 9/11. So, we can assume that 150 of them were LGBT. We only know for certain that Mark Bingham (above) was one of them – so I have included 149 people in the numbers counted for this document.

Loni Kai, USA, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was killed near Hillsboro, Oregon. Her murder is still unsolved.


2002 CE

Bertrand Delanoë, France, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

Francois Chenu, France, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

In South Africa, 9 men were brutally butchered to death in a massacre at Sizzlers gay massage parlour. They were:
Travis Reade, 20, age unknown.
Marius Meyer, aged 21.
Stephanus Fouche, age unknown.
Warren Visser, age unknown.
Sergio De Castro, aged 22.
Aubrey Eric Otgaar, aged 56.
& three other unnamed victims, ages unknown.

Geoffrey Windsor, United Kingdom, aged 57. The body of Geoffrey Windsor was found in Beaulieu Heights, a park off South Norwood Hill, London. He had suffered head injuries. Police suspected that Geoffrey, a gay man had been the victim of a homophobic robbery as his wallet was missing. The case remains unresolved.

Nizah Morris, USA, aged 47. She was a transgender entertainer who suffered a severe head injury from which she did not recover - she was removed from life support. The Philadelphia Police Department's handling of Morris' death sparked protests in the LGBT community and led to several investigations into the police coverup of her death.

Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, USA, aged 17. She was a teenage, trans woman, who was killed by four men, with two of whom she had had sexual relations. They beat and strangled her after discovering she was transgender. Two defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, but not convicted on the requested hate crime enhancements. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no contest to voluntary manslaughter. In at least one of the trials, a trans panic defense - an extension of the gay panic defence - was employed.

Sakia Gunn, USA, aged 15. She was a 15-year-old lesbian who was murdered in what has been deemed a hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. Gunn and her friends were propositioned by two men. The girls rejected their advances and declared themselves to be lesbians. The men attacked; Gunn fought back, and one of the men stabbed her in the chest. Both men were charged with her death and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2008 a documentary was released about Gunn's murder, titled Dreams Deferred.
Ukea Davis, USA, aged 18.Ukea Davis and Stephanie Thomas were two transgender friends and roommates who were sharing an apartment together one block away from where they were murdered. They were in a car stopped at a stop when they were hit by a hail of gunfire from two men in another car. Ukea died immediately from ten gunshot wounds to her body, while Stephanie was still breathing, despite suffering the same amount of gunshot wounds as Ukea. A witness believed the killers may have known the victims because one of them checked on Stephanie to see if she was still alive before fleeing.
Stephanie Thomas, aged 19. See Ukea Davis above.


2003 CE

Shelby Tracy Tom, Canada, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was working as a sex worker. Her killer was having sex with her until he noticed her surgery scars and he panicked, as a result and strangled her. The prosecutor attempted to classify her death as a hate crime, but Supreme Court of British Columbia Justice ruled that the crime was not motivated by hate because the killer did not know of her transgender identity when meeting her and thus could have not targeted her for it. His defense attorney used a gay panic defence to explain the murder. The killer pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to nine years.

Guin "Richie" Phillips, USA, aged 36. He was a gay man who was murdered by a younger man who claimed that Guinn had tried to force sex on him. Due to a gay panic defence the killer was sentenced for the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Nireah Johnson, USA, aged 17. She was a trans woman, who was Murdered by men, who were initially sexually attracted to her and then discovered that she was transgender. She was with her friend Brandie who was murdered too.

Brandie Coleman, USA, aged 18. See Nireah Johnson above.

Glenn Kopitske, USA, aged 37. After college, where he tried his hand at stand-up comedy, Glenn returned to live near his parents in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, Kopitske needed to be close to his parents but required some independence as well. Kopitske was killed by a 17-year-old who initially admitted to killing Kopitske "to see if he could get away with it"; however, he later claimed to have experienced temporary insanity that resulted from his rage after a supposed homosexual encounter with Kopitske.

Janice Roberts, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was kidnapped by a serial killer. He later told an informant that he tried to engage Roberts in a sexual act because he assumed, she was a woman. He strangled her when realizing that she was transgender.


2004 CE

Divas Boulanger, Canada, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She had been missing for some time. Her body was found at a rest stop just east of Portage la Prairie. Her killer was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Brian Williamson, Jamaica, age unknown. He was murdered for being gay.

FannyAnn Viola Eddy, Sierra Leone, aged 30. Fanny was an activist for lesbian and gay rights in her native Sierra Leone and throughout Africa. In 2002, she founded the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association, the first of its kind in Sierra Leone. She travelled widely, addressing the United Nations and other international groups. Eddy was murdered by a group of at least three men who broke into the office of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association in central Freetown. They gang-raped her, stabbed her, and eventually broke her neck.

David Morley, United Kingdom, aged 37. David had survived the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in 1999. He was a barman who was fatally attacked by a group of youths near Waterloo station in London. The attack garnered widespread media coverage as a fatality of a violent trend known as ‘happy slapping’ (using mobile phones to film an attack on an innocent person) which may have been motivated by homophobia.
In December 2005, four youths were found guilty of Morley's manslaughter. A fifteen-year-old girl, (aged fourteen at the time of the incident) was sentenced to an 8-year custodial sentence. Her co-defendants were sentenced to 12 years each. They had been prosecuted for murder, but the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter as they are permitted to do.

Scotty Joe Weaver, USA, aged 18. His burned and partially decomposed body was discovered a few miles from the mobile home Bay Minette, Alabama. He had been beaten, strangled and stabbed numerous times, partially decapitated, and his body doused in gasoline and set on fire. The Baldwin County District Attorney, David Whetstone, stated that Weaver's sexual orientation was a factor in the crime. He remarked that the brutality involved "is suggestive of overkill, which is not something you see in a regular robbery and murder." Alabama's hate crimes statute does not apply to people targeted because of their sexual orientation.
Three people were charged with capital murder and robbery in connection with the crime, two of whom were Weaver's roommates and one who had been Weaver's friend throughout most of his life.


2005 CE

In Iran horrific film emerged of two gay youths being driven to their execution, bound and crying. They were then filmed being hung in a crowded public space. Three other men were hung for being gay. The martyrs were:
Ayaz Marhoni 18, hung beside his lover…
Mahmoud Asgari, 16
Farbod Mostaar, 27
Ahmad Chooka, 27
Farid Mostaar, 27

Jody Dobrowski, United Kingdom, aged 24. He was an assistant bar manager who was murdered on Clapham Common in south London. He was beaten to death with punches and kicks by two men who believed him to be gay. Tests carried out at St. George's Hospital in Tooting, South London revealed Dobrowski had a swollen brain, broken nose and extensive bruising to his neck, spine and groin. His family was unable to identify him due to his face being so badly disfigured and he had to be identified by fingerprints. His two assailants pleaded guilty to the murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment on with a minimum of 28 years to be served. Both men had been involved in an attack against a gay man two weeks prior to the murder of Dobrowski.
This was a landmark case in Britain, where Section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 was utilised in sentencing the killers. This Act empowers courts to impose tougher sentences for offences motivated or aggravated by the victim's sexual orientation in England and Wales.

Ronnie Antonio Paris, USA, aged 3. He was murdered by his father on the assumption he would grow up to be gay.

Jason Gage, USA, aged 29. He was murdered because he was gay.

Andrew Anthos, USA, aged 72. He was murdered because he was gay.

Maurice Green, USA, aged 22. He was murdered because he was gay.

Timothy Blair, USA, aged 27. He was murdered in a drive-by shooting because he was gay.


2006 CE

Edivaldo Silva de Oliveira, Brazil, age unknown. His body was found in the back of a car with Jeovan Bandeira. Thet were murdered for being gay.

Jeovan Bandeira, Brazil, age un known. See Edivaldo Silva de Oliveira above.

Ahmed Khalil, Iraq, aged 14. He was executed for being gay.

Gisberta Salce Júnior, Portugal, age unknown. She was a Brazilian transgender woman who was killed in Oporto by a group of 14 youths between 12 and 16 years old. They tortured and raped her for three days, and finally threw her, still alive, into a well over 15 m deep, where she drowned. Eleven of the minors received minimal sentences of under 13 months in a semi-open education centre of the Instituto de Reinserção Social, and two received sentences of additional education. Her death became a symbol of the violence against women and the LGBT community, and shortly after laws protecting trans women were introduced in Portugal.

Julio Anderson Luciano, Spain, age unknown. He was killed, with his fiancé Isaac, for being gay.

Isaac Ali Dani Peréz Triviño, Spain, age unknown. See Julio Anderson Luciano above.

Michael Sandy, USA, aged 29. He was run over and killed while trying to escape four men attacking him because he was gay


2007 CE

Tyrone Unsworth, Australia, aged 13. He was a gay teenager who killed himself after prolonged homophobic bullying at his school, which culminated with his being hospitalized after his jaw was struck with a fence used as a weapon by another boy.

Osvan Inacio dos Santos, Brazil, aged 19. He was attacked and murdered on a street near a bar where he had just won the local "Miss Gay" competition in the town of Batingas in northeast Brazil. Dos Santos' naked body was found on Sunday morning and forensic examination found his skull had been fractured and indicated sexual assault.

2006-2007, Columbia, various ages. Colombia Diversa, a gay civil rights advocacy group based in Bogota, published a national report on the human rights of LGBT people for 2006-2007. In the report, the group indicates that it documented the killings of 67 LGBT persons in Colombia in that period.

Alexis Frumin, France, age unknown. Alexis was murdered in a racist and homophobic killing. There were heavy penalties for 4 skinheads who were tried behind closed doors for "intentional homicide with premeditation preceded by acts of torture and barbarism".

Makwan Moloudzadeh, Iran, aged 21. He was convicted of lavat-e iqabi (anal sex) for the alleged rape of three individuals, eight years before, when he was 13. He was executed.

James Kerr, United Kingdom, aged 51. James Kerr was a catering worker. A man was jailed for life and another for nine years for beating him to death in a "callous and brutal" attack in a city centre park. James died in hospital after being repeatedly punched and kicked in the face and head by three people in April. They had hunted him down and attacked him for allegedly "trying it on" with one of the gang. After leaving Kerr dying in a pool of blood in South Inch park in central Perth, the group went to a party nearby, where they boasted about the attack. As he left the scene one of the attackers was heard remarking: "I hate gays and poofters."

Kellie Telesford, United Kingdom, aged 39. Kellie was a pre-op transsexual. A teenager strangled her in her bedroom after discovering she was still a man - he was cleared of her murder despite finger print evidence and her stolen mobile phone being found on him. The killer was facing other criminal charges and, as a Jamaican illegal immigrant, was deported.

Bryan Charles Kocis (also known as Bryan Phillips), USA, aged 45. He was a director of gay pornographic films and founder of Cobra Video, a gay porn film studio. Kocis was Murdered at his Dallas Township, Pennsylvania home. Arson was used in an attempt to disguise the circumstances of his death. Two escorts, Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes, were charged and convicted for Kocis' murder.


2008 CE

Alexandre Peixe dos Santos, Brazil, age unknown. He was a gay rights activist, was attacked and beaten in the offices of Sao Paulo's Gay Pride Association.

Ahmet Yildiz, Turkey, age unknown. Physics student, Ahmet Yildiz filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutor about a year before the incident on the grounds that he had received threats from his family. On the night of 15 July 2008, Yildiz, who had gone to a café in n Üsküdar, Istanbul. He faced the attacker when triying to get out of his car and escape. He was shot three times in the chest and eventually died from his injuries. Many consider to be the first recorded LGBT+ related honour killing in Turkey.

Michael Causer, United Kingdom, aged 18. Michael was a gay teenager living in Liverpool who came to national attention in the United Kingdom when he was seriously assaulted because of his sexual orientation. He later died after undergoing extensive emergency surgery to his brain.
According to evidence put before the jury, the trigger-point for the violence came when Causer's attackers found sexually explicit images of him on his mobile phone as he slept upstairs in a house where a party had been held. This prompted a sustained and brutal attack as he slept leaving him with a fractured skull and a swollen brain. One attacker screamed "You little queer faggot" and "He’s a little queer, he deserves it". During the trial, it was also claimed that he used a cigarette lighter to burn the hair on Mr Causer’s legs, and that threats were made to rip out his body piercings with a knife. The same attacker pleaded not guilty, claiming he had acted in self-defence, and blaming the attack on another attacker. He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Another attacker was convicted and sentenced to serve life with a minimum of 11 and a half years before he can be considered for parole after pleading guilty to murder. A third assailant was convicted and sentenced to 34 weeks in custody, suspended for two years.
A memorial fund was established,[initially to support Causer's family with funeral and legal expenses. Due to the generosity of the response to this fund, it developed into the Michael Causer Foundation, whose aim is to provide supported accommodation for vulnerable LGBT young people in the north West of England. It became a UK registered charity in July 2011. The Liverpool Pride festival is held around the anniversary of his murder.

Duanna Johnson, USA aged 43. Duanna was a transgender woman was in the middle of a lawsuit against the city of Memphis when she was found dead, shot in the head 'execution style' just weeks before her case was to go to trail. Her lawsuit claimed that while she was being arrested on charges of prostitution, she was physically beaten by 2 Memphis police officers after she refused to respond to anti-gay and anti-transgender slurs. The assault was captured on video and caused the 2 officers to lose their jobs. Weeks later she was dead.

Lawrence Fobes (also known as ‘Larry’ or ‘Latisha’) King, USA, aged 15. He was a school student who was experimenting with his gender and sexuality. He was shot twice by a fellow, 14-year-old student, and kept on life support until he died two days later.
Following many delays and a change of venue, the first trial began on July 5, 2011. That trial ended when the judge declared a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors decided to try the defendant again but dropped the hate crime charge. On November 21, 2011, the defendant avoided the scheduled retrial by pleading guilty to second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm. His plea resulted in a sentence of 21 years behind bars.

Angie Zapata, USA, aged19. She was a trans woman killed in Greeley, Colorado. Her death was the first case involving a transgender victim to be ruled a hate crime. Colorado is one of only eleven US states that protect transgender victims under hate crime laws in the United States. Her murderer learned Angie was transgender after meeting her and spending several days with her. He beat her to death with a fire extinguisher. In his arrest affidavit, the killer called Zapata "it”. During his trial a tape was played of a phone conversation in which he told his girlfriend "gay things need to die". His attorneys used a gay panic defence. He was found guilty of first-degree murder, hate crimes, and car/ID theft. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Simmie Williams Jr (sometimes also known as "Chris" or "Beyonce"), USA, aged 17. He was a young, “sensitive”, openly gay men, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He had recently joined the Job Corp and was working toward being a Chef when he was shot and killed. It is believed that he may have temporarily been employed as a sex worker at the time of his death.

‘Ashley’ Sweeney (also known as Michael Dionthe), USA, age unknown. She was a trans woman she was shot in the head at an unknown location, her body was then dumped. Police sources sates that she was known to work as a sex worker. Little else is known about the circumstances of Sweeney's death or, for that matter, Sweeney herself. Friends are fearful and have been loath to come forward with information, and the family isn't speaking.

Lateisha "Tiesh" Green, aged 22 USA, aged 22. She a transgender woman who was shot and killed on 14 November 2008 outside a house party in Syracuse, New York. Convicted of Onondaga County's first hate-crime homicide, the killer was motivated by anti-LGBT bias and his belief that Green was gay.


2009 CE

Ritchie Dowrey, Canada, aged 62. He was murdered because he was gay.

Nir Katz, Israel, aged 26. He had completed his military service in an elite intelligence unit a year and was living in Givataim with his partner, Thomas Schimdt. He was a student at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. He had volunteered in the gay community in the past and had recently become a volunteer working with young people for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transvestite Association in the Bar-Noar center. He was murdered in an attack on a gay bar in Tel Aviv which injured 15 others.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the shooting was planned by two young men, one of whom believed his teenaged relative had been abused by an activist at the Bar-Noar center. After the shooting, the gunman and his accomplice fled into Tel Aviv. Due to trials collapsing, no-one was convicted for the shooting.

Liz Troubishi, Israel, aged 17. She was murdered in the attack on the gay bar in Tel Aviv that killed Nir Katz above.

Gerald ‘Gerry’ Edwards, United Kingdom, aged 59. Housebound Gerald Edwards had been living with his partner Chris Bevan for 18 years. Gerry was killed and Chris Bevan, 57, suffered "catastrophic injuries" at their home - his life was saved when he received open-heart massage at the scene. In court the jury heard the killer went to rob frail Gerald Edwards, armed with a knife and determined not to leave any witnesses behind. The judge, said: "There was at least an undercurrent of homophobic attitude."

Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, USA, aged 11. He hung himself after school bullies repeatedly called him “gay.”

Justin Goodwin, USA, aged 36. He was bullied into suicide for being gay.

August Provost III, USA aged 29. He was on openly gay sailor who was fatally shot his compound was set on fire while he was standing sentry at a California base. It is assumed that his sexuality was the cause of the murder.


2010 CE

Alexandre Thome Ivo Rajao, Brazil, aged 14. He was brutally tortured and murdered whilst on the way home from watching the South African World Cup at a friend's house. Many believe this attack to be motivated by homophobia as Alexandre had been in a same-sex relationship with the cousin of one of the attackers.

In Canada, between 2010 and 2018 a serial killer murdered eight men – many of south Asian or Middle Eastern heritage. The victims lacked stable housing, while others lived in fear of police. Most were thought to be gay. The victims were:
Skandaraj Navaratnam, aged 40.
Abdulbasir Faizi, aged 42.
Selim Esen, aged 44
Andrew Kinsman,
Majeed Kayhan, aged 58
Dean Lisowick, aged 47
Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37
Soroush Mahmudi, aged 50

In South Africa there were eight almost identical, execution style, murders of gay men between 2010 and 2012. One remains unnamed, those named were…
Manolis Veloudos, age unknown
Jim Cathels, age unknown
Oscar O’Hara, aged 33
Siphiwe Selby Nhlapo, aged 36
Barney van Heerden, aged 39
Jason Wessenaar-Moloatsi, age unknown
Rulov Senekal, aged 62.

David Kato, Uganda, aged 47. He was murdered for being gay.

Dominic Crouch, United Kingdom, aged 15. He committed suicide by jumping off a tall building after months of homophobic bullying. A video of him kissing another boy during a game of spin the bottle had circulated among school children. It is not known if Dominic was gay, but his suicide prompted his father to become a national campaigner. In a speech delivered to an education conference in the aftermath of Dominic's death, Roger Crouch speculated that the "banter" Dominic heard might have been "just a way to mock a boy who was vulnerable" and outlined a series of measures designed to ensure schools took such actions seriously - his efforts led to him being named "Hero of the Year" at an award ceremony held by the LGBT+ campaigning group Stonewall.

Andrea Waddell, United Kingdom, age unknown. She was born male but had undergone gender reassignment surgery and had been working as a prostitute. He killer was told, by a judge, that he applied "unremitting pressure" to Andrea Waddell's neck at her Brighton home – which he set fire to. The court heard he then went home to shower and wash his clothes in an attempt to cover his tracks.

Destiny Lauren, United Kingdom, aged 29. She was a transsexual woman who was living as a prostitute. Her killer strangled, took her mobile phone, designer jewellery and stole £250 from her to pay for a threesome with two other women. But he had forgotten to retrieve his coat hanging from a hook on her bedroom door. He was caught on CCTV donning a pair of black gloves before entering her flat.

Sonia/David Burgess, 2010, United Kingdom, aged 63. They were living a double life as a successful male lawyer and as a successful female one, within the same person. They had friends who knew them as one gender or the other – few knew both sides. Alongside their work with refugees and asylum seekers, Burgess represented transgender clients in a series of ground-breaking cases, in which they sought to win full legal recognition for his clients' changed gender status. In the 1980s, they acted on behalf of Mark Rees, a female-to-male transsexual who wished to have the gender on his birth certificate altered, and he also campaigned for the right of Stephen Whittle, a female-to-male transsexual parent to be legally recognised as the father of his children. Whittle, who wrote an online obituary referring to Burgess in female terms, remembers his lawyer coming up with "brilliant strategies… She would say they came to her in the shower." Burgess, he continues, had "a mission… to rescue the earth's dispossessed." He/she was pushed under an incoming train in London, by a transgender woman acquaintance.
Professionally, it seemed Burgess was drawn to defending the marginalised: the misfits and the outsiders who were too readily ignored or persecuted by the mainstream. And it is clear that, in their personal life, they underwent their own struggles with identity and social acceptance. The situation was described thus, with him as a man: "In many ways, he was something of an outsider himself; his was a position of empathy with the client, not sympathy. He did not do 'professional detachment'… We can speculate as to whether he enjoyed the way that he compartmentalised elements of his life or whether that was the only defence he had against a world which does not cope well with individuality such as his.
Was Burgess better able to relate to an asylum seeker's plight because of his own awareness of how difficult it could be to fit in, to find one's place in the world? Perhaps. But whereas Burgess was able to give so many of his clients the peace of mind they longed for, there is, for many of his friends, a sadness in the realisation that he seemed unable to achieve a similar resolution in his own life”.
On the day that Burgess was killed, he was living as a woman and yet working as a man. The killer was a transgender woman who Burgess had given shelter and legal support to. They have never explained their motive for the murder.
Stacey Blahnik, USA, aged 31. She was a trans woman who was found Murdered, by her boyfriend, in her Point Breeze, Philadelphia home.

Asher Brown, USA, aged 13. Asher’s family said, he was "bullied to death" — picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class. He died with straight as on his school report card. The 13-year-old's parents said they had complained about the bullying to Hamilton Middle School officials during the past 18 months, but claimed their concerns fell on deaf ears. Asher is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Tyler Clementi, USA, aged 18. Tyler was a student who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge at the age of 18. Clementi’s roommate used a webcam on his dorm-room computer and his hallmate Molly Wei's computer to view, without Clementi's knowledge, Clementi's kissing another man. Clementi eventually found out, after it was posted on Twitter. Two days later, the roommate urged friends and Twitter followers to watch via his webcam a second tryst between Clementi and his friend, though the viewing never occurred. The roommate and acomplice were federally indicted for their roles in the webcam incidents, though they were not charged with a role in the suicide itself. Tyler is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Raymond Chase, USA, aged 19. Raymond posted “I like to laugh, I like to have fun and I’m gay,” on Facebook. Chase wrote a note to his loved ones—filled with praise and deep affection for them, but no explanation for his actions—and proceeded to hang himself in his dorm room. According to the Providence, Rhode Island, police, a standard investigation was opened, but was shortly closed because “…there is no indication that Chase suffered at the hands of anything but his own demons...” He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Billy Lucas, USA, aged 15. Billy was found dead in a barn at his grandmother’s home. He had hanged himself. While Billy never self-identified as gay, friends said he was tormented for years because other kids thought he was gay and told him he didn’t deserve to live. Ann Lucas said her son Billy talked to her just days before his suicide about being bullied. “He told me ‘Mom, you don’t know what it’s like to walk down the halls of school and be afraid of who’s going to hit you, who’s going to kick you.’” He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Seth Walsh, USA, aged 13. Seth was perpetually picked on for his mannerisms and his style of dressing. The bullying turned him to suicide. His Mom spoke of Seth placing a freshly picked spring flower in offering to his late dog Kelly, whom the family had just buried. "After giving the flower to Kelly, he went back to the family of flowers and gave an offering to the flowers for sacrificing one of their own members”. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Victoria Carmen White, USA, aged 28. She was a model who was trans woman. She was murdered in Alrashim. A man was brought to trial for her death, but was acquitted; he blamed another man, for the murder. The only motive suggested was transphobic violence; the words "You a dude?" were heard by White's friends (who were in an adjacent room) shortly before gunshots were fired.

Justin Norman Aaberg, USA, aged 15. Justin Aaberg took his life on July 9, 2010 at his home in Anoka, Minnesota. His mother and two brothers found his lifeless body hanging in his bedroom. Justin is one of five suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin School District (AHSD) in the last year. One teacher believes that 3 of the 5 suicides involved struggles around sexual identity. In Justin’s case, students report that he had been bullied due to his sexuality over a long period. He is acknowledged as a sorrowful martyr in the Antinoan faith.


2011 CE

Jamie Hubley, Canada, aged 15. Jamie kept a blog, in which he spoke candidly about his struggles with depression and surviving as an openly gay teenager. Incidents of bullying had hurt him deeply – it drove him to suicide. He was remembered as a “natural-born” performer who excelled in figure skating and theatre.

Jamey Rodemeyer, USA, aged 14. Jamey was open about his sexuality and faced severe bullying as a result of it. Rodemeyer encountered bullying throughout middle school because of his sexuality. Anonymously posted comments on his school account included hate messages such as, "JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND [sic] UGLY. HE MUST DIE!" or "I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!" Despite this, he used his experiences to make videos on YouTube under the username xgothemo99xx to help others who were experiencing similar situations. He also made a video for the "It Gets Better Project", a website dedicated to preventing teen suicide. Rodemeyer's inspiration to help others came from Lady Gaga, whom he admired most. He often referred to her in his videos and quoted her lyrics to provide guidance to others.
The police investigation concluded with no charges filed.
News of Jamey's death resulted in outrage by supporters worldwide. Following his death, Tim and Tracy Rodemeyer were interviewed by news media about their son and his struggles against bullying. Both parents took the opportunity to promote peace and equality in the hope of preventing occurrences similar to this.
Upon learning of Jamey’s death, Lady Gaga stated that she was extremely upset, spending her days "reflecting, crying and yelling." She went on to dedicate her song "Hair" to Jamey during a performance at the iHeartRadio music festival at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, saying, "I wrote this record about how your identity is really all you've got when you're in school...so tonight, Jamey, I know you're up there looking at us and you're not a victim. You're a lesson to all of us. I know it's a bit of a downer, but sometimes the right thing is more important than the music." Lady Gaga later met with President Barack Obama to discuss what his administration would do to prevent bullying in schools.
Also, in response to his death, reigning Miss New York Kaitlin Monte founded an online petition to bring the issue of cyberbullying (known as "Jamey's Law") to New York legislators. Shortly after, State Senator Jeffrey Klein proposed new cyberbullying legislation. The two joined to launch the New York Cyberbully Census.
Actor Zachary Quinto noted Rodemeyer's death as the genesis of his decision to come out publicly as gay, saying on his website "...but in light of Jamey's death – it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it – is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality". In response to Quinto's coming out (and in reaction to gay suicides caused by bullying), Dan Kloeffler of ABC News Now also came out.
The Fox TV show Glee referred to Jamey, when Finn (Cory Monteith) talked to Santana (Naya Rivera) about gay suicide in the episode "I Kissed a Girl"; it was further alluded to him in the episode "On My Way" when David Karofsky (Max Adler), a gay student tries to kill himself by hanging as a result of the (cyber)bullying that had befallen him because of his sexuality, although he is saved by his father just in time.
On February 25, 2012, Michael Knote started a memorial page for Jamey after watching a news story about him. He founded a Facebook page and non-profit organization called "Have a Gay Day", referring to the double meaning of the word "gay"—"homosexual" and "cheerful". In 2012, the American metalcore band, The Bella Donna, produced a song based on the death of Jamey called "Don't Jump". The song has clips of one of Jamey's friends speaking on his behalf. The video has been posted at YouTube.

Marcal Camero Tye, USA, aged 25. She was a trans woman from Forrest City, Arkansas. An unknown individual shot her in the head and dragged her behind or under their car. The murder is to date unsolved.

Nicholas Kelo, USA, aged 13. Nicholas Kelo, a student in Akron, Ohio, shot himself dead. His mother suspects that Nick may have gone for a gun because he was bullied after classmates began suspecting he was gay. The harassment began when Nick decided not to continue playing football after moving from middle to high school. He took band instead and that, says his mother Jacqueline, is what started the gossip about her son; his peers thought (wrongly, she says) that he must be gay if her prefers the sax. “After that, it [the bullying] spiraled out of control.” He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Jacob Rogers, USA, aged 18. Jacob Rogers had faced anti-gay bulling for four years, his senior year he began saying, “I don’t want to go back. Everyone is so mean. They call me a faggot, they call me gay, a queer.” He even dropped out of school around Thanksgiving just to get away from his tormentors, but it apparently didn’t end his pain—Rogers killed himself yesterday. However, before he died, he left passwords to his phone and email so investigators could see why he chose to take his own life. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Dee Dee Pierson, age unknown. Dee Dee was part of a tight knit, Kansas City community of low-income Black transgender women. For Dee Dee the threat of violence was a daily reality but her primary concerns were most often food and shelter. A man confessed to the murder, telling police that he had paid Pierson for sex and when he found out she was transgender, he became angry and killed her.


2012 CE

Raymond Taavel, Canada, aged 50. Raymond was a LGBTQ rights activist who was attacked and killed by a man outside a bar while protecting another person. He was thereafter, posthumously, awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. He played a key role in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)’s first ever Pride Week publication. He worked toward having the rainbow flag raised at Halifax City Hall. During his lifetime he also engaged in endeavors to legitimize equal marriage and transgender rights in Nova Scotia’s Human Rights Act. In 2017, the Department of Heritage and Culture Committee of the Halifax Regional Council selected Taavel as one of 30 Nova Scotians from the last century-and-a-half to be celebrated in the Vanguard exhibition at the Nova Scotia Museum for his “innovation and change in the face of diversity.” In 2019 Inglis Street Park was renamed the Raymond Taavel Park in his honour.

Marie Lapuz, Canada, aged 26. She was a trans woman who was stabbed to death in New Westminster.

Daniel Mauricio Zamudio Vera, Chile, aged 25. Daniel has become a symbol against homophobic violence in Chile after his murder. Zamudio was beaten and tortured for several hours in the San Borja Park in downtown Santiago. The four attackers, allegedly linked to a neo-Nazi gang, attacked him after learning he was gay. His death and all the media attention contributed to accelerating legislation against discrimination, as well as opening new doors of acceptance and tolerance of differences in the conservative country.

Anil Sadanandan (aka Mariya or ‘Sweet Maria’), India, age unknown. They were a gender fluid person who worked as a toll collector in Kollam, Kerrala. Their colleagues went to look for them when they didn’t turn up for and found their body inside the house. Their throat was slit, and a U-shaped wound was found on their stomach. Chilli powder was smeared on the body and around it to prevent the sniffer dogs from picking up smells. Hair was found in their right hand.

Agnés Torres Hernández, Mexico, aged 28. She was a trans woman activist, who was Murdered. Torres advocated for the legal recognition of transgender people in Mexico, and was murdered for her work in Atlixco, Puebla. Torres's body was found in a ravine showing signs of torture. Because of the violence evidently carried out upon her, Torres's murder was classified as a hate crime on the basis of transphobia. After her death, the Puebla state congress incorporated "hate crime" into the Civil Defense Code for crimes made on the basis of gender or sexual orientation.

Roger Crouch, United Kingdom, aged 55. Roger killed himself after leaving a grief-stricken, final, letter about his son Dominick who was bullied into suicide in 2010 (see above).

Kenneth James "Rodney" Weishuhn Jr., USA, aged 14. Kenneth attended South O'Brien High School as a freshman in Paullina, Iowa, along. Kenneth was bullied in person, death threats were sent to his mobile phone, and he was the subject of a Facebook hate group. He was targeted for being gay, having come out one month before his suicide. The bullying was characterized as "aggressive, merciless, and "overwhelming". In response to the bullying, Weishuhn took his own life by hanging himself in the family's garage. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Crain Conaway, USA, aged 47. She was a trans woman who was beaten to death in her home in Oceanside, California

Deoni Jones, USA, aged 23. She was a trans woman who was stabbed in the face and killed in Washington, D.C.

Josh Pacheco, USA, aged 17. Linden High School junior Josh Pacheco had a heart for theater and an infectious smile, but above all else he cared for others, his family said. “My son was very funny and exceptionally sensitive and loving to other people’s feelings,” said Pacheco’s mother, Lynnette Capehart. Josh committed suicide. His parents believe bullying is to blame. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Rene "Rosita" Hidalgo Hernandez, USA, age unknown. Rene was found gagged with multiple stab wounds and a slit neck March 15 in Miami. On November 19, according to The Miami Herald, police arrested a man who was charged with first-degree murder. Police told reporters that DNA evidence found on a used condom, sock, and underwear found near Rene's body matched a sample Pavon had given police when they were investigating the murder of a sex worker in 2011.

Coko Williams, USA, aged 35. She was a trans woman who was found dead in Detroit. She had been shot and her throat had been cut.

Eric James Borges, USA, aged 19. The suicide of young filmmaker Eric shocked his friends. "He advocated pro-life for gays. He wouldn't want anyone to [commit suicide]," said close friend James Criss. "It's so shocking to see that he did it himself." Borges made a video just last month for the "It Gets Better" project, a campaign that features personal hope-filled videos to LGBT teens to get them through difficult times. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Tyrell Jackson, USA, aged 23. She was a trans woman, who was shot dead in Riviera Beach, Florida. A friend of hers was injured in the same attack.

Jeffrey Fehr, USA, aged 18. He was bullied into suicide. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Philip Parker, USA, aged 14. Philip was bullied into suicide. His parents and grandparents found 14-year-old Phillip Parker’s body along with a handwritten note in his trash can reading, “Please help me mom.” Family members say they had previously reported concerns about their son’s treatment to Gordonsville High School but to no avail. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Jack Reese, USA, aged 17. Jack was “very good with computers and loved to play his X-Box games”. He took his own life after allegedly being subjected to anti-gay bullying at school. His boyfriend Alex Smith spoke frankly about the repeated bullying the teen had experienced at school. As one official is quoted off the record: “It happens here about once a week, but officially, you know, it doesn’t happen here.” He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Paige Clay, USA, aged 23. She was a trans woman and was found dead in Chicago. She had been shot in the face.

Tiffany Gooden, USA, aged 19. She was a trans woman who was found dead in Chicago from multiple stab wounds a few blocks from where Paige Clay's body was discovered. Both murders are still unsolved.

Brandy Martell, USA, aged 37. She was a trans woman who was shot to death in Oakland, California.

Lorena ‘Xtravaganza’ Escalera, USA, aged 26. She was a Puerto Rican trans woman who was found unconscious and unresponsive in her Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City apartment. Her apartment was set on fire after she had been strangled then suffocated, apparently by two men whom she had brought into her home.

Tracey Johnson, USA, aged 40. She was a trans woman who was shot to death in Baltimore, Maryland.

Deja Johnson, USA, aged 33. She was a trans woman who was shot dead in Miami, Florida

Kendall Hampton, USA, aged 26. She was a trans woman who was shot dead in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kyra "Cruz" Cordova, aged 27. She was a trans woman who was shot in the head in Philadelphia.


2013 CE

Kimberly Sody, Dominican Republic, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was beaten and died of her injuries. Her killer was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Dwayne Jones, Jamaica, aged 16. He was a trans man who was beaten, stabbed, and run over by a car after attending a party in gender affirming clothing for the first time.

Jessica Vargas Bringas, aka José Manuel Vargas Bringas, Mexico. She was a trans woman who was stabbed to death in Altamira

Joel Sanchez Molero, Peru, aged 19. He was tortured and murdered for being gay.

Vladislav Tornovoi, Russia, aged 23. He was murdered for being gay.

Mohamed Ali Baashi, Somalia, aged 18. He was executed, by stoning, for being gay.

Steven Simpson, United Kingdom, aged 18. Steven had Asperger’s syndrome, a speech impairment and epilepsy. He was described as “a very caring and likeable young man” and a “generous spirit”. At a party he was, reportedly, dared to strip down to his underpants before being doused in tanning oil, after which he was set aflame. Anti-gay messages, including “gay boy” and “I love d*ck,” had been found scrawled across his body. A 20-year-old man was sentenced to three and a half years in jail for the death of Steven Simpson after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Mark Carson, USA aged 32. He was murdered for being gay.

Jadin Robert Joseph Bell, USA, aged 15. Jadin was "intensely bullied" both in person and on the internet because he was gay. He was a member of the La Grande High School cheerleading team in La Grande, Oregon, where he was a sophomore. Jadin went to a local elementary school and hanged himself from the play structure. He did not immediately die from the strangulation and was rushed to the emergency department, where he was kept on life support.

Joe Bell, USA, after Jadin Bell's death, his father Joe planned a cross-country tribute in honour of his son. He planned to walk across the entire continental United States within two years, spreading awareness about bullying and the effects that it can have. Bell resigned from his job and helped launch Faces for Change, a non-profit anti-bullying foundation, to speak in high schools across the U.S. He stated: "Not doing anything is not acceptable. [Those who watch and do nothing] are just as guilty. They are saying that it is acceptable."
Joe Bell was killed half way through his journey after he was hit by a semi-truck in Colorado. The driver of the truck was charged with reckless driving and may have fallen asleep at the wheel.

Evon Young, USA, aged 22. He was trans man who was a rapper known at Yung LT. He went missing and was later found dead on wasteland. A friend claimed five men were responsible – they had taken him to a basement then tortured him to death.

Cernia "Ce Ce" Dove, USA, aged 20. She was a trans woman who was stabbed to death in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Authorities later confirmed her body was found at bottom of a pond on with a rope tying her waist to a concrete block.

Kelly Young, USA, aged 29. She was a trans woman who was shot inside her home in Baltimore

Ashley Sinclair (aka ‘Mahogany Singleton’), USA, aged 30. She was a trans woman who was known by the stage name

Mahogany Singleton and was popular in the local LGBT community for her performances. She was found shot to death Thursday morning in a wooded area in the Oak Ridge area of Orange County.

Islan Nettles, USA, aged 21. She was a trans woman who was beaten to death in Harlem, New York after a group of at least seven men accosted her and two of her transgender friends. One of the men had been flirting with her. After he realized she was transgender, he struck her. After falling down, he proceeded to beat her. She died of head injuries in hospital. Her death prompted a number of protests. The killer was sentenced 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter

Dominique Newburn, USA, aged 32. She was a trans woman who was Murdered by her former boyfriend.

Melony Smith , USA, aged 26. She was found dead in a motel room in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles. A man received a 26-year prison sentence for her death

Alexander “AJ” Betts Jr, USA, aged 16. He was bullied into suicide – his eyes and other organs were rejected by organ donation authorities because he was gay. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Eyricka Morgan, USA, aged 26. She was a trans woman who was stabbed to death. A man was arrested and charged with murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Betty Skinner, USA , aged 52. She was a disabled trans woman who was found dead in her assisted living complex in Cleveland. Police believe she was beaten to death.

Brittany-Nicole Kidd-Stergis, USA, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was found dead in her parked car with a gunshot wound to her head. Some of the local media was criticized for referring to her as a man while reporting on her murder. She was the third transgender woman killed in 2013 in the Cleveland.


2014 CE

Pamela Moreno, Argentina, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who was struck by a vehicle and killed during an altercation and robbery in La Banda. A police officer who had a history with Moreno was charged with her murder

Mayang Prasetyo, Australia, aged 27. She was an Indonesian trans woman who killed in Brisbane, Queensland by her husband, a chef. Media adverts reveal Ms Prasetyo charged from $200 to $500 for her services as an "international escort". Her husband took his own life shortly after police found the woman's remains boiling on the stove in the couple's flat.

Tori Johnson, Australia, aged 34. He was the manager of the Lindt café in Sydney when a terrorist entered the café and held hostages. He murdered Tori when he tried to intervene. Tori is acknowledged as a Heroic Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

João Antônio Donati, Brazil, aged 18. He was murdered for being gay. João Donati has the honor of being the first officially proclaimed Martyr Saint of Brazil and a large demonstration took place which was led by members of the Antinous religion in Sao Paulo.

Kaique Augusto Batista dos Santos, aged 17. Kaique’s mother, Isabel, had initially reported her son’s death as murder but later changed her mind to suicide. Isabel and the family lawyer said that Kaique suffered from depression because of an unrequited love for another boy. According to the two, this amorous disappointment would have motivated suicide. They came to this conclusion after reading the teenager's diary and also through testimonies from friends and relatives.

365 Brazilian innocent martyrs 2014, Deco Ribiero, priest of the Antinoan faith reported their known names and circumstances. These have been counted in the overall total.

Rosa Rebut, Canada, aged . She was an Indonesian trans woman who was found beaten to death in an Edmonton, Alberta, hotel. Police arrested a man and charged him with second-degree murder.

Marcela Duque, Colombia, aged 46. She was a transgender woman who was stoned to death on a street in Medellin, by a group of attackers.

Mahadevi, India, aged 22. She was a disabled trans woman who was pushed off a moving train in Bangalore.

Keeta Bakhsh, Pakistan, aged Unknown. She was a trans woman who died following a beating in Bahawalpur. It occurred while police raided her house. Police originally claimed her injuries were due to jumping from a moving police van but have since suspended the raid's leader.

Jennifer Laude, Philippines, aged unknown. She was a trans woman, living in Olongapo, who was allegedly strangled to death by a US. The trial of this case is currently ongoing in the Philippines.

Mary Jo Añonuevo, Philippines, aged unknown.She was a trans woman who was strangled and stabbed 33 times in the bar she owned in Lucena City.

Cingene Gül Turkey, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was killed in her home

Çagla Joker, Turkey, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was fatally shot in Istanbul while another trans woman was shot but survived.

Kandy Hall, USA, aged unknown. She was a trans woman who was found dead due to massive bodily trauma by an unknown object in a field near a school in Baltimore, Maryland. It's the latest in a growing number of attacks on transgender people in the city, including a previous murder, according to CBS Baltimore.

Leelah Alcorn, USA, aged 17. She was a transgender girl who committed suicide to make a statement about the societal standards of transgender people. She wrote that her fundamentalist Christian parents refused to accept her and took her out of school and cut her off from the outside world for five months. They sent her to Christian therapists to brainwash her into believing she was a heterosexual boy. She committed suicide by walking into the path of a tandem-trailer truck on a highway near her home in Ohio. She is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Shelley "Treasure" Hilliard, aged 19. She was a trans woman who was killed on in Detroit - her body was badly burned.

Mia Henderson, USA, aged 26. She was a trans woman, was found dead in Baltimore, Maryland. Her murder reportedly bore similarities to the recent local murder of Kandy Hall (above).

Tiffany Edwards, USA, aged 28. She was trans woman who was killed by a man in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.

Aniya Parker, USA, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was Murdered in Los Angeles during, what police considered, a robbery gone wrong, though the attackers did not take her purse and advocates believe she was targeted due to being transgender.

Yaz'min Shancez, USA, aged 31. She was a trans woman who was found dead behind a garbage bin in Fort Myers, Florida. Her body was badly burned post-mortem

Alejandra Leos, USA, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was shot in the back and died in Memphis, Tennessee. A suspect was later arrested and charged with first degree murder.

Zoraida "Ale" Reyes, USA, aged 28. She was Mexican American trans woman who was discovered behind a Dairy Queen Restaurant in Anaheim, California. Police arrested a man for choking her to death.

Ashley (Michelle) Sherman, USA, aged 27 She was a transwoman who was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, lying underneath a light pole at Indianapolis's Tudor Park.

Gilbert/Breana "Gizzy" Fowler, USA, aged 24. They were a gender non-specific person who was found shot dead outside her car in Nashville, Tennessee.

Deshawnda Sanchez, USA, aged 21. She was a trans woman who was shot and killed in Los Angeles.

Ramon Estrada, USA aged 36. Ramon phoned his boyfriend of 13 years, Michael Shutt, saying he’d just left the Gold Coast, a bar in West Hollywood where he was a regular, that he would be home soon and to leave the door unlocked because he had forgotten his keys. But the 36-year-old Inglewood native never made it home. Estrada was found beaten and lying unconscious, his wallet and phone missing, between two cars parked on Santa Monica Boulevard, near Mansfield Avenue, just two blocks from his apartment at Lexington and Citrus avenues. Estrada was taken to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where he was a coma for almost a month before dying on August 5.

Bryan Higgins, USA, aged 31. Bryan was a member of the Radical Faeries and known to friends as ‘Feather Lynn’. He was taken off life support as his loved ones gathered for a vigil. He was left unconscious and critically injured after a beating.

Ahmed Said, USA, aged 27. He was murdered by a terrorist on a shooting spree in Washington.

Dwone Anderson Young, USA, aged 23. He was murdered by a terrorist on a shooting spree in Washington.


2015 CE

Fernanda "Coty" Olmos, Argentina, aged 59. She was a transgender woman who was found in her Alfonso home stabbed and shot to death.

Marcela Estefania Chocobar, Argentina, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who found Murdered in Santa Cruz, Argentina.
Chocobar was an activist who went missing for several days before her remains were found. Her body was so badly burned and dismembered that her identity had to be verified by DNA.

Diana Sacayán, Argentina, aged 40. She was a transgender woman who was a prominent transgender activist and was a leader of Argentina's Antidiscrimination Liberation Movement. She was found in her apartment with multiple stab wounds. Her death is being investigated as a hate crime.

Yoshi Tsuchida, Japan, aged 38. He was a transgender man who was discovered wrapped in a blanket at his apartment in Fussa City, Tokyo. Police reported that his face had been sliced off with a sharp instrument. Pathology tests on Tsuchida's body found the cause of death to be medicinal poisoning. Tsuchida's body was discovered by his adopted daughter

Ahmed bin ‘Adhaib bin ‘Askar al-Shamlani al-‘Anzi, Saudi Arabia, aged 22. He was tortured, beheaded and his body crucified, by the Saudi government, based on allegations that he was gay.

Vanessa Santillan, United Kingdom, aged 33. She was a transgender woman who was killed in an apartment in Fulham, London, after responding to a neighbour's phone call.

David Spencer, USA, aged 32. He was murdered by his 69-year-old neighbour - an ex policeman - because he went to kiss him. He was stabbed twice. The killer handed himself in, admitted murder but used the ‘gay panic’ phrase in court so was only
sentenced to six months in jail. He had to complete 100 hours of community service, pay $11,000 in restitution to Spencer’s family and use a portable alcohol monitoring service for at least a year. He was also put on probation for a decade.

Papi Edwards, USA aged 20. aged 20. She was a trans woman from Kentucky. She died of a single bullet wound to the chest at Fern Valley Motel in Louisville. She was shot by a client of hers who claimed he did not know she was trans The Advocate, among other media sources, originally reported that Edwards identified as a gay man answering to Lamar and/or Goddess, who likely wore drag. It has since been confirmed by others close to Papi and reported by various sources that Edwards identified as a female.

Lamia Beard, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered. Family described Lamia as a very smart woman who spoke fluent French and was an avid reader. She favoured encyclopaedias. Lamia was very active in band in high school and was very gifted with instruments, especially the oboe, piccolo and the flute.

Ty Underwood, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who was shot and left abandoned in a crashed car by her boyfriend.

Yasmin/Yazmin ‘Vash’ Payne, USA, aged 33. She was a transgender woman who died after being stabbed several times by partner, who then set their apartment on fire.

Taja Gabrielle DeJesus, USA, aged 36. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed by a man.

Penny Proud, USA, ages 21. Penny was a transgender woman who was fatally shot multiple times by an unidentified assailant in the Treme district of New Orleans.

Bri Golec, USA, aged 22. Her friends say that they identified as a trans woman. They were stabbed to death by their father, who claimed to authorities that the murder was performed by a 'cult.'.

Kristina Gomez Reinwald (aka Christina (or Kristina) Grant Infiniti). USA, aged 46. She was a transgender woman who was discovered deceased by stab wounds, at her southwest Miami home. Miami police have ruled the death a homicide, after initially concluding she died by suicide.

Keyshia Blige, USA, aged 33. Keyshia Blige, of Aurora, Illinois, was not initially identified as transgender by local media which named her as Bryce Stiff, but her best friend reported her actual gender identity to the Guardian (UK). Keyshia was driving a car with a friend in the passenger seat when several shots were fired. One shot hit Blige, who kept driving but eventually crashed into another car. “It’s definitely not a hate crime,” the media relations manager for the Aurora police department, said. “But we have some working theories that we are looking into.”

London Chanel, USA, aged 21. She was a trans woman fatally stabbed in Philadelphia by the boyfriend of one of her roommates.

Shade Schuler, USA, aged 22. Shade was a transgender woman. Her body was discovered dumped in a field off Riverside Drive in Dallas. It was so decomposed that it took police two weeks to identify her. The Dallas police department continues on its website to misidentify Schuler as a male.

Amber Monroe, USA, aged 20. Murdered in Detroit, Michigan. She was a transwoman who had been shot on three prior occasions, her fear of the police kept her from reporting the crimes.

Mercedes Williamson, USA, aged 17. She was a trans woman from Alabama. She was killed in George County, Mississippi. Her body was found after her killer told his father about the murder.

Jasmine Collins, USA, aged 32. She was a trans woman who was found stabbed to death in Kansas City, Missouri. She was misgendered and deadnamed which prevented her loved ones from learning of her death for ten days, despite asking police who had her murderer in custody.

Ashton O'Hara, USA, aged 25. They were a genderfluid person who was found Murdered in a field They were found dead in a Detroit, Michigan field.

India Clarke, USA, aged 25. She was a trans woman who was shot dead in Tampa, Florida. She was subsequently misgendered in reports by the media and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

K.C. Haggard, USA, aged 66. She was a transgender woman who was walking along Blackstone Avenue, Fresno, when a vehicle pulled over and the car’s occupants began talking to her. In a surveillance video supplied by a business across the street, K.C. can be seen speaking with both the passenger and driver of the vehicle. K.C. was stabbed in the neck a few moments later, after she leaned closer to the open window of the passenger side of the vehicle. The footage then shows the car speeding off. Passers-by "did nothing but look at her body on the ground as she bled [to death].”

Kandis Capri, USA, aged 35. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Elisha Walker, USA, aged 20. She was a transgender woman who had been missing for almost a year, was found in a “crude grave” in Johnston County, North Carolina. more than 100 miles from her home in Salisbury, North Carolina. She had been reported missing a year before.

Tamara Dominguez, USA, aged 36. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Kansas City, Missouri. Originally from Veracruz, Mexico, Tamara came to The United States to escape discrimination against her gender identity; living quietly in the States for seven years until she was intentionally hit by an SUV, then run back over three times.

Kiesha Jenkins, USA, aged 22. She was a transgender woman, in North Philadelphia she was beaten and shot by five to six men after getting out of a car.

Zella Ziona, USA, aged 21. She was a transgender woman who was shot dead in Montgomery County, Maryland. In arrest documents police indicated that Ziona’s transgender status may have played a role in her death. They said she had earlier approached her killer in a shopping mall in front of his friends, embarrassing him by acting in a manner that suggested the two knew each other. Zella’s mother later witnessed the murder.

Draven Rodriguez, USA, aged 17. Draven had requested that a photo of himself and his cat be added to his school yearbook. He posted the photo on social media and it got Worldwide media attention. That resulted in a lot of negative social media though. Draven took his own life. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Martyr in the Antinoan faith.


2016 CE

Nadine Stransen, Australia, aged . She was a transgender woman from Sydney who was found murdered in her apartment. The coroner’s findings were that there was no need for an inquest. The cause was deemed by the autopsy to be “unascertained”, and, based on the balance of probabilities, and the meagre evidence before them, the coroner ruled there was no foul play involved. The final finding was death by “chronic alcoholism”. Some family and community members believe it was murder
Ágatha Mont, Brazil, aged 26. She was a university student found strangled in Itapevi, São Paulo after being threatened for using the women's toilet.

Mirella de Carllo, Brazil, aged 39. She was a trans woman and activist, was found strangled to death.

Bié, aka Bianca Abravanel, Brazil, aged 25. She was a transgender woman who was Murdered in the Vila Rica neighborhood of Ribeirão, Pernambuco. Four men approached Bianca and shot her at least 15 times in the face and chest. A 16-year-old boy, who was with Bianca, had tried to hide from the killers but was hit by a shot in his left leg and injured.

T.E. de M. Geremias, Brazil, aged 37. She was a trans woman who was fatally stabbed in the Sao Marcos neighbourhood of Valinhos.

Paula, Brazil, age unknown. She was a transgender woman, identified only as "Paula". She was found by police on the side of a road in the municipality of Goiandira with head injuries. She was sent to the emergency room but because of a lack of documents was later transferred to a hospital in Goiania where she died four days later. A suspect was arrested in the case, but further details are unknown

Jessica Mendes Cavalcanti, Brazil, aged 24. She was a trans woman who was confronted by two young men and fatally stabbed to death. One of the suspects was apprehended by police and confessed that Cavalcanti being transgender was the motive of the crime.

Leticia B. da Silva, Brazil, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was Murdered in Benguí, Belem. She was walking home when two men on motorcycles fatally shot her .

Nathallya Figueiredo, Brazil, aged 25. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed to death in a car in Capão da Canoa. A caretaker of a building nearby the scene had witnessed the scene and alerted police. Her body was found buried in Cachoeirinha in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre

Emanuelle Muniz, Brazil, aged 21. She was a trans woman who had been preparing for gender confirmation surgery. She was kidnapped and murdered in Annapolis by a blunt to the head with a stone.

Antonio Kvalo, Brazil age unknown. He was beaten for being gay in Rio de Janeiro. Kvalo had created a website named Tem Local? for people to document instances of LGBTI violence.

Hérika Izidoro, Brazil, aged 24. She was a transgender woman murdered on account of their gender identity.

Andinho, Brazil, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was shot several times and died on the scene, in Aracaju, Sergipe.

Michelly Garcia, Brazil, aged 25. She was a trans woman who was murdered on account of their gender identity.

Jennifer Celia Henrique, Brazil, aged 37. She was a trans woman who was murdered on account of their gender identity.

Lexia Alves de Brito, Brazil, aged 30. She was a trans woman who was murdered on account of their gender identity.

Camila Albuquerque, Brazil, aged 20. She was a trans woman who was murdered on account of their gender identity.

Bruna Tavares, Brazil, aged 17. She was a trans woman who was murdered on account of their gender identity.

Wellington Júlio de Castro Mendonça, Brazil, aged 24. His friends believe he was stoned to death because he was gay.

Gabriel Figueira Lima, Brazil, aged 21. He was stabbed in the neck and left to die because he was gay.

Raina Aliev, Chechnya, aged 25. She was Muslim transgender woman killed and disfigured just after marrying a man in Russia. Her family had called for her execution.

Niurkeli, France, aged 33. She was a trans woman from Ecuador who was strangled and burned on Nantes, France. A suspect was arrested.

Lorena F. Zaratevilcas, France, aged 53. She was a Peruvian transgender woman and sex worker who was killed by a gunshot to the head in Rouen, France.

Tara, India, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was found severely burnt outside a police station. She died. Police had stopped her the night before and accused her of soliciting sex work while she charged her phone at a 24-hour store. They confiscated her phone and the keys to her vehicle that night. According to a friend, when she argued, she was assaulted by the police, who then took her to the police station for questioning, where they allegedly assaulted her again

In Xalapa, Mexico, up to fifteen people were killed, and over 50 injured in a mass shooting at La Madame gay bar in. The known to have been murdered are:
Cristian Pacheco, aged 31.
Lucas Gustavo Hernández Ruiz, aged 22.
Alexis Jiménez Suárez, aged 21.
Francisco Javier Marín Hernández, aged 21.
Isaac Nathanael, age unknown.
Luis Donaldo Rivera Calderón, aged 20.

Jorge Fernandez Martínez, Mexico, aged 19. He was the victim of a homophobic murder in Tultitlán. Forensic tests showed he had been tortured, raped and asphyxiated. His broken body lay undiscovered for days. He had a funeral in the name of Antinous - the first funeral for a worshiper of Antinous since ancient times. Now he is in the arms of Antinous.
Monica Pineda Rivera, Mexico, aged unknown. She was a trans woman and sex worker. She was stabbed to death in Cuernavaca. Despite the fact that some witnesses reported to the press that the murderer was a taxi driver, the incident was never clarified.

Paulett Gonzalez, Mexico, aged 24. She was a trans woman and beauty queen. She was Murdered, burned beyond recognition and found by police in Celaya, Guanajuato a month after her disappearance.

Paola Ledesma, Mexico, aged 27. She was a trans woman who was rejected by her family and left her birthplace to become a sex worker in Mexico City. She was shot by a client who became angry after he found out that she was transgender. He was released after a judge determined that there was insufficient evidence to judge him

Itzel Durán Castellanos, Mexico, aged 19. She was a trans woman and beauty queen who was stabbed to death inside her house in Comitán, Chiapas. She had quarrelled with a man who was arrested by the police a few days later.

Alessa Flores, Mexico, aged 28. She was a trans woman, LGBT activist and sex worker who was tortured and strangled to death by an unknown client inside a hotel room in Mexico City. The murderer was never found.

Agencia EFE in Mexico, reported that 202 murders of LGBT people had taken place between 2014 and 2016 in Mexico.

Alisha, Pakistan, aged 23. She was a transgender activist, was shot seven times and died.

Barbie Ann Reilly, Philippines, aged 23. She was a transgender woman who was murdered by her partner, in Pasay City. Her body was found stuffed inside a suitcase beside a road.

Hande Kader, Turkey, aged 22. She was a transgender woman who was raped, Murdered, and then burned in Istanbul. She was also a prominent activist in the LGBT community of Turkey and had appeared in LGBTI rights events.

William Lound, United Kingdom, aged 30. He was a transgender man who suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the University of Salford, where he had been a student.

USA. The Pulse Nightclub, Florida, terrorist attack victims were:
Stanley Almodovar III, aged 23.
Amanda Alvear, aged 25.
Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, aged 26.
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, aged 33.
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, aged 21.
Martin Benitez Torres, aged 33.
Antonio D. Brown, aged 30.
Darryl R. Burt II, aged 29.
Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, aged 24.
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, aged 28.
Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez, aged 31.
Juan Chevez-Martinez, aged 25.
Luis D. Conde, aged 39.
Cory J. Connell, 21.
Tevin E. Crosby, aged 25.
Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, aged 50.
Deonka D. Drayton, aged 32.
Mercedez M. Flores, aged 26.
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, aged 22.
Juan R. Guerrero, aged 22.
Paul T. Henry, aged 41.
Frank Hernandez, aged 27.
Miguel A. Honorato, aged 30.
Javier Jorge-Reyes, aged 40.
Jason B. Josaphat, aged 19.
Eddie J. Justice, aged 30.
Anthony L. Laureano Disla, aged 25.
Christopher A. Leinonen, aged 32.
Brenda L. Marquez McCool, aged 49.
Jean C. Mendez Perez, aged 35.
Akyra Monet Murray, aged 18.
Kimberly Morris, aged 37.
Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, aged 27.
Luis O. Ocasio-Capo, aged 20.
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, aged 25.
Eric I. Ortiz-Rivera, aged 36.
Joel Rayon Paniagua, aged 32.
Enrique L. Rios Jr. aged 25.
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, aged 37.
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, aged 24.
Christopher J. Sanfeliz, aged 24.
Xavier E. Serrano Rosado, aged 35.
Gilberto R. Silva Menendez, aged 25.
Edward Sotomayor Jr. aged 34.
Shane E. Tomlinson, aged 33.
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, aged 25.
Luis S. Vielma, aged 22.
Luis D. Wilson-Leon, aged 37.
Jerald A. Wright, aged 31.

India Monroe, USA, aged 29. She was a trans woman who was found shot to death along with Mark Gray, 37, in a home in Newport News, Virginia. Local news reports at first identified Monroe as male. She was buried under her birth name, with her hair cut short and other facets of her appearance altered to make her look male. Newport News police have ruled Monroe's death a homicide but are investigating it as a domestic incident, not a hate crime

Noony Norwood, USA, aged 30. She was a transgender woman who was shot and killed in Virginia. Police are investigating surveillance of a man leaving the scene.

Sierra/Simon Bush, USA, aged 18. They were a gender nonconforming person who was a student at Boise State University. They went missing and their body was found naked in a rural area creek, south of Idaho City about 30 miles away from their home a month later. An investigation is still on-going, and Police have said the case is being investigated as suspicious

Brandi Bledsoe, USA, aged 32. She was a trans woman from Cleveland, Ohio. She was found dead in a driveway by a 5-year-old boy. Her body was wearing only underwear with white plastic bags covering her head and hands

Jazz Alford, USA, aged 30. She was a trans woman from North Carolina. She was killed in her hotel room in Birmingham, Alabama. She was initially misgendered by the police, but her sister Toya Milan, also a trans woman, corrected the record as to her sister's gender

Crystal Edmunds, USA, aged 32. She was a ck trans woman who was killed in Baltimore

Rae’Lynn Thomas, USA, aged 28. She was a trans woman who was shot twice in front of her mother, and then beaten to death by a man in Columbus, Ohio. She had begged for her life while the killer called her "the devil" and made transphobic comments. Her family called for the murder to be investigated as a hate crime, but Ohio hate crime statues do not cover gender identity

Skye Mockabee, USA, aged 26. She was a 26-year-old transgender woman who was found in a parking lot having died of a head wound. No suspects were identified, no arrests made

Dee Wingham, USA, aged 25. She was a trans woman who worked as a nurse. She was stabbed to death in the face and body in her hotel room in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she was staying with friends to see a rodeo. Police arrested a 20-year-old as the suspected killer

Deeniquia Dodds, USA, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was shot in the neck near her home in Washington D.C. The shot left her hospitalized on life support until she died

‘Goddess’ Diamond, USA, aged 20. She was a trans woman who was found in a torched car in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died from blunt force trauma before the car was burned

Mercedes Successful, USA, aged 32. She was a transgender woman who was found dead in a Haines City, Florida parking lot, after being shot. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, she was an active member of the LGBT community in the United States

Tyreece Walker, USA, aged 32. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Wichita, Kansas by a 16-year-old boy who is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing Tyreece to death. Police identified the victim using male pronouns and the name Tyreece Walker, though friends and family of the deceased told police that Walker identified as a transgender woman.

Keyonna Blakeney, USA, aged 22. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed during a robbery. The killer accompanied another man who had arranged to meet Keyonna, for a date at the Red Roof Inn in Rockville, Md., but they actually intended to rob her, according to court documents Blakeney was found dead of multiple stab wounds and her room “appeared to have been ransacked. Five days before Blakeney’s death, the killer had pleaded guilty to a weapons charge, after being arrested for brandishing a knife on a Metro train platform

Shante Issac, USA, aged 34. She was a transgender woman who was murdered at a Houston residence alongside her friend Willie Sims who tried to protect her. Family members are asking the public for help in identifying the murderer. Isaac, a transgender woman known as Shante to friends, was on the phone with mother, Leola Thompson, just before the attack.
"He said, 'I'll call you right back, I'll call you right back,'" Thompson told KTRK.
Chuck Smith, the CEO of Equality Texas, pointed to the transphobic and homophobic fearmongering that has "engulfed" Houston in the past few years. Anti-LGBT scare tactics in local media most notably resulted in the the repeal of the pro-LGBT Houston Equal Rights Ordinance in 2015. "The rhetoric is fueling an atmosphere of hate in Houston and Texas and across the country that is causing innocent Texans to be beaten and killed,” said Smith in a statement. “This rhetoric is unacceptable and has real consequences for real Texans who are victims of hate crimes.”
Issac is at least the eighth known transgender person killed in the U.S. this year — the vast majority of whom have been trans women of color. Last month, a transgender woman named Quartney Davia Dawsonn-Yoachum was killed in what police believe was a domestic dispute on Los Angeles's "Skid Row," while Jasmine Sierra was found dead in January in Bakersfield, Calif. In February, 30-year-old Louisiana trans man Demarkis Stansberry was shot to death, the same month that police shot and killed 24-year-old Arizona trans man Kayden Clarke in his own home. In the span of 24 hours in late February, Philadelphia police discovered the bodies of two transgender women, including 25-year-old Maya Young and Veronica Banks Cano. Texas trans woman Monica Loera was the first known trans person killed in the U.S. this year, shot to death in her own home on January 22. Murdered

Quartney Davia Dawsonn Yochum, USA, aged 32. She was a trans woman who was killed in Los Angeles. After a domestic dispute, she was out walking her dogs when a man came up to her and shot her in the head.

Kedarie/Kandicee Johnson, USA, aged 16. They were a genderfluid individual (who went by both names and used the pronoun they), was found dead and left in an alley.

Demarkis Stansberry, USA, aged 30. He was "a man of transgender experience" who was fatally shot in the head in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Monica Loera, USA, aged 43. She was a trans woman from North Austin, Texas. She was a sex worker and was Murdered after a client demanded entry to her home. Claiming to have forgotten his jacket he shot her. He was subsequently arrested. For days, both the media and police report identified Monica as a man and referred to her using her birth name

Jasmine Sierra, USA, aged 52. She was a trans woman from Bakersfield, California. She was found dead in an apartment with her body showing signs of “trauma and foul play” according to police. Local media had identified her as male and used her birth name

Kayden Clarke, USA, aged 24. He was a transgender man with Asperger's syndrome from Mesa, Arizona. He was fatally shot by police responding to a call. Some media reports erroneously identified him as a woman and used his former name. Some autism and disability advocacy groups were also upset by the killing of Clarke, seeing his death as highlighting the discrimination against autistic transgender people and transgender people with other developmental disabilities or mental health issues. He had posted videos on YouTube describing his experiences and was well-known from a viral video that showed him being calmed down during an Asperger's meltdown by his dog.

Veronica Banks Cano, USA, aged 40. She was a trans woman who was found dead, fully clothed in a bathtub in San Antonio, Texas.

Nino Acox Jackson, USA, aged 26. He was a trans man from Dallas, Texas who was found dead in Lake Ray Hubbard on after being declared missing a month earlier when his car was found abandoned.

Maya Young, aged 25. She was a trans woman who was fatally stabbed in Frankford, Philadelphia.

Shante Thompson, USA, aged 34. She was a transgender woman who was beaten and fatally shot in Houston, Texas. Witnesses reported that she and a male friend were swarmed by a group of up to eight people on the side of a road in the Midtown area

Reese/Reecey Walker, USA, aged 32. She was a transgender woman from Wichita, Kansas wo was stabbed to death in the in her Windridge apartment bedroom. A 16-year-old boy was arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder

Erykah/Erika Tijerina, USA, aged 36. She was a trans woman who was found dead in her apartment in El Paso, Texas. A police officer who entered the apartment discovered "obvious signs of foul play". Her sisters expressed belief that her death was a hate crime

Amos Beede, USA, aged 38. He was a homeless, transgender man who was severely beaten in Burlington, Vermont. He died of his injuries (broken bones, internal bleeding in the brain) in the hospital six days later.

Lexxi T. Sironen, USA, aged 43. Sshe was a homeless trans woman who was found in the Kennebec River in Maine

T.T. Saffore, USA, aged 26 or 27. She was a trans woman from Chicago's West Side. She was found Murdered in Garfield Park. Her throat had been cut and a knife was found nearby. According to a friend she got into an altercation with a younger trans woman who pulled a knife and allegedly said "I'm going to get you killed." Saffore did not report the crime to the Chicago Police Department due to a fear of abuse from CPD officers towards trans women who live on the West Side. Major media outlets misgendered her


2017 CE

Azul Montoro, Argentina, aged 24 or 26. She was a trans woman who was found dead, stabbed 18 times, along with a dog, in Córdoba.

Carolina/Camila Angulo Paredes, Argentina, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Buenos Aires.

Dandara dos Santos, Brazil, aged 42. She was a trans woman who was tortured and shot in the face in Bom Jardim, a poor neighbourhood of Fortaleza. The incident was filmed and published, which helped apprehend the at least five men who attacked her

Gabriel Fernandez, Brazil, aged 8. In 2012, the biological mother of Gabriel was given child custody of him, reportedly to gain welfare benefits. She was given custody in spite of concerns from her family, who had been taking care of Gabriel, that she was neglectful towards other children. She then was moved in with his mother and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre. Gabriel Fernandez was then systematically abused and tortured. The abuse included being forced to eat cat litter and feces, forced to eat his own vomit, regularly beaten which caused broken bones, burned in various parts of the body, shot in various areas of the body including the face and groin with a BB gun, forced to wear female clothing, forced to sleep bound and gagged in a small cupboard, pepper sprayed, burned with cigarettes, given cold baths, and forced to eat spoiled or expired food. According to Fernandez's siblings, while Fernandez was being abused his parents would laugh. The boyfriend reportedly abused Gabrial because he believed he was homosexual; there is no evidence that Gabrial was in fact homosexual. The abuse did not extend to Fernandez's siblings.

Bianka Gonçalves, Brazil, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was shot and killed in Primavera do Leste.

Wilka, Brazil, aged 40. She was a trans woman who was attacked and killed in Pernambuco, in the southern state of Loteamento Luiz Gonzaga. She suffered three stab wounds. According to a friend she was Murdered when someone realised that she was transgender whilst attempting to rob her. Images of her lying in a pool of her blood were uploaded to Facebook by a friend alongside heartfelt messages

Thadeu (Têu) Nascimento, Brazil, aged 24. He was a trans man who was killed in Salvador, Bahia. A local trafficker was arrested for the murder.

Tabata Brandão, Brazil, aged 30. She was a trans woman who was shot to death in Belo Horizonte

Larissa Valverde, Brazil, aged 24. She was a trans woman who was stabbed to death with what appears to have been a screwdriver in Belo Horizonte

Camila Guedes, Brazil, aged 31. She was a trans woman who was found stabbed to death in her Monte Mor home

Natalia Pimentel, Brazil, aged 22. She was a trans woman who died after being run down by a vehicle driven by a man. The man had approached Natalia and a friend with demands and ran her down after they refused. Natalia died in a hospital of her injuries in Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso

Danielle Jesus Lafon, Brazil, aged 47. She was a trans woman who was repeatedly stabbed to death in Poços de Caldas. Her body wasn't found for several days after her death

Nicole, Canada, aged 25. She was a trans woman who was found stabbed to death in her home in Sorriso. Accounts by neighbours place her murder sometime between 4 and 5 September.

Sisi Thibert, Canada, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed to death in Pointe St.Charles. A suspect was identified from surveillance footage

Alloura Wells, Canada, aged 27. She was a transgender woman who went missing in Toronto in July. Her body was found in August in the Rosedale Ravine by 2 women on a hike. Her death was not confirmed until November 2017.

Zelimkhan Khoussainovich Bakayev, Chechnya (self-governing, federal state of Russia), aged 26. Zelimkhan Bakaev is/was a gay, Chechen singer. He disappeared in Chechnya on 8 August 2017, while on a brief visit to the region to attend his sister's wedding. He is presumed murdered with approximately another 100, unidentified, Gay men killed by the government.
Jessica Rubi Mori, Dominican Republic, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was a sex worker and activist. She was killed, and her body dismembered, in Higüey.

Misty Garcia, El Salvador, aged 29. She was a transgender woman who was found beaten to death in Usulután.

Xavier Jugelé, France, aged 37. PARIS — He was a Paris police officer since 2010. He was a proud gay man and a committed policeman. He was among the officers who responded to a terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015, and he was in the crowd when Sting helped reopen the 19th-century building a year later. Xavier fell victim to terrorism himself. He was in a police vehicle on the heavily guarded Champs-Élysées, Paris’s most famous boulevard, when a gunman opened fire, killing him and wounding two other officers, along with a bystander. The gunman was shot dead as he tried to flee; the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack a short while later.

Mickaël Bucheron, president of Flag, a French association for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender police officers said “He was a simple man who loved his job, and he was really committed to the L.G.B.T. cause,” said. “He joined the association a few years ago, and he protested with us when there was the homosexual propaganda ban at the Sochi Olympic Games.”

Gauri, India, aged 35. found dead and suspected to have been strangled in Aluva in India

Sameera Krishnan,Malaysia, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who was kidnapped, beaten up and tortured by several men. Luckily, she was rescued. However, Sameera was murdered in Kuantan in Feb 2017. She was found dead. She had been shot in the posterior and four fingers of her right hand were cut off. She also had severe head injuries

Tavita Montes, Mexico, aged 24. She was a transgender woman, activist and a former university student. She was strangled to death by her boyfriend after a quarrel. Her corpse was found inside the trunk of her car in Colima.

Geraldine Contreras, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Colima.

C.N., Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered by gun in Guerrero

Canoa, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered by gun in Fortaleza.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was tortured to death in Veracruz.

Unconfirmed name, Mexico, aged 30. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was shot and then dragged to a vacant lot in a suburb of Cienega de Flores, near Monterrey.

Yadira, Mexico, aged 50. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed to death in Tehuacán.

Edgar, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and a sex worker. Her body was dumped from a car in the middle of a rural road in Tlaltizapán, Morelos. The corpse had a gunshot in the head.

Unconfirmed name, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was found beaten to death in San Gabriel Chilac. The news reports used her legal name of Jorge Negrete, but not their affirmed name.

Pedro Israel, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was shot in the middle of the night in one of the main avenues in Acapulco, Guerrero.

Manuela, Mexico, aged 26. She was a trans woman and sex worker who was found dead with a screwdriver lodged in her neck in Fresnillo, Zacatecas.

Hilario López Ruiz, Mexico, aged 26. She was a trans woman and sex worker who was found dead inside a wastewater drainage hole in Ciudad Juárez. Apparently, she was beaten to death by a client who discovered she was transgender.

Roberto Sánchez Durán, Mexico, age unknown.She was a transgender woman from Tepexco, Puebla who was shot dead outside an industrial complex located in the suburbs of Cuautla, Morelos, where she worked as a sex worker

Christian, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and member of a pro-diversity organization. She was shot in the streets of Acapulco, Guerrero.

José Ángel Ponce, Mexico, aged 23. She was a trans woman and sex worker who was beaten to death and found in the middle of a vacant lot in Matamoros, Mexico. Her brother confirmed that some elder men were after her, as she had been stealing money from elder clients.

Martín José, Mexico, aged 17. She was a transgender girl who was found death inside a hotel room in Monterrey, Mexico where she was seen for the last time with a young man. Police investigation revealed that her partner is the main suspect of the crime.

Adnan alias Sufaid, Pakistan, aged 17. They were a transgender individual was shot to death in Nowshera District in Pakistan.

Chanda Sharmeeli, Pakistan, aged 30. She was a transwoman who was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan. She had been with a gathering of other trans people discussing what they believed to be a recent under counting of Pakistan's trans community when a gang of armed men began harassing them and eventually shooting Chanda.

Unidentified, Pakistan, age unknown. They were a trans person of about 25 years old. They were found tortured and decapitated in Peshawer, Pakistan. They had been dead for at least a few days prior to being discovered. Their body was refused entry to a local mortuary for fear of “contamination” and a government contractor refused to bury the body.

Amna, Saudi Arabia, aged 35. She was a transgender woman who was tortured and beaten to death with her transgender friend Meeno (below) by Saudi police in Riyad. Clothing and jewellery were also ‘confiscated’ by the police.

Meeno, Saudi Arabia, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who was tortured and beaten to death with her transgender friend Amna (see above).

Joey van Niekerk, South Africa, aged 32. She was married to her wife Anisha (see below) In the final few days of Anisha and Joey van Niekerk's lives, they had no idea they were at the centre of not one, but two plots to have them killed. A heterosexual married couple three other men were on trial at the high court in Pretoria for their alleged role in the 2017 rape and murder of the young couple. The state alleges that the Van Niekerks were repeatedly raped, tortured, shot and their bodies set alight.

Anisha van Niekerk, South Africa, aged 30. She was murdered with her wife Joey – see above.

Sduduzo Buthelezi, South Africa, age unknown. His murderer claimed that Sduduzo had come on to him in a car. He struck and killed Sduduzo and then dumped his body. He was not sentenced for murder because the judge ‘understood’ the murderer’s disgust and panic.

Dom Sowa, United Kingdom, aged 17. He was bullied at school and online having come out aged 14. His body was found in the sea off of Newquay. “Dom was 17 years old, a talented and beautiful young man full of potential," Dom’s parents Pat and Jan said. "He was a gifted singer, artist, baker and a loyal and loving friend, son and brother who would dearly have loved to be here to fulfil his dreams for life.

Scout Shultz, USA, aged 21. They were a non-binary, intersex, student at Georgia Tech who was shot and killed by police after experiencing a mental breakdown on campus. Video was taken of Schultz carrying a small pocket knife while yelling "shoot me!" at police while walking towards them. Upon investigation it was revealed they had left three suicide notes in their dorm room.

Ally Steinfeld, USA, aged 17. Ally was a transgender woman who was killed by a man assisted by two women. The killer told investigators he initially tried to poison Ally, then described how he stabbed Steinfeld in the living room of an accomplice’s mobile home. The two told authorities they helped burn Steinfeld's body after the killer gouged out Ally’s eyes, repeatedly stabbed the teen — including multiple times in the genitals — and bragged about the killing, according to court records.

Chyna Gibson, USA, aged 31. Chyna was a transgender woman was fatally shot outside a strip mall in the 4300 block of Downman Road, New Orleans. A second transgender woman, 25-year-old Ciara McElveen (below), was stabbed to death two days later. Authorities have said they've found no evidence, thus far, linking to two deaths.

Ciara McElveen, USA, aged 25. She was a trans woman who was stabbed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and left on the side of the road. She was transported to University Medical Center where she died.

Sean Ryan Hake, USA, aged 23. He was a transgender man who was shot three times by police and killed in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The police were responding to a domestic call for which Hake had threatened his mother and to cut his own throat. Hake's family has filed a lawsuit alleging the police violated Hake's civil rights

Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, USA, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was found Murdered in her apartment in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is believed to have died at least several days prior

JoJo Striker, USA, aged 23. She was a trans woman who was found shot to death in a garage in Toledo, Ohio. She had suffered one gunshot wound to her chest

Tiara Richmond, also known as Keke Collier, USA, aged 24. Tiara Richmond, also known as Keke Collier, 24, was fatally shot in Chicago on the morning of February 21. A transgender woman of color, she was found dead on the same street as two other transgender women that were killed in 2012.

Jaquarrius Holland, USA, aged 18. She was a trans woman who was shot during a verbal altercation in Monroe, Louisiana.

Chayviss ‘Chay’ Reed, USA, aged 28. Chay was a transgender woman who was known for her dance moves. In the Homestead Job Corps Center, fellow students remember how “Chay” was always showing off her best moves, and even teaching them a thing or two. Reed was fatally shot at the intersection of Northwest 27th Avenue and 93rd Street, Miami. Reed's long-time friend described her as someone who was full of life and beloved by many.

Kenne McFadden, USA, aged 27. She was a trans woman who was found in the San Antonio River. Police believe she was pushed into the river. A high-school friend of McFadden described her to local media as assertive, charismatic and lovable. Police had a person of interest in custody. Due to the media misgendering McFadden, her identity as a trans woman was not corrected in news stories until later.

Kendra Marie Adams AKA Josie Berrios, USA, aged 28. She was a trans woman who was found with burns on her body in a building, that was under construction, in Ithaca, New York

Ava Le'Ray Barrin, USA, aged 17. She was a trans girl who was shot and killed in Athens, Georgia. She was killed by another transgender person she knew after an altercation in a parking lot. She has been remembered as a "social butterfly" and an "amazing girl”.

Ebony Morgan, USA, aged 28. She was a trans woman who was found shot in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

TeeTee Dangerfield, USA, aged 32. She was a transgender woman who was found shot multiple times beside her vehicle in Atlanta, Georgia. She was taken to the hospital and later died of her injuries.

Jaylow McGlory, USA, aged 29. She was a transgender woman who was fatally shot in Alexandria, Louisiana. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) reported that Mcglory was shot multiple times. Police have charged a man with her murder. Multiple social media posts suggest that the two may have been in a relationship leading up to her death, indicating that Mcglory’s death may be a case of intimate partner violence.

Gwynevere River Song, USA, aged 26. They were a person identifying as if they were a person identifying as femandrogyne (feminine androgyne: an androgyne feeling more feminine than masculine). who was shot in Waxahachie, Texas.

Kiwi Herring, USA, aged 30. She was trans woman who was shot by police following an altercation in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kashmire Nazier Redd, USA, aged 28. He was a transgender man who was stabbed to death in Gates, New York.

Derricka Banner, USA, aged 26. She was a trans woman who was shot and killed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, USA, aged 31. She was a transgender woman who was found shot multiple times in a motel room at Oklahoma City's Oxford Inn. Police had received calls of a disturbance at the establishment. The local police and initial news reports misgendered and dead-named her, although she had legally changed her name the year before.

Brandi Seals, USA, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who was found shot to death in Houston, Texas. Seals’ family described her as a “loving person” and a “beautiful person.”
Transgender rights advocate and blogger Monica Roberts reports that on Wednesday morning, Seals’ was found in front of a home under construction. Witnesses were reported hearing several gunshots before her body was discovered.
Police are still investigating but so far have turned up no leads on a suspect. Multiple media outlets and law enforcement have misgendered Seals.

Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond, (AKA Keke Collier), USA aged 24. She was a trans woman who was shot on Chicago's south side by an unknown assailant while sharing a vehicle with them. She was found by police on the ground outside, and rushed to the hospital, where she died

Chyna Doll Dupree (AKA Chyna Gibson), USA, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was shot in New Orleans, by an unknown assailant. She was found by police lying in a parking lot outside a shopping mall. She had been shot several times and died at the scene. Her aunt described her as "a very loving person [who] didn't do nothing to nobody”.

Alphonza Watson, USA, aged 38. She was a trans woman who was shot in the stomach in Baltimore, Maryland. She was transported to Hospital where she died. Her mother described Watson as "the sunshine of our family," a "caring, passionate" person who loved cooking and gardening.

Kenneth Bostick, USA, aged 59. He was a trans person identifying as male who was found with severe injuries on a Manhattan sidewalk, and later died. Few details about Bostick's life have been reported; he may have been homeless at the time of the attack. Early reports also identified him under his previous name.

Sherrell Faulkner, USA, aged 46. She was a trans woman who died from injuries sustained during an attack the previous year, in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was found where she was left after the attack, next to a dumpster. Police are treating the assault as a homicide. No arrests were made at this point

Pepper K, (AKA Phoenix), USA, age unknown. They were a trans person who was killed by another inmate while incarcerated in the Mansfield Correctional Institution. Phoenix was taken to an area hospital and died of their injuries. They had participated in the Black and Pink LGBTQ prisoner online pen pal program.

Stephanie Montez, USA, aged 47. She was a trans woman who was shot multiple times near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Cadance Towns, USA, aged 30. She was a trans woman who was found dead in Macon, Georgia. She was reported missing but found the following day. She was shot and left at the end of a driveway.

Rhiannon Layendecker, USA, aged 51. She was a transgender woman who was Murdered by her 48-year-old wife in their hometown of Englewood, Florida.

Mesha Caldwell, USA, aged 41. She was a trans woman who was found shot to death on a road near Canton, Mississippi.

Tristan Peterson, USA, aged 12. He was a school boy who experienced relentless bullying because he came out. He committed suicide His mother reported the situation 4 times, but the school did nothing.


2018 CE

Lourdes Reinoso, Argentina, age unknown. Lourdes and her 80-year-old great aunt Francisca Ofelia Palacio were stabbed to death by Lourdes' ex-partner on in Rio Nio.

Tucuman Unknown Murdered by stabbing

“Lohane”, Argentina, age unknown. Lohane was a transgender woman who was killed in a brutal crime, motivated by jealousy in the city of Governador Newton Bello, about 290 km from the capital of Maranhão.

Yanelis Rodríguez, Argentina, age unknown. She was murdered because she was a transgender woman.

Julia Ponce, Argentina age unknown. She was murdered in Buenos Aires because she was a transgender woman.

Sol Gómez, Argentina, age unknown. She was murdered in Santa Fe because she was a transgender woman.

Cinthia Moreira, Argentina, age unknown. She was murdered decapitated and dismembered, in Villa Alen, because she was a transgender woman.

Adriana Estefanía Bonetto, Argentina, age unknown. She was murdered by stabbing in San Jose del Rincon, because she was a transgender woman.

Ynina, Argentina, age unknown. She was murdered in Puerto Madryn because she was a transgender woman.

Sonia Akter, Bangladesh, age unknown. She was murdered in Morrelganj because she was a transgender woman.

Veronica Carbajal Pinto, Bolivia, age unknown. She was suffocated in La Paz because she was a transgender woman.

Adri Adely Jurado, Bolivia, age unknown. She was stabbed to death in La Paz because she was a transgender woman.

Everton Alves, Brazil, aged 20. He murdered for being LGBT.

L. de Souza Pereira, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Manaus for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Uberlândia, for being LGBT.

Milena, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Arapiraca, for being LGBT.

Andressa Xoda, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Pauladas E Tiros, for being LGBT.

Eduarda Figueiredo, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in in Porto Seguro, for being LGBT.

Júlia Volp, Brazil, age unknown. They were in Florianópolis for being LGBT.

Jéssica Dimy, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Rio de Janeiro , for being LGBT.

Sabrina, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Uberaba, for being LGBT.

Luany Aquamarine, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Rio de Janeiro , for being LGBT.

Luna Shine, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Viana, for being LGBT.

Marquete F. C. de Lima, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot in Altinho, for being LGBT.

Kebeca G. de Souza Brazil, age unknown. They were shot in Gurupi, , for being LGBT.

Larissa Paiva, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Sao Paulo, for being LGBT.

Rose, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in João Pessoa, for being LGBT.

Lorrany “Lhoane” Oliveira, Brazil, age unknown. They were tortured to death in Santaluz, for being LGBT.

V. O. Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were tortured to death in Uberaba, for being LGBT.

Silvia Gomes Marques, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Belem, for being LGBT.

Fany Diniz, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot in Belem, for being LGBT.

C. Sobral, age unknown. They were murdered in Feira de Santana, for being LGBT.

Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Brasília, for being LGBT.

W. Peixoto, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Piripiri , for being LGBT.

C. Figueiredo, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Recife, for being LGBT.

Carol Alves, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Tangará da Serra, for being LGBT.

Kelly, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Belém, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Concórdia do Pará, for being LGBT.

Júlia de Arruda, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Várzea Grande, for being LGBT.

Rios Dayane Macklarenn, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in São Bernardo do Campo, for being LGBT.

Raquel Cosinele, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Recife, Brazil, for being LGBT.

Samira de Alcantara, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Nossa Senhora do Socorro, for being LGBT.

Natália Ketlyn, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Campos Altos, for being LGBT.

Hemilly Dbx, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Garanhuns, for being LGBT.

Anninha Ferreira Rochee, Brazil, age unknown. They were decapitated and dismembered in Colatina, for being LGBT.

A. da S. Silvério, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Vitíoria de São Antão, for being LGBT.

Lohan, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Vitoria, for being LGBT.

Milonga F. L. Martins, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Pacajus, for being LGBT.

Dominique, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Uberlândia, for being LGBT.

Nayra Winston, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Rio Largo, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Fortaleza, for being LGBT.

Bruna, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Belém, for being LGBT.

Keila, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Salvador, for being LGBT.

K. Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were tortured to death in Manaus, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Joao Pessoa, for being LGBT.

Pérola, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Sao Paulo, for being LGBT.

Bruna Ferrari, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Concórdia do Pará, for being LGBT.

Laysla Oliveira, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Ribeirão Preto, for being LGBT.

Amanda Rios, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in João Pessoa, for being LGBT.

Eduarda, Brazil, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Araras, for being LGBT.

Rayana Ribeiro, Brazil, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in João Pessoa, for being LGBT.

Bia Rocha, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Recife, for being LGBT.

Claudia Oliveira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Fernanda Caetano, Brazil, Unknown, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Lapa, , for being LGBT.

Fernanda “Pit” Dias, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in São Mateus, for being LGBT.

Alessandra da Silva Alves, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Shayene, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Palola, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in João Pessoa, for being LGBT.

Samielly Castro, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in São Paulo, for being LGBT.

Pâmela Tabete, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Craiba, for being LGBT.

Thalita da Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They had their throat cut in Barra do Garças, for being LGBT.

J. Oliveira da Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Vila Velha, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were decapitated and dismembered in Ilha do Governador, for being LGBT.

Bruna Gabriel, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Ananindeua, for being LGBT.

N. Naza, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered , for being LGBT.

Paola Oliveira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Luziânia , for being LGBT.

Alanis Burgo, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered by suffocation in Pelotas, for being LGBT.

Giorginye Dias de Siqueira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Aparecida de Goiânia, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in São Leopoldo, for being LGBT.

Daniela Santos, Brazil, age unknown. They were tortured to death in Ibicaraí, for being LGBT.

Cleide Aládio Zaramarine Neto, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Itaberaí, for being LGBT.

Hilda de Melo Matias, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Barbalha, for being LGBT.

Eduarda Amaro, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Pelotas, for being LGBT.

Elvira Costa Ferreira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Maranguape, for being LGBT.

Andressa Muda, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Macaé, for being LGBT.

Benjamin de Jesus Sousa, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Teresina, for being LGBT.

Angra Alessandra Cupertino, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Feira de Santana, for being LGBT.

Millany Spencer, Brazil, age unknown. They were Beaten and strangled in Nossa Senhora do Socorro, for being LGBT.

Nati da Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Lajeado, for being LGBT.

Nycoly Souza Nardoni Bhals, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Governador Valadares, for being LGBT.

Gabriely Fancciny, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Porto Velho, for being LGBT.

Matheusx Passarelli, Brazil, age unknown. They were burned to death in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Raunna Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Niterói, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Campo Grande, for being LGBT.

Bianca Santos Albuquerque, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Araras, for being LGBT.

Paulinha, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Araras, for being LGBT.

C. Alves, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Vitória da Conquista, for being LGBT.

Myrella Mhell, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Pirapora, for being LGBT.

Pandora, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Santa Rita, for being LGBT.

Beatriz Ribeiro, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Bacabal, for being LGBT.

D.R.C., Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Jundiaí, for being LGBT.

I. Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Itaberaí, for being LGBT.

Patrícia Pereira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Maracanaú, for being LGBT.

Nayra Matos, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Maracanaú, for being LGBT.

Britney Vaz, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Colniza, for being LGBT.

Vitória, Brazil, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Salvador, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Manaus, for being LGBT.

Kamila Roberta, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Florianópolis, for being LGBT.

Fernanda Reichert, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in São Leopoldo, for being LGBT.

Tiffanny Montel, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Boa Vista, for being LGBT.

Agatha Gomes (Bebê), Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Belford Roxo, for being LGBT.

Thalia Costa Barboza, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in São Borja, for being LGBT.

Nikolly Silva, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Cabo Frio, for being LGBT.

Gaby Scheifer, Brazil, age unknown. They were run over by a car in Ponta Grossa, for being LGBT.

Índia da Silva Pellegrine, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Salvador, for being LGBT.

Bruna da Conceição, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Lagarto, for being LGBT.

Carla Croft, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Pacajus, for being LGBT.

Mirela, Brazil, age unknown. They were strangled/hanged in Balneário Camboriú, for being LGBT.

Shirley dos Santos, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Recife, for being LGBT.

Michele Silveira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Itaperuna, for being LGBT.

Fernanda da Biz, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Campo Grande, for being LGBT.

Aisha Albuquerque, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Curitiba, for being LGBT.

Daniela Cicarelli, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Gurupi, for being LGBT.

Lay Neves de Santana, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Camaçari, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Itaperuna Nova Serrana, for being LGBT.

Paola Villefort, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death, for being LGBT.

Daiane Souza, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Porto Alegre, for being LGBT.

Gaby Arantes, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Dudu dos Santos Duarte, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Paraisópolis, for being LGBT.

Lalesca, Brazil, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Salvador, for being LGBT.

Paloma Ferreira, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Fortaleza, for being LGBT.

Paolla “LelÍ” Blayton, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Campos, for being LGBT.

Karlla da Silva Balbino, Brazil, age unknown. They were strangled/hanged in Caratinga, for being LGBT.

T‚nia Lopes, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Florianópolis, for being LGBT.

Renata, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, for being LGBT.

Krispim Souza de Araujo, Mossóro, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead for being LGBT.

D. M. Teixeira , Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Mossóro, for being LGBT.

A. L. da Silva Bezerra, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Mossóro, for being LGBT.

Evelin Ferrari, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Caruaru, for being LGBT.

J. F. de Souza, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Curitiba, for being LGBT.

Sheila dos Santos, Brazil, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Buriticupu, for being LGBT.

Paola dos Reis, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Cuiaba, for being LGBT.

Rayka, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Praia Grande, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Manaus, for being LGBT.

Deia Alves Maciel, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Goiania, for being LGBT.

Maria Luíza, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Sao Paulo, for being LGBT.

Rafaela Sena, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Xique-xique, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Rio de Janeiro, for being LGBT.

Monique Manardi Lee, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Sao Paulo, for being LGBT.

Abya Passos Mantovanny, Brazil, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Cuiaba, for being LGBT.

Kemily, Brazil, age unknown. They were shot dead in Belem, for being LGBT.

J. Oliveira de Araújo, Brazil, age unknown. They were murdered in Martins, for being LGBT.

Nicolly, Brazil, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Lagarto, for being LGBT.

Marielle Franco, Brazil, aged 40. She was a Brazilian politician, feminist, and human rights activist. She used her voice and influence as a politician to speak up for the rights of people around her – especially LGBT+, black people and young women. But in March 2018, Marielle was silenced forever when she was killed in a drive-by shooting. Two former police officers have been arrested over the murder. She is acknowledged as a heroic martyr in the Antinoan Faith.

Paloma, Chile, age unknown. They were shot dead in beaten to death in Santiago, for being LGBT.

Marilyn Cipriany Guzmán, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in Medellín, for being LGBT.

Chelsy/Cristal Grisales Molina, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in La Virginia, for being LGBT.

Silvana Pineda, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in La Dorada, for being LGBT.

J. A. Marín Marín, Columbia, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Soacha, for being LGBT.

Tatiana/Tetris/Muelas, Columbia, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Bogota, for being LGBT.

Alexa Amero Sierra, Columbia, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Bogota, for being LGBT.

Lorena Molina López, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in Montenegro, for being LGBT.

Alejandra Torres Torres, Columbia, age unknown. They were stabbed to death Manizales, for being LGBT.

Abril Natasha Quiñónez, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in Cali, for being LGBT.

Lili Chirinos Carrillo, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in Valledupar, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Columbia, age unknown. They were murdered in Cordova, for being LGBT.

Carol Perez Guerrero, Columbia, age unknown. They were shot dead in Ciudad Bolivar, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Columbia, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Cochabamba, for being LGBT.

Valeria Sandoval, Columbia, age unknown. They were asphyxiated in Cali, for being LGBT.

Blanca, Dominican Republic, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in La Vega, for being LGBT.

Isabel Borja Suárez, Ecuador, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Quevedo, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, El Salvador, age unknown. They were murdered in Departamente de la Paz, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, El Salvador, age unknown. They were murdered in Chalchuapa, El Salvador, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, El Salvador, age unknown. They were stabbed to death Cuscatlan for being LGBT.

D. A. Portillo Jiménez, El Salvador, age unknown. They were stabbed to death

Unknown Name, El Salvador, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in El Salvador, for being LGBT.

Geovanny Romero Ortiz, El Salvador, age unknown. They were murdered in Santa Ana, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, El Salvador, age unknown. They were murdered in Soyopango, for being LGBT.

Lucky Salavuki, Fiji, age unknown. They were stoned to death in Suva, for being LGBT.

Vanessa Campos, France, aged 36. She was a trans woman working as a prostitute who was shot dead in Paris' bois de Boulogne. She was originally from Peru and had been living in Paris for two years. The police initially referred to her as a “male transvestite”.

Flávia Luiza, France, aged 36. She was a Murdered– in Paris, for being LGBT.

Daniel Küblböck, Germany, aged 33. he came to fame on a German TV talent show primarily because he was such an untalented singer that viewers voted for him so they could laugh at him. He never came to terms with his camp-celeb status or with his sexual identity. The German pop singer disappeared from the cruise ship AIDAluna during a cruise from Hamburg to New York in 2018. According to a witness, he had jumped off a deck probably committing suicide. Despite an intense search, he was not found, and the search was abandoned after eighty hours as it was deemed impossible that he could still be alive.... and was declared dead in 2019.

Zak Kostopoulos, Greece, aged 33. Zak was a queer activist and human rights defender in Greece. He died following a violent attack. Zak, also known by his drag stage name ‘Zackie Oh’, was a tireless defender of the rights of LGBTI people and HIV-positive persons. It has been more than a year that Zak was murdered, but his death still has not been brought to justice. Video footage by eye witnesses shows that Zak was brutally beaten up by two men after entering a jewellery shop in Athens. He was lying on the ground seriously injured and unable to move, surrounded by police officers. In the video, police officers are seen to violently attempting to arrest Zak and one officer is seen kicking him. According to the forensic report, Zak died from the multiple injuries he sustained.
Zak’s tragic death devastated his family, friends and the wider human rights community in Greece and beyond. Demonstrations calling for justice for his death have taken place in many countries.

E. G. Sarat, Guatamala, age unknown. They were shot dead in Xela, for being LGBT.

A. Sis, Guatamala, age unknown. They were shot dead in Salama, for being LGBT.

Yessika Ruedas Gómez, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Jalapa, for being LGBT.

Débora Ramos Cordón, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Chiquimula, for being LGBT.

Tyty, Honduras, age unknown. They were murdered in San Pedro Sula, for being LGBT.

Unknown, India, age unknown. They were murdered following a false WhatsApp rumour, that transgender women were kidnapping children for sex trafficking in Hyderabad, four transgender women were attacked by a 20 strong mob, cheered on by hundreds of onlookers. One of the women died.

Deepa, India, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Jalandhar, for being LGBT.

Mohit, India, age unknown. They were beaten to death in New Delhi, for being LGBT.

Devudamma Surya Narayana, India, age unknown. They were burned to death in Anakapalle, for being LGBT.

V. Alphonze, India, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Madurai, for being LGBT.

Chanchal, India, age unknown. They were shot dead in Aashiana, for being LGBT.

Manju, India, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Khajrana, for being LGBT.

Chandraiah, India, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Hyderabad, for being LGBT.

Hamoudi al-Mutairi, Iraq, aged 14. They were murdered, for being LGBT.

Ximena Garcia, Italy, age unknown. They were murdered in Nemi, for being LGBT.

Rafaella Rotocalco, Italy, age unknown. They were murdered in Rome, for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Italy, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in San Giorgio , for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Malaysia, aged 32. According to the post-mortem report, she suffered a fractured skull and bleeding in the brain, and had 32 groups of injuries inflicted upon her, for being LGBT.

Gretchen Alina Lara García, Mexico, age unknown. They were tortured and suffocated in Nuevo Leon, for being LGBT.

Sheila, Mexico, aged unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex-worker, she was shot in the streets of Tepic.

Yoselyn, Mexico, aged unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker, she was found beheaded inside the room of a short stay motel in Alamo, Veracruz.

Yamileth Quintero, Mexico, aged unknown. She was a a transgender woman and beauty queen she was shot in Culiacan after an encounter with a man she had met online.

Nataly Briyth Sánchez, Mexico, aged unknown. She was a transgender woman murdered during a sexual encounter as a sex worker in Tapachula.

Katty, Mexico, aged unknown. She was shot by an unknown man at a nightclub in Yautepec de Zaragoza for being LGBT+.

Sheila, Mexico, aged unknown. She was shot in Nayarit, Mexico for being LGBT+.

Chanel, Mexico, aged 45. She was shot in the streets of Toluca for being LGBT+.

Alaska Contreras Ponce, Mexico, aged 25. She was a transgender beauty queen and sex worker. Found dead with her neck sliced by barbed wire after gruesome torture in Martinze de la Torre.

Juan C. M. , Mexico, aged 24. She was a transgender woman and local taxi driver who was found shot dead in Santa Maria Atzompa.

Samuel Santolli, Mexico, aged unknown. They were a transgender person and sex worker; they were stabbed to death by her lover in Tapachula.

Diego Armando Sanchez Medina, Mexico, aged 32, They were a transgender person and and hairdresser, they were shot 28 times by armed men in Guadalajara.

Kendrika Itzel D Espino, Mexico, aged unknown. They were murdered in Chihuahua for being LGBT+.

Unknown Names, Mexico, ages Unknown. One of four LGBT+ people murdered on one date in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Sandra, Mexico, aged 45. She was beaten to death in Nuevo Leon for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Estado de Mexico for being LGBT+.

G. Carrera, Mexico, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Tamaulipas for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They had their throat cut in Veracruz, Mexico for being LGBT+.

Jessica González, Mexico, age unknown. She was murdered in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Paola Carranco, Mexico, age unknown. She was shot dead in Ciudad De Mexico for being LGBT+.

Brigith, Mexico, age unknown. She was shot dead in Quintara Roo for being LGBT+.

C. Antuan, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Guanajuato for being LGBT+.

Unknown Names, Mexico, ages unknown. Four LGBT+ people were murdered for being LGBT+ on one date by gun in Ciudad Victoria.

Samantha, Mexico, age unknown. She was murdered in Guerrero for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were murdered in Sinaloa for being LGBT+.

Charly, Mexico, age unknown. They were decapitated and dismembered in Puebla for being LGBT+.

Yoselyn, Mexico, age unknown. She was murdered in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were tortured and strangled Nuevo Leon for being LGBT+.

Brisa, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Puebla for being LGBT+.

A. , age unknown. They were stoned to death in Jalisco for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Guerrero for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were murdered by suffocation in Nuevo Leon for being LGBT+.

Yamileth Quintero, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Sinaloa for being LGBT+.

Maritza Harrera, Mexico, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Guerrero for being LGBT+.

S. Antolli, Mexico, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Chiapas for being LGBT+.

J. Martínez Cepeda, Mexico, age unknown. They were asphyxiated and hit by a rock in Coahuila for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Michoacan for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were murdered in Colima for being LGBT+ for being LGBT+.

Nataly Briyith Sánchez, Mexico, age unknown. She was murdered in Chiapas for being LGBT+.

Alexa GutiÈrrez, Mexico, age unknown. She was murdered in Aguascalientes for being LGBT+.

Unknown Names, Mexico, ages unknown. Six LGBT+ people were murdered cases, on this date, in Chiapas. No details recorded about them.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They murdered in Mexico for being LGBT+.

Estado de Mexico, Mexico, age unknown. They murdered in Mexico for being LGBT+.

Chanel, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Estado de Mexico for being LGBT+.

L. M. Cocom Guzmán, Mexico, age unknown. They were murdered by strangulation in Yucatan for being LGBT+.

Katy, Mexico, age unknown. They were shot dead in Morelos for being LGBT+.

Alexa Altamirano Martínez, Mexico, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Guanajuato for being LGBT+.

Alaska Contreras Ponce, Mexico, age unknown. They were tortured to death in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Linda, Mexico, age unknown. They were suffocated in Estado de Mexico for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Guanajuato for being LGBT+.

M.R.M. , Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Quintana Roo for being LGBT+.

J. C. M., Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Oaxaca for being LGBT+.

Unknown Name, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Guerrero for being LGBT+.

Jhoana Hernández, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were stabbed to death in Veracruz for being LGBT+.

Ana Corina Burgos, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Ciudad de Mexico for being LGBT+.

Azuani Díaz García, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Chilapa for being LGBT+.

Dayana Letran, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in Acayucan for being LGBT+.

Paulina Domínguez Hernández, Mexico, age unknown. They were they were shot dead in in Cotzacoalco for being LGBT+.

Zena Campbell, New Zealand, aged 21. She was a transgender woman who was found dead in her car in the Wellington suburb of Aro Valley. She had been at a party with her partner the night before. A fight broke out at the party that saw Campbell hit in the face with a bottle, ending up with a cut and a fracture to her nose. She was ejected from the party and left with her partner in the early hours of the morning. They made their way to Campbell's car, where her partner said they eventually fell asleep. Woods was the last person to see his girlfriend alive. He woke in the morning with her dead, slumped across his chest. An autopsy revealed Campbell's hyoid bone had been broken. The hyoid – a small bone in the throat – is difficult to break by any means other than strangulation. However, her boyfriend’s DNA was not found on her throat. He was acquitted.

Unknown name, Pakistan, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who died after being attacked by 4 men when she resisted sexual assault in the city of Sahiwal. The Times of India reported that she fought back, so was set alight by the men. She suffered burns on 80 percent of her body and died while being transported to hospital. No one claimed her body.

Spogmai, Pakistan, age unknown. She was shot dead in Peshawar for being LGBT.

Chutki, Pakistan, age unknown. She was shot dead in Peshawar for being LGBT.

Sheena, Pakistan, age unknown. She was shot dead in Swabi for being LGBT.

Muni, Pakistan, age unknown. She was shot dead in Kotkay for being LGBT.

Sania, Pakistan, age unknown. She was shot dead in Hafizabad for being LGBT.

Nasir Naso, Pakistan, age unknown. She was murdered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Pakistan, age unknown. They were burned to death in Sahiwal for being LGBT.

Ada Mía Naomi Gomez Rivas, Paraguay, age unknown. She was stabbed to death in Piribebuy for being LGBT.

Nicol Ortellado Ferreira, Paraguay, age unknown. She was stabbed to death in Puerto Oblidago for being LGBT.

J. E. Ruidíaz Fernández, Peru, age unknown. They were shot dead in Lima for being LGBT.

Yamilet, Peru, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Iquitos for being LGBT.

Unknown Name, Philippines age unknown. They were murdered in Pasay City for being LGBT.

Ousi Kagiso, South Africa, age unknown. They were strangled/hanged in Rustenburg for being LGBT.

Gugu Modise, South Africa, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Ventersdorp for being LGBT.

Eli, Spain, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Valladolid for being LGBT.

Keon Alister Patterson, Trinidad and Tobago, age unknown. They were shot dead in St. Clair for being LGBT.

I. Y., Turkey, age unknown. They were shot dead in Zonguldak for being LGBT.

Kader Ataman, Turkey, age unknown. They were shot dead in Ayvalik Sarimsakli for being LGBT.

Kristina, Turkey, age unknown. They were shot dead in Beyoglu for being LGBT.

Nefes, Turkey, age unknown. They were strangled/hanged in Ankara

Simge Avci, Turkey, age unknown. They were shot dead in Samsun for being LGBT.

Begüm, Turkey, age unknown. They were burned to death in Bursa for being LGBT.

Esra Ates, Turkey, age unknown. They were stabbed to death in Beyoglu for being LGBT.

Naomi Hersi, United Kingdom, aged 36. She was a transgender woman found stabbed to death at Heathrow Palace in London. A 24-year-old from Hounslow, England was charged with murder. A 17-year-old girl was released on bail after being charged with assisting an offender

Zakaria “Z” Fry, USA, age unknown. They were murdered by blunt force trauma in Albuquerque for being LGBT.

Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, USA, age unknown. They were stabbed and bludgeoned in North Adams for being LGBT.

Sasha Garden, USA, age unknown. They were murdered in Orlando, Florida for being LGBT.

Anthony Avalos, USA, aged 10. He was murdered by his parents because they suspected he was gay.

Blaze Bernstein, USA, aged 19. He was a University of Pennsylvania sophomore. Blaze was found dead in a park in Orange County, California, eight days after having been reported missing. He had been stabbed twenty times. Two days later one of Bernstein's former high school classmates, and a member of neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen, Division, was arrested and charged with murdering Blaze. As Bernstein was both openly gay and Jewish, authorities declared that Bernstein was a victim of a hate crime.

Curtis Lawson, USA, aged 24. He was driven to suicide for being LGBT.

Kerrice Lewis, USA, aged 23, She was a lesbian woman who shot and then burned alive in the trunk of her car.

Sasha Garden, USA, aged 27. She was a transgender woman who was found murdered in Orlando.

Diamond Stephens, USA aged 39. She was a transwoman who was shot to death in Meridian, Mississippi.

Celine DeVonne Walker, USA, aged 36. She was a transwoman who was shot to death in Jacksonville, Florida. Her family and friends publicly shared their disgust toward Jacksonville Sheriff's Department and the Florida Sun Times-Union misgendering her

Keisha “Pokey” Wells, USA, aged 54. She was a transgender woman who died in a Cleveland, Ohio, parking lot due to a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Viccky Gutierrez, USA, aged 33. She was a transwoman who died after being stabbed and her apartment, in Los Angeles, was set on fire while she and her dog were trapped inside

Tonya Harvey, USA, aged 35, She was a transwoman who was shot to death in Buffalo, New York.

Phylicia Mitchell, USA, aged 45. She was a transwoman who was shot in the chest around outside her home on West 112th Street near Detroit Avenue, in the Cleveland's Edgewater neighbourhood

Zakaria Fry, USA, aged 28. She was a transwoman who went missing in New Mexico. Her body was later found 40 miles outside of Albuquerque in Stanley, New Mexico. A rancher found one body in a trash bin along the road, and another body was recovered about two miles away. Police confirmed them to be Fry and her roommate Eugene Ray.

Amia Tyrae Berryman, USA, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who suffered multiple fatal gunshot wounds outside of a motel in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Sasha Wall, USA, aged 29. She was a transgender woman whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds and slumped over her car's steering wheel in Chicago.

Carla Patricia Flores-Pavon, USA, aged 18. She was a transgender woman who was strangled to death in her Dallas apartment .

Nino Fortson, USA, aged 36. He was a transgender man who was fatally shot multiple times during an argument in Atlanta, Georgia.

Antash’a Devine Sherrington English, USA, aged 38. She was a transgender woman who was killed by gun in Jacksonville, Florida .

Gigi Pierce, USA, aged 28. She was a transgender woman who was fatally shot in Portland, Oregon.

Cathalina Christina James, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who was shot dead in Jacksonville, Florida.

Dejanay Stanton, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who was shot to death early on the south side of Chicago, Illinois.

Vontashia Bell, USA, 18. She was a transgender woman who suffered a fatal gunshot wound in Shreveport, Louisiana .

Shantee Tucker, USA, aged 30. She was a transgender woman who was shot by someone firing from a pickup truck in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Londonn Moore, USA, aged 20. She was a transgender woman of Laredo, Texas who was shot in North Port, Port Charlotte, Florida

Nikki Enriquez, USA, aged 28. She was a transgender woman found dead near Interstate 35 in Texas

Jamel Myles, USA. aged 9. He had come out to his mother but was bullied at school and took his own life. He is acknowledged as a Sorrowful Gay Martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, USA, aged 42. She was a transgender woman who was found dead in her home in North Adams, Massachusetts. She was a trans beauty pageant organizer. According to reports her husband turned himself in admitting to killing his wife

Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender asylum seeker from Honduras. She was being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Mexico operated by the second-largest private prison company in the United States, CoreCivic. According to observations of other detainees who were with her, she had severe diarrhoea and vomiting episodes which persisted over multiple days with no medical evaluation or treatment, until she was gravely ill - she remained critically ill until her death.

Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier, USA, aged 31. She was a transgender woman who was found dead with stab wounds in Chicago, Illinois

Hope Verbeeck, USA, aged 17. She was a pre-Trans woman who felt pressurised, by society, into suicide. After leaving a heart-breaking suicide note for her mother to find. Her tragic death took everyone who knew her by surprise. The 17-year-old was precocious and intelligent, a theater lover and a straight-A student in high school. She was going to graduate and was already accepted to several colleges. Her letter read: ““I could no longer live my life as a lie,” she continued. “I’m so sorry I lied to you. I was losing hope in the world and could not see my way out of the wrong body, so I decided it was time for my life to end. Please forgive me for any sins I committed.”

Alunte Davis, Timothy Blancher, and Paris Cameron, USA, all aged under 22. Aluntes and Timothy were gay men, Paris was a transgender woman. They were murdered by an 18-year-old shooter at a house party in Detroit, Michigan.

Kimberlys Ochoa, Venezuela, age unknown. They were beaten to death in Lara.

Vicky Julieth Alvarado, Venezuela, aged 22. Vicky had transitioned at 17, She.was beaten and stabbed with a broken bottle in Moran. According to witnesses, she met some kids who were asking for her phone number and wanted to see her dance.A person saw how Vicky was doing a “sex job” with another man who suddenly got upset and they started struggling. The witness described how he took a bottle, broke it and began to cut Vicky.

Malvina Paiva, Venezuela, aged 23. Malvina was shot in the face from a passing jeep as she was walking. She died at the scene in the Libertador Municipality of Caracas

China Colón, Venezuala, age unknown. She was shot dead in Naguanagua for being LGBT.

Rosada Durán Romero, Venezuala, age unknown. She was shot dead in Lara for being LGBT.

Carol Pérez Guerrero, Venezuala, age unknown. She was shot dead in in Bolivar.

2019 CE

Mhelody Polan Bruno, Australia, aged 25. She was a Philippina transgender woman who was killed in the regional Australian city of Wagga Wagga. Mhelody had been vacationing in Australia for 2 months and was due to return home one week after she was killed. A 31-year-old man was arrested, charged with manslaughter, and released on bail.

Quelly da Silva, Brazil, aged 35. She was a transgender woman whose murderer ripped her chest open and pulled out her heart. The deranged killer then wrapped her heart in cloth and took it back to his home. He covered the wound on her body with an image of a Catholic saint.

Yuri Ferreira also known as Yuri Piettro, Brazil, aged 23. He was one of the organizers of the Bangu LGBT Parade, He also worked as a dance teacher and sold snacks in front of his house. Piettro was shot in the back during a Military Police operation in the Vila Aliança community in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. He died in hospital after weeks in the ICU. According to information from the Rio Gay Life website, friends of the victim said that policemen arrived shooting and one of the bullets fired hit Yuri when he was already close to home. According to O Globo, the police even suspected that the young man was a criminal and wanted to take him but were prevented by the boy's family.

Leo Antonio Michels Ostrovski, Brazil, aged 34. He was shot dead in Curitiba, Brazil. Leo was a well-known activist involved in the LGBTQ+ cause and was one of the National Alliance’s key lobbyists working with the corporate sector. He founded some working groups in the capital of Parana, to help companies to work together to promote safe and inclusive workplaces where everyone can fully realize their potential. He is acknowledged as a heroic martyr in the Antinoan faith.

Julie Berman, Canada, aged 51. She was a transgender woman who had for years exerted energy in raising awareness of the rocketing rates of anti-trans violence across the city. She lit candles and delivered potent and inspirational speeches at Transgender Day of Remembrance vigils, loved ones and colleagues said. She was killed in a downtown boarding home in Toronto. suffered from head injuries. A local man was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, Chile, aged 23. She was a “butch” Lesbian killed by repeated blows to the back of her head. Her body had numerous open wounds and bruising. Her hands had been tied behind her back. Her wallet, money intact, was still in the pocket of her trousers. Nicole's killer had not wanted to rob her.

Unknown, Chile, age unknown. She was also described as a “butch” Lesbian. She was murdered and referred to, in passing, in the report about Nicole Bahamondes above.

Unknown, Chile, age unknown. She was also described as a “butch” Lesbian. She was also murdered and referred to, in passing, in the report about Nicole Bahamondes above.

Lolita, El Salvador age unknown. She was a transgender woman, who was killed with a machete.

Camila Diaz Cordova, El Salvador aged 29. She was a transgender woman who had migrated to the U.S. because of threats that she had received, but failed to get asylum in the U.S. She was deported because they didn’t believe her,” stated Aislinn Odaly’s, an LGBTQ activist. On returning to El Salvador, Camila was reported missing. She was found on the Carretera de Oro highway near the country’s capital San Salvador. She was admitted to hospital but passed away due to her injuries. Investigators have not classified the murder as a hate crime.

Avinshu Patel known as Avi, India, aged 19. He was bullied into drowning himself in Chennai. The day before he wrote a Facebook post detailing homophobic abuse he suffered.”Everyone knows I’m a boy, but the way I walk, think, feel, talk…it’s like a girl. People living in India don’t like this” he wrote.

Unnamed, India, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. She was traveling from town to town in order to beg for money. When she passed through the town of Nagrakata, she found that people were already alarmed at the possible presence of a child kidnapper in their midst. Several children had already been abducted, according to local sources. The town formed a vigilante gang to question people that weren’t from the town that they found in the area. When the mob questioned the victim, someone from behind her shouted that she was the kidnapper and people started hitting her. She tried to run away, and they started throwing stones. “[She] wasn’t just beaten to death,” said a witness who didn’t want to be named. “[Her] body was mutilated beyond recovery. Huge stones were thrown at [her] face. Even small children were seen throwing stones. Don’t know from where these people got such guts.” Police arrived to find the victim bleeding profusely.

Unnamed, Iran, aged 31. The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charges related to violations of Iran’s anti-gay laws, according to the state-controlled Iranian Students’ News Agency ISNA. The unidentified man was hanged in the southwestern city of Kazeroon based on criminal violations of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual intercourse between two men, as well as kidnapping charges, according to ISNA). Iran’s radical sharia law system prescribes the death penalty for gay sex.

Óscar Cazorla, Mexico, aged 62. He was found in a pool of blood in Juchitán de Zaragoza. He was one of the founders of one of the most popular celebrations of sexual diversity. Its name translates roughly to “The Authentic Intrepid Seekers of Danger.” He self-identified as a muxe, which in the indigenous Zapotec culture is seen as a “third gender,” mixing masculine and feminine qualities in ancestral roles.

Renata Spence aka J.G.M, Mexicoo, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker. She was seen coming out of a local pub with an unknown man in Tepeji del Rio. The body was then found in the midst of a highway.

Unknown, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was beheaded in a drug related crime in Mexico City. The body was found covered with sheets. An elderly gardener was arrested and blamed for the crime.

Jony S.S, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was beaten to death in Coatzintla. A neighbour found the body when he saw the door open.

"Carly", also known as Carlos VG, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was stabbed to death by a group of people in the downtown of Oaxaca.

La Becky, Mexico, aged 52 Murdered – she was a transgender woman who owned the local gay bar La Esquina del Chacal. She was killed in the “Minatitlán shooting”. Three armed men broke into a family gathering and murdered 14 people, including La Becky.

Jesusa Fidel Ventura Reyes aka Chucha, Mexico, aged 25. She was a transgender woman who was killed in the State of Veracruz. She went missing and her family contacted local police 24 hours after her disappearance. Local authorities found her severed head in a cooler in front of the town hall. Her body was found discarded in a street elsewhere in the city. Witnesses report seeing a group of armed men leaving the cooler outside the town hall. Reyes' family identified her and claimed her body.

Brayan Sánchez Zárate aka Britany, Mexico, aged 20. She was a transgender woman who was killed in the city of Misantla in Veracruz. She was shot by two men on the city's local Football field. Sánchez Zárate had been previously crowned "Gay Princess 2019" on Misantla's annual LGBT carnival.

Unknown, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was killed when leaving a local pub in Acapulco. According to some witnesses, two men fired at her and then left riding a motorcycle.

Ana Paula, Mexico, age unknown. She was a transgender woman and sex worker who was killed with a hammer in Jiutepec. A local worker was arrested after some neighbours informed the police that the attack had taken place.

Unknown, Nigeria, age unknown. He was a gay man beaten to death in the street. His boyfriend Efe escaped and sought refuge in Germany. The campaigning organisation All Out is campaigning to stop Efe being deported back to Nigeria and certain death.

Maya Akbar, Pakistan, aged 19. She was a transgender woman who sought protection from her father who wanted her dead to restore family ‘honour’. He gave written assurances to the Police that she would be safe at home. He shot her the next day.

Unknown, Pakistan, age unknown. A serial killer murdered 3 unnamed gay men he met online. He had been active on the gay scene but claimed he killed gay men to warn of their negative impact on society. Police say the victims were a middle-aged retired army Major and two other men, both in their twenties. All three were found with their necks broken and had been sedated

Unknown, Pakistan, age unknown. Murdered – As above.

Unknown, Pakistan, age unknown. Murdered – As above

Milo Mazurkiewicz, Poland, age unknown. Milo was a transperson who committed suicide by jumping from a bridge in Warsaw. On their Facebook page they wrote “‘I’m fed up being treated like a piece of shit.’ They then added: ‘I’m fed up with people (psychologists, doctors, therapists) telling me I can’t be who I am because I don’t look like that. Treating me as if it was all in my head and telling me I need papers proving it caring more about how I dress than how I feel”. Friends tied a rainbow flag to the bridge, but thugs fought with them and tore the flag down.

Kevin Fret, Puerto Rico, aged 24. He was a rapper and outspoken advocate for the LGBT community - described as Latin Trap music's first openly gay artist. he was shot at eight times while riding a motorbike in the street in San Juan. He was hit in the head and hip.

Yelena Grigoryeva, Russia, aged 41. She was a LGBT activist. She was found murdered, near her apartment. The Moscow Times reported: ‘The activist had regularly received death threats and reported them to the police, who did nothing to protect her before she was murdered. Yelena had been listed on the homophobic ‘Saw’ website which has long threatened LGBT activists across the country.” Yelena had been stabbed at least eight times.

Kira (the name was changed in news), Russia, aged 26. She was a was a transwoman from Kursk, killed and dismembered by her boyfriend after he learned she was a transwoman. He cut the flesh from her body, evaporated the remains of the body in the oven, flushed pieces of the body into the toilet. He sawed her bones and put them in plastic bags. After that he threw them into the trash can, standing at the house. He covered her head and spine with salt, so as not to emit a cadaverous smell, wrapped it in rags and put it all on his balcony.

Nina Surgutskaya, Russia, aged 25. She was a was a transwoman who was killed by her medic boyfriend in Kursk, eastern Russia.

Alex Milkovich, Russia, aged 19. He was a transgender man, a student of the pharmaceutical academy, who was killed in Russian town Nytva. He went missing and his body was found a few days later. The suspected murderer was arrested.

Unknowns, Saudi Arabia, various ages. 37 men were executed in April 2019 on a variety of charges – 5 of the executions were for being Gay.

Adam Seef, South Africa, aged 19. He was a Gay man who committed suicide and left a tragic letter. “According to the South African Jewish Report, Seef was a first-year medical student at the University of the Witwatersrand. His friends and family describe Seef as a perfectionist who struggled with his mental health”.

Cameron Haswell, United Kingdom aged 18. He hung himself in a park, in Surrey. After his funeral, Police revealed that he had been discovered wearing a women’s jump suit. His family believe that he was struggling with his gender identity as more women’s clothes were found hidden in his bedroom.

Nigel Shelby, USA, aged 15. He killed himself after homophobic bullying in Huntsville, Alabama.

Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, USA, aged 26. Investigators believe that Trenton’s boyfriend and a British man met online in 2017 and came up with a plan to kill people that Trenton’s boyfriend would choose. He paid for the British man’s plane ticket to the U.S. In the early hours of the morning Trenton was stabbed 70 times while his boyfriend filmed the killing.

Dana Martin, USA, aged 31. She was a trans woman who was found shot to death in her vehicle in a roadside ditch in Montgomery, Alabama. She was shot while driving and police continue to investigate but have no leads.

Muhlaysia Booker, USA, aged 23. She was a transgender woman who was attacked in a Dallas parking lot in April 2019. Cellphone camera footage of the episode made US headlines, and the police investigated it as a possible hate crime. A month later, the Dallas Police Department announced that Muhlaysia had been shot and killed.

Ellie Marie Washstock, USA, aged 38. They were a transfeminine person who identified as both man and a woman. They were found dead by their teenage son at 8 a.m. on Thursday, January 31 at their World Golf Village condominium in St. Augustine, Florida. It was ruled a homicide according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. No suspect has been identified.

Chanel Scurlock, USA, aged 23. She was a trans woman who was found shot dead in Lumberton, North Carolina. Friends and activists confirmed that Scurlock identified as a trans woman, however she had been misgendered and deadnamed by local media, and even referred to as a gay man by her mother in local reports. Police arrested a suspect on charges of first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the killing of Chanel.

Michelle "Tamika" Washington (Michelle Simone on social media), USA, aged 40. She was a transgender woman who was found with gunshot wounds to the head, body, and buttocks. She died in a hospital in Philadelphia.

Chynal Lindsey, USA, aged 26. She was a transgender woman who was found shot in White Rock Lake, Dallas. The city was celebrating their annual Pride festival on the same weekend. The Dallas police arrested a suspect, who has been charged with the murder of Chynal

Nino Fortson (also known as Nino Starr and Nino Blahnik), USA, aged 36. They were a genderqueer person who was a member of Atlanta’s LGBTQ ballroom scene and also went by other names. Fortson got into a verbal altercation with two men and two women. Fortson pulled a gun and fired it into the air to stop the attack, but they were later shot several times and died in hospital.

Jazzaline Ware, USA, aged unknown. She was a transgender woman who was found dead in her apartment in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially thought to be a suicide, police currently regard the case as homicide for reasons not made public.

Ashanti Carmon, USA, aged 27. She was a transgender woman who was shot and killed in Prince George's County, Maryland. The day of her death, the eve of International Transgender Day of Visibility, made her murder poignant for the international trans community. Her history of survival sex, which she did since homeless at age 16, and the location of her murder, popular sex worker and transgender locale Eastern Avenue, makes her death a likely instance of violence against sex workers. There are currently no leads on the shooting.

Ronald Trey Peters, USA, aged 28. Ronald was a social worker in Decatur, Georgia. He died when gunmen held Peters up at gunpoint for his bag and then shot him multiple times. A witness said one of the attackers told Peters, “Give me your bag, faggot.”

Johana Medina Leon, USA, aged 25. She was a transgender woman who came to the U.S. from El Salvador, waiting three months in Juarez, Mexico, before being allowed in the U.S. She was seeking asylum to escape violence as a transgender woman. She started getting sick while in custody but was denied medication. She was taken to a hospital where she became “extremely ill and unconscious” and was pronounced dead.

Claire Legato, USA, aged 21. She was a transgender woman was shot in the head on after an argument broke out between her mother and the suspect in Cleveland, Ohio. She was taken to a local hospital where she died from her injuries. The suspect was charged by the authorities with murder.

Marquis “Kiki” Fantroy, USA, aged 21. She was a transgender woman was shot and killed in southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida near an abandoned house. Miami Police claim the murder resulted from an argument and not a transgender hate crime, however Fantroy's mother, whom she lived with, and others who knew her disagree. Fantroy was reportedly headed home from a party with a group when a teenage male, 17, approached her and propositioned her for sex, which she declined, after which he began shooting at another member of the group. Fantroy ran, pursued by the young man, who then opened fire and murdered her. On 5 August, the suspect was arrested in connection with an unrelated case and admitted to the murder in police custody. He has been charged with murder (second degree) and attempted murder.

Denali Berries Stuckey, USA, aged 29. She was a transgender woman who was shot, killed and left on the side of the road in North Charleston, South Carolina. The deputy coroner initially identified Stuckey by her deadname and incorrectly identified her as male. On 31 July, Elizabeth Warren (United States Senator from Massachusetts) spoke out about her death along with the death of Kiki Fantroy (see above).

Paris Cameron, USA, aged 20. She was a transgender woman who was shot in Detroit, Michigan on Memorial Day weekend along with two cisgender individuals. She was taken in critical condition to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Eyewitnesses report gunshots ringing out after arguing being heard from the house all the victims were in, after which numerous people fled onto the street. Police have arrested a suspect in relation to the murder.

Chanel Scurlock, USA, aged 23. She was a transgender woman who was found shot and killed in Lumberton, North Carolina by Robeson County sheriff's deputies. Her family indicated she had planned to meet up with the owner of a Facebook page with media content of her. Friends and activists confirmed that Scurlock identified as a trans woman, however she had been misgendered and deadnamed by local media, and even referred to as a gay man by her mother in local reports. The police arrested a suspect on charges of first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Brooklyn Lindsey, USA, aged 32. She was a transgender woman who was found shot and killed in front of an abandoned building in Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Police Department announced Lindsey had received multiple gunshots and facial trauma. Neighbours reportedly heard an argument and gunshots around 2:30 a.m. at the abandoned residence at the 600 block of Spruce Avenue. Kris Wade of the local Justice Project reported that Lindsey had been hospitalized after a brutal beating just weeks before her death. CNN reported Lindsey's death took place near where Tamara Dominguez (see above) was murdered in 2015. On 22 July a felon, was arrested and indicted on Lindsey's murder after being stopped on unrelated domestic violence and armed robbery charges.

Zoe Spears, USA, aged 23. She was a transgender woman who was shot and killed in Fairmount Heights, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. The murder occurred just a few blocks from where, earlier in March 2019, Ashanti Carmon was murdered (see above). Prince George's County Police Major said Carmon and Spears knew each other and were part of a close group of sex workers in the area. Two weeks after her death, police arrested a suspect indicted on murder charges (first degree) for the killing.

Tracy Single (née Williams), USA, aged 22. She was a transgender woman who was found dead in west Houston, Texas. Single's body was discovered in a convenience store parking lot at 11000 Katy Freeway and moved to a morgue where she laid unidentified for ten days. The victim's homelessness delayed the identification process. Her identity was revealed at a town hall meeting organized by local activist Dee Dee Watters, after which it was made public and published by TransGriot. Single's boyfriend was charged with her murder. Friends of the victim claim she attempted to dissolve the relationship just prior to her murder prompting the possible classification of her murder as domestic homicide.

Various, USA, various ages. In July 2019 the US Human Rights Campaign (HRC) reported that “…at least 12 trans women (including Denali Berries Stuckley) have been murdered in the U.S. this year alone”. As we have details of 4 innocent martyrs above, we have only added 8 to the overall figure.

Pebbles Ladime Doe, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman who was found shot and killed in Allendale County, South Carolina. Doe was discovered by a passer-by slumped over her car steering wheel on a driveway in the vicinity of Concord Church and Barnwell roads. Her killing follows two weeks after of the murder of Denali Stuckey (see above), a fellow trans woman from South Carolina.

Brian Anderson, USA, aged 31. He was a gay man who joined a friend in meeting a man via Grindr. The man got into their car, threatened to rob them and then shot and killed Anderson. In court it transpired that the killer had shot and injured a Gay man in a similar incident earlier on the month and had a string of similar crimes in the past.

Jordan Cofer (Megan Betts), USA, age unknown. During the Dayton, Ohio massacre in August 2019, the killer first killed his sibling. They were identified as female, by the Police, but his friends said that his preferred name was Jordan Cofer and that he used he/him pronouns. There is no indication that Cofer’s gender identity had any role in his death during a rampage that left nine people dead and 27 wounded. His friends say they don’t believe he was out to his brother. However, there is evidence that the killer had been researching violent ideologies which are typically Fascist. So, it is likely the killer shot his trans brother because of bigotry.

Bailey Reeves, USA, aged 17. She was a transgender woman was who suffered multiple gunshots to the chest and was killed as she left a party in Baltimore.

Elisha Chanel Stanley, USA, aged 46. She was a transgender woman who was found dead by homicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the 1000 block of Penn Avenue, which is the Westin Hotel. No other details about death have been released by officials, however Pittsburgh Police have stated they were investigating. Local activists and friends of the victim alleged investigation by officials and coverage of media was sparse due to the victim's transgender status. Stanley's funeral was held three days afterwards.

Itali Marlowe, USA, aged 29. She was a transgender woman who was killed following a shooting in southwest Houston, Texas. As reported by Houston Police, officers responded to a shooting at 15829 Ridgeroe Lane, during which Marlowe was found lying on the driveway having been shot multiple times. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead. The suspect in the shooting has been indicted for Marlowe's murder, but remains at large and is currently wanted by police. He had been reportedly living with Marlowe. For the year of 2019.

Various, USA, various ages. On the Sept 5th 2019, the LGBTQNation website reported that Bailey Reeves (above) was the 17th transgender person known to have been murdered in 2019. We have already recorded 6 above, so we have added 11 more to the overall total.

Bee Love Slater, USA, aged 23. She was a transgender woman. Police found her body “burned beyond recognition” in her car — just days before her 24th birthday. It took the police two days to finally identify her charred remains.

Channing Smith, USA, aged 16. He was a junior at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tennessee. He killed himself after explicit chat messages between him and another boy were reposted by a classmate on Instagram and Snapchat, outing Smith as being sexually attracted to other boys.

Brianna “BB” Hill also known as Breonna Be’Be Hill, USA, aged 30. She was a trans woman, former member of the House of Dior and a model and regularly vlogged her day-to-day life. Kansas City Police Department officials confirmed to local media that a man is in custody after fatally shooting Hill and then waiting for officers to arrive to the scene.

Yahira Nesby, USA, aged 33. She was a trans woman who was shot to death in a building in Brooklyn, N.Y. She had been wounded in the chest and leg and was dead by the time police arrived. A man who injured his foot after jumping out of a second-floor window in the building has been arrested. He has been hospitalized, and charges are pending.

Nikki Kuhnhausen, USA, aged 17. She was a trans teen, who was strangled to death with her own hair in Vancouver, Washington. Her body was dumped on Larch Mountain where hikers found her skull.

Juan ‘Cuba’ Fresnada, USA, aged 60. He was attacked alongside his husband Byron Caceres as they left a Bronx McDonald’s restaurant. The attackers stole just $1 from him.In disturbing video footage, Fresnada can be seen being violently thrown to the ground where he was stamped on repeatedly. Shockingly, cars and buses can be seen driving past the assault – and nobody stopped to help him.

Kevin Bacon, USA, aged 25. He was a hairstylist and college student, who went missing after Christmas Eve after telling his roommate he was meeting someone on Grinder. Police found his body in his killer’s Michigan home on December 28, his corpse mutilated, and parts of his body had been eaten.

In November 2019 the Trans murder monitoring project reported that https://transrespect.org/en/tmm-update-trans-day-of-remembrance-2019/ that, to that date, 331 trans and gender-diverse people had been killed in 2019 compared to 369 in 2018. A combined total of 700. We had identified 55.

The report went on to state that there had been a total of 3,314 reported cases in 74 countries worldwide between 1st of January 2008 and 30th of September 2019. We have the names or records of 347 of those lost souls. So, we have 2,967 martyrs not recorded here from our earliest records until the end of 2019. So, we have added that number to the overall total at the bottom of this report.


2020 CE

Fabíola Pereira Andrade, Brazil, aged 48. She was a transgender woman who was beaten to death in prison in Jequié, Bahia.

Paloma Salas Jiménez, Colombia, aged 33. She was a transgender woman who was found dead after authorities say she was found stabbed 20 times, her throat cut, and one of her eyes gouged out. Paloma’s body was found in the garbage in the city of Barranquilla after people called the police’s emergency line complaining about a smell in the area.

Unknown, France, aged 21. LGBTnation reported that a gay man from Morocco killed himself because he had been outed by a transwoman using her Instagram account to track gay men on gaydar, grindr etc. She reveals their details to homophobes in Morocco.

Patsy Andrea Delgado, Mexico, age unknown. She was a trans woman who was killed with a hammer and left under a bag of cement. Her car was stolen.

Valera, Russia, aged 46. He was a trans man who killed by residents of Chelyabinsk after they learned that he had hidden his actual gender from them for more than 30 years. "Inhuman screams” were reported. The mutilated body of the janitor was found in a hostel where he lived with his common-law wife and 11-year-old daughter. The media noted that the motive for the murder could also be the jealousy of a neighbour who believed that his wife was cheating on him.

Cameron Warwick, UK, aged 16. He was autistic and had come out as gay at school. He was bullied constantly and committed suicide as a result.

Dustin Parker, USA, aged 25. He was transgender man fatally shot in McAlester, Oklahoma, early on New Year’s Day. He was killed while working as a taxi cab driver. Hi employers announced that they were “… devastated at the loss of a member of our [working] family. Dustin was a steadfast friend, an amazing husband and father and generous to a fault. He loved fiercely, worked tirelessly and took on life with so much hope and enthusiasm that his presence brightened all of our lives.” Parker was a founding member of Oklahomans for Equality-McAlester Chapter: Southeastern Equality, a local LGBTQ organization.

Unknown, USA, aged 15. LGBTQ Nation reported the distressed and angry comments of a LGBTQ campaigner who had just attended the funeral of an unnamed gender non-specific child.

Kenneth “Kenny” Paterimos Jr., USA, aged 23. He was a bi-sexual man who was stabbed to death in Chicago. An unnamed 30-year-old assailant was arrested but subsequently released by police after claiming self-defence – he was twice the weight of Kenneth. A profile on Paterimos says he struggled with depression, “had a knack for fiesty one-liners,” “was deeply generous,” and had dreams of opening his own coffee bar and cafe.

Yampi Méndez Arocho, USA, aged 19. He was a transgender man who was killed in Moca, Puerto Rico. According to the media outlet El Nuevo Día, Arocho was shot hours after he was assaulted, and his mother contacted the police. The police and media then misgendered him after his death.

Kious Kelly, USA, aged 48. He was a nurse manager at Mount Sinai West hospital in Manhattan. He was the first nurse known to die during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that is ravaged New York City. Remembered as a kind and loving man, Kelly’s colleagues and family are condemning the hospital, alleging that he lacked proper protective equipment (PPE) despite working directly with nurses and patients exposed to the virus. Photos posted on social media showed nurses wearing black plastic trash bags to try to protect themselves.

Monika Diamond, USA, aged 34. She was a transgender woman and business owner from Dunn, North Carolina. She was shot several times in the back of an ambulance – in front of police and the medics who were trying to keep her alive.

Alexa Negrón Luciano, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was killed in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, several hours after photos of her being approached by police at the Toa Baja fast food restaurant began circulating on social media. A person at a Toa Baja filed a complaint against Luciano for entering the women's bathroom, according to police. After police arrived to investigate the incident and approached Luciano, photos of the police encounter started circulating on social media. Her body was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

Johanna Metzger, USA, age unknown. She was a transgender woman who was stabbed to death in Baltimore. Metzger’s mother told local news that her daughter was a college graduate who taught herself how to play multiple instruments.

Lexi “Ebony” Sutton, USA, aged 33. She was a transgender woman who was fatally stabbed in the neck in Harlem. She was reportedly sat on a park bench near Harlem River Park when she was approached by an unidentified assailant. They snatched her blonde wig off. An argument ensued, the suspect stabbed her in the neck and fled the scene on a red scooter. Lexi was then rushed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Harlem, but unfortunately, her injuries were too severe, and she tragically passed away.

Penélope Díaz Ramírez, USA (Puerto Rico) age unknown. She was a transgender woman murdered in Puerto Rico.

Layla Peláez, USA (Puerto Rico) age unknown. She was a transgender woman murdered in Puerto Rico. Her body was found in a burned-out car with Serena Ramos (see below). Her grandmother was able to identify her granddaughter’s car when she saw it on the local news.

Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos, USA (Puerto Rico) age unknown. She was a transgender woman murdered in Puerto Rico.

Courtney Brousseau, USA, aged 22. He was a Twitter employee but also a queer activist who co-founded Gay for Transit, an organization aimed at promoting safety and visibility for LGBTQ people on San Francisco public transportation. He also volunteered at the California YMCA Youth and Government program. He went for a walk during the Corvid 19 pandemic and tweeted; “I just ate a delicious burrito in Dolores park and for a brief moment everything felt okay.” Moments later, two men in their twenties got out of a nearby vehicle and fired 50 to 60 shots. Brousseau and another 17-year-old bystander both got caught in the crossfire. The 17-year-old sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Paramedics rushed Borousseau to the hospital where he died.

Helle Jae O’Regan, USA, aged 20. She was a transgender woman murdered when a 42-year-old man attacked the Diesel Barbershop in San Antonio, Texas where she worked.  The man said he wasn’t there for money and began asking the employees, “What have you done wrong? What have you done wrong? God sent me here to kill you because you have done something wrong! What have you done wrong?” The Police don’t think he targeted O’Regan for her gender identity but it seems a possibility.

Tony McDade, USA, aged 38. He was a transgender man, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Florida recently. Tallahassee police referred to McDade as a woman in several statements made after his killing.
The officer’s union, the Florida Police Benevolent Association, filed a motion with the local courts to keep the killer cop’s identity a secret, saying the officer was “the victim of an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.” A judge has now denied the motion.
Witnesses say that police shot McDade immediately after exiting their vehicle without shouting any warning at the 38-year-old, while police claim that he pointed a handgun at an officer before they even exited their vehicle and that the shooting followed “standard protocol.”

Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, USA, aged 27. She was a transgender member of New York City’s legendary ballroom family who died in solitary confinement in New York’s Rikers Island prison. Layleen had been in prison after being unable to pay a $500 bail related to a 2017 prostitution charge. She was placed in isolation for 20 days after allegedly assaulting another inmate and fighting against a corrections officer.
Despite having a history of schizophrenia and epilepsy (controlled by medication) and despite having had two seizures while in custody at Riker’s, on May 30, 2019, a prison doctor cleared her for placement in isolation. But while prison rules dictate that guards must check on inmates in solitary confinement once every 15 minutes, on the day she died, the guards didn’t.
Video footage shows a 45-minute gap between the time that guards checked on her at 1:42 p.m. and then did so again at 2:27 p.m. At 2:45 p.m., officers opened her door and began to call out her name, At 2:46 p.m., an officer laughs outside her cell. At 2:48 p.m., officers entered the cell, putting on gloves and carried in a defibrillator. At 2:53 p.m., an officer exited the cell and began gagging as if to hold back vomit. At 2:55 p.m., the medical staff arrived with a bodyboard to transport her body. She was declared dead at 3:45 p.m.

Dominique Rem’mie Fells, USA, aged 27. She was a transgender woman who was murdered in Philadelphia.  Investigators pulled Dominique’s body from the Schuylkill River. Her legs had been severed and her body stuffed into a suitcase. Law enforcement officials also report that the body showed evidence of stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head.
“She was a person who could light up a room even when she was being quiet,” Dominique’s father said. “The one thing that stood out about her is she did her own thing with confidence, which as a family we all embraced.”

Selena Reyes-Hernandez, USA, aged   . She was transgender. The high school student reportedly stormed out of her home after he found out.
While they lived near each other, there is no indication the two knew each other before meeting earlier that night. Chicago police say video surveillance cameras show the two arriving at Reyes-Hernandez’s home in the early morning hours and leaving approximately 20 minutes later.
Minutes later, Perez returned and shot Reyes-Hernandez in the head and back before fleeing. But later returned to shoot her dead body again multiple times as she laid on the floor.

Jayne Thompson, USA, aged …. She was transgender woman was shot and killed by a Colorado State Patrol trooper last but it took months until before it was disclosed that the officer had killed a woman. For weeks, the Colorado State Police and local media misgendered her and said a man had been shot.
According to details provided by the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, Thompson was reported lying motionless near a grocery store and unresponsive when passers-by offered assistance. When Trooper Jason Wade arrived on the scene, Thompson “began to act aggressively and brandished an approximately 10-inch knife” according to the police report. The trooper was not injured. The death has been ruled a homicide.
The sheriff’s office says the incident is being investigated, but the District Attorney has announced no charges would be filed already despite the ongoing investigation. Colorado State Patrol troopers are armed with non-lethal tasers, but it does not appear that Wade attempted to use his before killing Thompson.

Nina Pop, USA aged 28. Nina was a trans woman who was found stabbed to death in her Sikeston, Missouri apartment Police are investigating the incident and whether it constitutes a hate crime. While neither police nor the media have released any additional details about Pop’s death, her Facebook page says she attended high school in Sikeston and a 15-minute live video posted there shows that she attended a party in the early morning hours on the day of her death.
 
In the UK, June 2020, a lone, Islamic, terrorist, stabbed to death 3 Gay men. Three other people were injured. The incident took place in Forbury Gardens in Reading. The deceased were:

David Wails, UK, aged 49. David was a 49-year-old scientist. His parents said he was a “kind and much-loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life,” and were “broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way.” Wails’ employer described him as a “gentle, thoughtful man” who will be “much missed” by his co-workers. Johnson Matthey, a global chemicals company, said in a statement: “We are devastated by the death of our colleague Dr Dave Wails. Dave was a highly valued and experienced member of the Johnson Matthey (JM) family.

James Furlong, UK, aged 36. James was a teacher at The Holt School in Wokingham, where he served as head of history, government, and politics. His parents Gary and Janet described him as “beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun”. “He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for,” they said. “We are thankful for the memories he gave us all. We will never forget him, and he will live in our hearts forever.” In an online book of tributes, a loved one called James “a proud gay man” who “wanted equality for all”.

Joe Ritchie-Bennett, UK, aged 39. Joe originally hailed from Philadelphia in the United States but had resided in the UK for the past 15 years, working in Reading at a pharmaceutical company. His father, Robert Ritchie, called him “marvellous, loving and caring” and said he was able to bring people together “like a magnet”. BBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker, his close friend, described him as a “fantastic human being” who was “outrageously funny”.

Brayla Stone, USA, aged 17. She was a trans woman with a fondness for making her own original music, was found dead in Arkansas. In a volley of local media reports that slothfully misgendered her, Sherwood Police Department patrol officers responded to calls at 2:55pm about a vehicle parked discovered across a walking path in the Sherwood neighborhood, police said. Inside, officers found the body of Brayla. Confusion has since swelled in the patchwork of police statements and news reports that have deadnamed Stone, stoked further by those crowdfunding to memorialise her, claiming that her family did not support her transition and an allegation from an Instagram user boasting that they were paid to kill her.

Riah Milton, USA, aged 25. Riah was a trans-woman who was shot to death in Liberty Park, a public park in Liberty Township, Ohio. Police believe three young people lured her there to steal her car. Police have identified an 18-year-old man, 25-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl as suspects in her murder. One man accidentally shot himself during the slaying and was later treated for injuries — he has since been arrested
In a statement published on Facebook, the group TransOhio wrote: “Tonight, we are heartbroken to learn that another Black trans woman was murdered in Ohio. We are not sharing media reports at this time out of respect for Riah, who has consistently been misgendered and deadnamed by the media. Our hearts are with the Cincinnati transgender community and the greater gender-variant communities across Ohio. #BlackTransLivesMatter.” A GoFundMe campaign for Riah’s funeral costs, established by her sister, Ariel Mary Ann, has already raised over $11,500 over its original $3,500 goal.

Mack Bond, USA, aged 58. Mack was a veteran of the Memphis Fire Department who was shot to death in a park which is a gay cruising area. The killer and his girlfriend were arrested by Memphis Police. According to the police report, Wells admitted to the killing and said that it’s Bond’s fault for hitting on him in public. He said that Bond approached him and his girlfriend and hit on them. He said that he pulled out his gun and shot Bond multiple times. The Memphis Fire Department stated that they were “deeply saddened to hear of the sudden and tragic off-duty death of firefighter Mack C. Bond. Mack faithfully served as a member of this department for over twenty-one years and was a valued member of our MFD family. He will be greatly missed. Our sincere condolences are extended to his family.”

Tiffany Harris (Dior H Ova), USA, aged 32. Tiffany was a transgender woman who was stabbed to death in New York City. Police found her unconscious in the hallway of an apartment building in the Bronx when responding to a 911 call. She had been stabbed multiple times in the chest. Tiffany was taken to the hospital, where she died 45 minutes later.
The New York Daily News first reported on the murder and misgendered and deadnamed the victim. Gay City News said that the NYPD referred to her as an “unidentified female” but later referred to her with her deadname and as male, citing the on-going investigation.
Harris was later identified with help from the Princess Janae Place, a non-profit organization in the Bronx that helps transgender people facing homelessness.

Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, USA aged 33. Aja was a transgender woman who was murdered in Oregon as she attended a vigil for a man who had been killed several days earlier. She was one of 20 to 30 people who attended a vigil in Portland for murder victim Tyrell Penney. The vigil was held at a private residence.
According to police, there was a fight – a “large disturbance occurred involving multiple participants” – at the vigil and two people were stabbed, including Rhone-Spears. When Portland police showed up, they tried to take life-saving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
 
Michal Demski, Poland aged 30. Michal hanged himself in his family garden, unable to cope with the rising tide of homophobia in his home country of Poland. Devastated by his loss, his mother is refusing to remain silent. She spoke to the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza about the constant persecution that led to her son’s death, a product of the homophobic rhetoric proudly espoused by President Andrzej Duda.
“My son was no ideology. He was the most normal in the world. Much more normal than all of them,” she said. “Such people destroyed my son. Day by day and step by step.”
 
Ali Zabirov, Russia, aged 23. Ali had thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram under the name Egor Gromov. He was openly gay, with his sexuality drawing frequent attacks from online trolls. He was found murdered in a 46-year-old friend’s St Petersburg flat on. His body was lying face down on pillow, with signs of beatings on his body and bruising around the neck which indicated he had been strangled.
Police suspect the flat’s owner might have turned violent when Gromov came on to him, the Daily Star reported. The man claims Egor Gromov had come to visit him the day before to borrow some money, and decided to stay the night in the property.
 
On Ausust 8, 2020, Pink News reported that the number of trans people murdered in the USA, in 2020 just surpassed the total for last year. It had only been seven months. In the US last year, the National Center for Transgender Equality said in a blog post, 26 trans, non-binary gender non-conforming people were fatally killed. In just seven months, the figure has been surpassed in 2020, with 28 trans folk slain. To this point we had found reports of 25 people, so we have added 3 to the overall total.
 
Maria Paola Gaglione, Italy, aged 22. Maria was riding on a motorcycle with her trans-male fiancé, Ciro Migliore, towards their home in Acerra, a town in southern Italy, on September 11, when her brother appeared behind them. He began tailing the two, investigators said, and started to ram their vehicle with his own, causing them to tailspin and crash. Loved ones of Maria spoke of her brother as a dominant figure in her life who disapproved of her marrying a trans man, local media reported.
When investigators asked Antonio why he slammed into his sister and her fiancé’s motorcycle, he bluntly said: “I wanted to teach her a lesson, not kill her.” Authorities arriving at the scene said they found Michele pummelling the unconscious body of Migliore, who had a fractured arm and was covered in bruises.

Aerrion Burnett, USA, aged 37. She was a trans woman who was found shot and killed in Independence, Missouri – two days before her 38th birthday. Her death came just a few years after her best friend was also murdered. In further pain to the trans community, she was referred to by her former name and gender in several media reports. While the circumstances around Burnett’s death still remain unclear, it is being investigated as a hate crime.

Neulisa “Alexa” Luciano Ruiz, USA (Puerto Rico), aged unknown.  She was a trans woman who was murdered after people harassed her for using a McDonald’s restroom. In a video of the murder, posted online a voice can be heard saying “We are going to shoot you up.” Another says “Let’s spin the tires on this motherf-----.” Another says “You bet I am going to go and shoot him.” Then, the sound of a gun loading can be heard, followed by at least 10 shots.
Puerto Rican police announced on Tuesday that they had received tips that suggest four teenagers were involved in the crime. 

Penélope Díaz Ramírez, USA (Puerto Rico), aged 31. She was a transgender woman who was murdered at the Bayamon correctional complex.

Tonya McDade, USA, aged 38. -year-old trans man who was shot while exiting his car in the Leon Arms apartment complex by an officer of the Tallahassee Police Department, following a fatal stabbing on nearby Saxon Street.

Merci Mack Richey, USA, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was found shot to death with multiple gunshot wounds in a parking lot in the Stone Crest apartments in South Dallas. Police have charged a 20-year-old man with the murder and breaking probation for a past aggravated robbery.

Bree Nuk Black, USA, aged 27. She was a trans women who was shot and killed on a crowded street in Pompano Beach, Florida. No-one was willing to describe what happened.

Shakie Peters, USA, aged 32. She was a trans women who was found murdered on Opal Bennett Road near Amite, Louisiana. A person of interest from another parish is being investigated, the St. Helena Parish Sheriff's Office said, but no suspect names or motives had been released.

Summer Taylor, USA, aged 24. They were a gender non-binary person hit by a car during a Seattle Black Lives Matter protest on Interstate 5 in Seattle. They were livestreaming the protest. A small group of protesters had gathered on a section of Interstate 5 that had been blocked off by the authorities. It was one of many protests that have been organized in Seattle and across the country since the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May. The protesters had been on the highway for a little over an hour when a white Jaguar car drove southbound through a blockade and toward the protesters at a “high rate of speed,” striking Summer. The driver was arrested and charged.

Marilyn Cazares, USA, aged 22. She was a trans woman who was found dead in an abandoned building in Brawley, about a half-hour north of the Mexican border. Since her death, family and friends have spoken out about a young woman who lived her truth despite being bullied, ridiculed, and violated by members of her community. Her family said they believe her death was a hate crime. Brawley police are investigating Cazares' death as a homicide

Mia Green, USA, aged 29. She was trans woman who died after being shot in the neck. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a man was arrested on charges of murder, possession of an instrument of crime, obstructing justice, and tampering with evidence in relation to Green’s death. The two of them were arguing in his car, when he allegedly shot a gun three times that he had stored between the driver’s seat and centre console.

Felicia Harris, USA, aged 33-year. She was a trans interior designer found shot to death in an Augusta, Georgia park. Her friends were left in shock and mourning as news of her death broke. “Everybody’s going to remember Flycya. That laugh. The smile – the smiles. The talks. The arguments. The attitudes. Everybody is going to remember who Felycya Harris was. Nobody would ever forget who that is,” Ricola Collier, Harris’ friend, told WRDW. “I just want justice to be served for my friend,” Collier added.

Brian ‘Egypt’ Powers, USA, aged 43. He was a  trans man killed in Akron, Ohio. nearly two months after the murder.  of Brian Powers, aged 43, a Black trans man in Akron, Ohio. His body was discovered on the sidewalk of a church near the University of Akron. Brian was a cook for a catering company. He was killed by a single bullet that went through his thighs. Speaking to News 5 Cleveland, his sister, Vivian Powers-Smith, said: “He was very proud of who he was. Never ashamed of who he was and I think that’s a lot.” She praised the strength he found in his identity, saying: “For anybody of the gay or transgender community to have to step out on faith and say, ‘Okay this is who I am,’ and there’s a lot of people who don’t like that. But if that’s not what you agree with, then move on. Live your life. You don’t have to hurt somebody else because you don’t agree with their life.” Police currently have no leads

Queasha D Hardy, a 22-year old Black hairdresser fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Hardy was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hardy, a hairstylist, was extremely loved by her community. On Facebook, many, many loved ones of Hardy are sharing memories of their time together. One person posted a video of Hardy dancing spontaneously with friends. Another friend remembered Hardy doing her hair and the joy she felt at “looking fly for [her] baby shower.” Others describe her as loyal, loving, “always smiling,” “the life of all parties” and “truly one of a kind.”

Kee Sam, USA, aged 24. She was a transgender woman killed in Lafeyette, Louisiana. She was found unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound in a hotel room.  According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), she was rushed to hospital, but succumbed to her injuries the next day. The investigation into her death is ongoing, but a 16-year-old has reportedly been arrested in connection with the shooting.

Michelle ‘Michellyn’ Ramos Vargas, USA (Puerto Rico), aged 33. She was a transwoman who was shot to death in the town of San Germán Puerto Rico.  Her body was found on the side of a road. The San Juan Daily Star reported that she had been shot several times in the head. Police are investigating whether her killing may have been a hate crime, but they are not ruling out any possibility. Michelle worked as a bartender and was studying nursing. Trans rights activist Joanna Cifredo de Fellman also spoke out. “Her name is Michelle Ramos Vargas and she was my age,” she told the Star. “Her passion, like mine, was helping other people; that’s why she decided to study nursing.

Brooklyn Deshuna, USA, aged 20. She was a trans woman, killed as a result of a gunshot wound in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was a cosmetology student at Bossier Parish Community College who is remembered by friends as a “genuinely a good person”. “Brooklyn was just 20 years old, at the beginning of her life. She did not deserve to have that life taken from her,” said Tori Cooper of the Human Rights Campaign. She continued “Not one of the trans and gender non-conforming people who have been killed this year deserved to have their lives taken from them.”

Sara Blackwood, USA, aged 39. She was a transgender woman shot as she walked home from her shift at an Indianapolis Long John Silver’s. Friends speaking to Planet Trans described her as a shy trans woman who wasn’t on social media very much but loved anime. Blackwood’s family know little about her final moments, only that she was still alive when paramedics arrived at the scene but died during emergency surgery. Jimmy Johnson, a friend of Blackwood stated, “She was very sweet and a very good person,”. The pair had worked together for several years at a previous job and he recalled it took a while to get to know Blackwood, but that “once I got to know her, I really enjoyed her company.”

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Sherlyn Marjorie was a 35-year-old Latina transgender woman and drag performer who one friend remembered as “the best impersonator in Tijuana, my second Edith Marquez.” She was beloved by her local LGBTQ+ community in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she was killed on September 17, 2023. A suspect, Sherlyn’s former intimate partner, has been charged with her murder

Chyna Long was a 30-year-old Black transgender woman and dance choreographer who was shot and killed on October 8, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her life was honored by friends, family and the local LGBTQ+ community in Milwaukee at the Zao MKE Church. Anotonio Currin was arrested and charged with first-degree reckless homicide and with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in Chyna’s murder case.

Luis Ángel Díaz Castro, a trans man from Puerto Rico, studied at The Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo and worked at the Department of Education. He also loved Latin music. His family noted Hector Maysonet and Chema y JohnD as his favorite music artists. At just 22 years old, Luis Ángel was tragically murdered on August 12, 2023, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The person accused of killing Luis Ángel is in police custody.

YOKO was a talented nonbinary artist and DJ. YOKO loved their family and their friends, who remember YOKO as “an exceptional, joyful, absurdly talented, and extremely loving and gentle human.” YOKO’s work included modeling, tattooing, murals, publications, solo showings, curating art shows, and doing live works for different shows and events. YOKO was killed when they were struck and killed by a driver of an SUV on September 19, 2023. The driver fled the scene. Their death marks the at least 18th violent killing of a trans or gender non-conforming person this year.

Thomas ‘Tom-Tom’ Robertson, a 28-year-old Black gender non-conforming person, was working as a cook at a local IHOP restaurant in East Chicago, Indiana, having relocated there from Chicago, Illinois, where he was born and raised. Thomas frequently changed the color and style of his hair, posting photos online showcasing his creativity. On August 17, 2023, Thomas and a 25-year-old individual were victims of a fatal shooting in Calumet City, Indiana, marking the at least 17th violent killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person this year.

DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson - a 28-year-old Black transgender woman was a vibrant artist who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had moved to Los Angeles in order to transition. Those who knew her called her “a well-loved and cherished friend and member of the community.” DéVonnie was shot and killed on August 7, 2023, during an altercation with a security guard just one day after her birthday, according to news reports and social media.

Camdyn Rider, a 21-year-old white transgender man, was eight months pregnant at the time of his murder which occurred on July 21, 2023, outside his home in Winter Park, Florida. Camdyn had recently posted on Facebook about how excited he was to welcome a child into the world. According to news reports, Camdyn was killed by his partner, Riley Groover, during an argument. Groover then died by suicide. Sheriff's deputies investigating the murder revealed that Groover had a “history of violence,” and that prior domestic violence incidents had not been reported.

Jacob Williamson, an 18-year-old transgender man, worked at a local Waffle House and was beloved by coworkers and even had moved in with one of them about a month prior to his death, according to his coworker’s TikTok account. Jacob loved to sing and draw. Jacob was killed in Monroe, South Carolina, on June 30, 2023
Chanell Perez Ortiz, a 29-year-old Puerto Rican transgender woman, was a cosmetologist. She was interested in fashion, makeup and hair styles. She shared quotes from French designer Coco Chanel. According to PGH Lesbian, Channel “shared a lot of playful, fun content, and clearly had strong friendships with people who are grieving her deeply.” Channel was killed in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on June 25 , 2023.

Ashia Davis was a 34-year-old Black transgender woman from Detroit who was full of joy, devoted to her faith, and a loving dog owner to a Yorkie named Clyde. On June 2, 2023, the second day of Pride Month, Ashia was found dead in a Highland Park hotel room.. Allona Anderson, Ashia’s good friend who is also transgender, spoke to FOX2 News and said they had known each other since they were children. “And we loved each other. That was a good friend of mine."

Banko Brown was a 24-year-old Black trans man who is remembered as being “brilliant” and as someone who made “everybody laugh.” Julia Arroyo, the co-executive director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center where Brown was working as a community organizing intern, said Banko “made friends easily and connected deeply with others.” On April 27, 2023, he was killed by an armed security guard in San Francisco after an altercation with an armed security guard at a local Walgreens store.

Koko Da Doll was a 35-year-old Black transgender woman, a successful rapper who was working on new music, and starred in the barrier-breaking, award-winning Sundance Film Festival documentary, “Kokomo City.” Tragically, Koko was found shot to death near an Atlanta shopping plaza on April 18.

Ashley Burton was a 37-year-old Black transgender woman who was described as “a courageous fighter” by her cousin. Her brother Patrick praised her authenticity as a trans woman saying, “The way my sibling moved in life, it was…take it or leave it. ‘This is how I am.’ You can respect it or neglect it, but Ashley put it out there and let that person know. It’s not going to be a secret." Ashley was killed in Atlanta Georgia on April 11, 2023.

Tasiyah Woodland was a Black "high-spirited” transgender woman who was “protective of those she loved." On a GoFundMe page, Tasiyah's aunt, Lizzy Woodland, said "she made everyone around her know that they were loved." Tasiyah was tragically killed in St. Mary’s County, Maryland on March 24, 2023.

Chashay Henderson, the 31-year-old Black transgender woman is described as “a bubbly spirit with a down to earth, tell it like it is personality,” who was “as beautiful as can be, inside and out.” The GoFundMe also notes that Cashay is survived by her father, mother, sister, and niece, as well as other family and “many, many friends.” Chashay was shot in Milwaukee on February 26, 2023.

Maria Jose Rivera Rivera, a 22-year-old Latina transgender woman, was described by her immigration lawyer as “lively, funny, and dynamic” and “a joy to work with.” On January 21, 2023, Maria Jose was found fatally shot in Houston, one of two people found dead at an apartment complex in an apparent murder-suicide. Her death is at least the fifth violent killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2023.

Zachee Imanitwitaho’s, Black transgender woman was described as someone who was “well-loved by family, friends, and coworkers, and that she lived her life bravely and authentically.” She immigrated to the U.S. from Rwanda and was killed on February 3, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky in the parking lot of her workplace.

Unique Banks, a 21-year-old Latina trans woman, was killed in a mass shooting along with her mother, Alexsandra Olmo, on January 23, 2023, in Chicago. Unique’s father Omar Burgos said that his “heart is torn apart” and that he had hoped for her to live with him in Florida. Three other people, including two other trans women, were also attacked during the shooting, leaving them in critical condition.

KC Johnson's 27-year-old white transgender woman who was killed in Wilmington, North Carolina on January 14, 2023, after being declared missing on January 13.

Jasmine “Star” Mack’s was a 36-year-old Black transgender woman who was killed in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 2023.

O'Shae Sibley – 28 year old gay man was stabbed to death by a 17 year old for listening to Beyonce and voging at a gas station in NYC. The murderer was heard making homophobic slurs before killing O’Shae Sibley.