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A thread for GLBT martyrs [View all]
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To honor those GLBTs and their supporters who have been murdered at the altar of homophobia and to confront those who would deny the hate.
Please post your stories/memorials.
Clement Meric, 18 year old pro-gay college student, France, murdered by skinheads, June 2013.
http://americablog.com/2013/06/french-religious-right-gay-kid-wouldnt-be-dead-from-hate-crime-if-you-hadnt-legalized-gay-marriage.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/clement-meric-dead-skinhead-attack_n_3397221.html
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Mark Carson, shot in the face earlier this year about a block from the Stonewall Inn.
Smarmie Doofus
Aug 2013
#4
To the thousands (more?) of GLBT sent to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
Behind the Aegis
Aug 2013
#8
I'm one of those. I've been partially disabled since a hate crime almost 4 years ago
nightscanner59
Nov 2013
#19
Larry King, age 15 shot to death in school in Oxnard California, Feb 2008
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#27
Gift Makau, raped and strangled in a case of "corrective rape", South Africa
theHandpuppet
Aug 2014
#35