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In reply to the discussion: A thread for GLBT martyrs [View all]mercuryblues
(15,099 posts)47. 3 black women in SC, since April 2018
were found shot to death, in their cars on the side of the road. Their murders remain unsolved
Black transgender woman, Pebbles LaDime Dime Doe, has been killed in South Carolina, the second transgender woman killed in South Carolina in only two weeks, reported The Post and Courier.
24-year-old Doe was found on Sunday (August 4) slumped over the steering wheel of her car in Allendale County, along the South Carolina-Georgia border. She was identified by family and local LGBTQ advocacy group the Alliance for Full Acceptance.
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Her death comes only about two weeks after trans woman Denali Berries Stuckey was also murdered in South Carolina. Stuckey was found shot dead on the side of the road in North Charleston on July 20.
https://thegavoice.com/news/second-trans-woman-killed-in-south-carolina-in-two-weeks/
24-year-old Doe was found on Sunday (August 4) slumped over the steering wheel of her car in Allendale County, along the South Carolina-Georgia border. She was identified by family and local LGBTQ advocacy group the Alliance for Full Acceptance.
<snip>
Her death comes only about two weeks after trans woman Denali Berries Stuckey was also murdered in South Carolina. Stuckey was found shot dead on the side of the road in North Charleston on July 20.
https://thegavoice.com/news/second-trans-woman-killed-in-south-carolina-in-two-weeks/
From 2018
April has begun sadly with the murder of another transgender woman Sasha Wall, found shot to death in a car on a South Carolina road Sunday morning.
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2018/4/03/transgender-woman-shot-death-south-carolina
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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