1. Hoop Dreams Dashed
15-year old aspiring basketball player, Sakia Gunn, was an Aggressive (AG): a homosexual butch woman of colour who dresses in masculine clothes but doesn’t identify as transgender or lesbian. On May 11, 2003, she and her friends stood at a Newark bus stop. Two men began making sexual propositions. When the girls refused, one man jumped out of the car and began choking a girl. During an effort to stop this, Gunn was stabbed, and killed. It happened near an unstaffed police booth. Curiously, except for some people of colour, or AGs, her case couldn’t move the media or activists as much as Sheppard or Teena had. The few activists who cared fought with leading media houses for the coverage of her death, followed by more protests and questions. Today, the police booth near which she died remains staffed 24×7, as promised by then Newark mayor Sharpe James.
This is not an exhaustive list of the hate crimes that have happened. History has seen many gruesome murders of members of the LGBTIQ community in the hands of twisted people who have made religion, society, culture, tradition, normativity, fear, panic and many other lame excuses to get away. The cursed murders remind us every day of what our very own people might face in the future, if we do not take a stand to ensure an immediate change. The experiences of murdered and the bereft friends, family or lovers have been commemorated in books or films, and while the historic hate crimes have brought on some changes in the US, and consequently other parts of the world, as their laws and society have started to give recognition to the rights of and freedom for LGBTIQ members to live and love, it is essential that such hate crimes are stopped immediately.
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