They are:
AS INNOCENT MARTYRS
220 Martyrs of Brazil
Anthony Avalos - 10, killed by his own
family for coming out of the closet
Hamoudi al-Mutairi – 14, was stabbed to
death on his way home in Baghdad by a gang of youths who believed that he was
gay. The attack was video recorded with
the attackers taunting him as he pleads for his life laying on the ground in a
pool or blood.
David Spencer - 32, killed in a
"Gay Panic" defense in Texas, September 2015
Blaze Bernstein - 19, violently stabbed
to death in a hate crime in California
Charlie Howard – 23, killed by a group
of teenage boys in 1984, was thrown from a bridge and drowned in Bangor Maine.
Vanessa Campos, 36, a
trans woman working as a prostitute, was shot dead on August 17 in Paris.
Naomi Hersi, 36,
was found stabbed to death at Heathrow Palace in London at 10:30 on Sunday 18 March 2018.
India -Following
a false rumor that transgender women were kidnapping children for sex
trafficking in Hyderabad, four transgender women were attacked by a mob on May
26, 2018. One of the women died.
Pakistan -A
transgender woman in Pakistan died after being set afire by four men when she
resisted sexual assault. The men had taken the woman to an isolated area in the
city of Sahiwal, in the eastern part of the nation last Thursday, The Times
of India reports. She fought back when they tried to assault her, and then
they set her on fire. She suffered burns on 80 percent of her body and died
while being transported to a hospital.
Sheila, a transgender
woman and sex worker, was shot in the streets of Tepic on March 14,
2018.
Yoselyn, a transgender
woman and sex worker, was found beheaded inside the room of a short stay motel
in Alamo, Veracruz on April 5, 2018. She was seen with a client who left before
the corpse was found.
Gretchen Alina, a
transgender woman and drag queen show performer was strangled to death in Monterrey
on April 10, 2018.
Yamileth Quintero, a transgender woman and beauty queen was shot in Culiacan
after an encounter with a man she had met online, May 24, 2018.
Nataly Briyth Sánchez, an undocumented sex worker originally from Honduras,
was murdered during a sexual encounter on June 19, 2018 in Tapachula. The client stabbed her to death
after discovering that she was transgender.
Katty, a transgender
woman and sex worker was shot by an unknown man at a nightclub in Yautepec de
Zaragoza on June 27, 2018.
Chanel, a 45 year-old
transexual sex worker, was shot in the streets of Toluca, July 18, 2018.
Alaska Contreras Ponce, 25, a transgender beauty queen and sex worker, was found dead with her
neck sliced by barbed wire after gruesome torture in Martinze de la Torre,
July 25, 2018.
Juan C. M., a 24 year old
transgender woman and local taxi driver, was found dead in Santa Maria Atzompa
on August 12, 2018. Apparently, she had a gunshot wound.
Samuel Santolli, a transgender woman and sex worker, was stabbed to
death by her lover, a Salvadorian gang member in Tapachula, May 26,
2018.
Diego Armando Sanchez Medina, 32, a transgender woman and hairdresser, was shot 28 times by armed men
in Guadalajara, August 27, 2018.
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, 42, was the first known case of deadly violence against the transgender
community in 2018. A local news outlet reports that she was found dead in her
home on Friday night in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Viccky Gutierrez, 33, She died after being stabbed and her apartment in Los Angeles was set
on fire while she and her dog were trapped inside, January 12, 2018.
Tonya Harvey, 35,
Harvey was shot to death shortly in Buffalo, New York.
Celine Walker, 36,
was shot to death in Jacksonville, Florida on February 4, 2018. Sources claim that Walker's body was found
with fatal gunshot wounds in an Extended Stay America hotel at about 8 p.m. and
pronounced dead at the scene. Additionally, Walker's family and friends
publicly shared their disgust toward Jacksonville Sheriff's Department and the
Florida Sun Times-Union misgendering her.
Phylicia Mitchell, 45, was shot in the chest
around 6 p.m.
outside her home on West 112th Street near Detroit
Avenue, in the Cleveland's Edgewater neighborhood
Zakaria Fry, 28,
was found dead in the town of Stanley, New Mexico, on February 19, 2018. She
went missing in New Mexico in mid-January, and her body was later found 40
miles outside of Albuquerque on February 19. Rancher Fidel Montoya 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 on
Tuesday, February 27, 2018.
Amia Tyrae Berryman, 28, suffered multiple fatal gunshot wounds outside of a motel in East
Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 26, 2018.
Sasha Wall, 29, fatally
shot on April 1 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Her body was found with
multiple gunshot wounds and slumped over her car's steering wheel on Sunday,
April 1, 2018.
Carla Patricia Flores-Pavon, 18, was strangled to death in her Dallas apartment May 9,
Nino Fortson, 36, a
transgender man fatally shot multiple times during an argument May 13 in Atlanta.
Antash'a English, 38, known to friends as Antash’a, died June 1, 2018 in Jacksonville,
Florida
Gigi Pierce, 28, a
transgender woman fatally shot May 22 evening in Portland, Oregon.
Cathalina Christina James, 24, was found shot dead in a hotel on the Southside of Jacksonville,
Florida on June 24, 2018.
Diamond Stephens was 39 years old Black transgender woman who was shot to death on June 18
in Meridian, Mississippi.
Keisha Wells,was 54,
died in a parking lot due to a gunshot wound to the abdomen on June 23 in
Cleveland.
Sasha Garden was
27-year-old transgender woman, was found dead in Orlando on July 19
Dejanay Stanton was 24,
was shot to death early in the morning of August 30 on the south side of
Chicago
Vontashia Bell was 18,
suffered a fatal gunshot wound August 30 in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shantee Tucker was 30, was shot to death September 5 on a Philadelphia
street by someone firing from inside a pickup truck.
London Moore was 20,
was found shot to death September 8 in North Port, Fl.
Nikki Enriquez was 28,
of Laredo, Texas, was found dead near Interstate 35 in south Texas September
15.suspect is Juan David Ortiz.
Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier age 31, of Chicago, Illinois, was found dead with stab wounds on October
3, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
AS HEROIC
MARTYR
Rudolf Brazda – 98, last known survivor of the "Men With
The Pink Triangles"
AS SORROWFUL MARTYR
Jamel Myles - 9, committed suicide
shortly after coming out the closet
AS SACRED SAINTS
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von
Steuben – (September
17, 1730 – November 28, 1794) Gay revolutionary war hero, was a Prussian
and later an American military officer. He served as Inspector General and a Major
General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is
credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them
the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States," the
book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
Tab Hunter - July 11, 1931 –
July 8, 2018, 86, Gay actor who appeared in over forty films, was a well-known
Hollywood star and heartthrob of the 1950s and 1960s, known for his blond,
clean-cut good.
Ramón Novarro - February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968. Mexican film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He never concealed his gayness, despite studio pressure for him to do so. Tragically. he was murdered by two male prostitutes.
John Vernon – 53, Died, November
1993. Oklahoma politician, political activist, restaurateur, the first gay
person nominated for a major office in America (Vice President for the
Libertarian Party ticket for 1976 who came out at the Convention publicly &
as a consequence lost the nomination by 8 votes.) He moved to Van Nuys &
was his party's nominee
for Lt. Governor& later for Congress in the San Fernando Valley beating the Republican candidate but losing narrowly to the
Democratic nominee. In addition he was his party's State Chairman prior to his
death from AIDS complication.
Hierocles - husband of Elagabalus.
Murdered with Elagabalus by the Praetorian Guard, 222 CE.
John Eberhardt - who built Cherry Grove’s dream palace
Belvedere Guest House for Men in 1956, as well as numerous houses in the
community, passed away this month, according to his son Craig. Born in 1922,
John was 92 years old. Our condolences go to Craig and Julien. John was be
sorely missed.
Al Parker - June 25, 1952 – August
17, 1992 was a gay American adult film star, producer and director. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 40
Joao Nery – (February
12, 1950 - October 26, 2018) Psychologist, author, and LGBTQ rights activist who was the first person
in Brazil to transmission from Female to Male, who’s sexual reassignment
surgery took place in 1977. He spent his
life devoted to teaching and advocating for LGTBQ rights and made a great impact on Brazilian society. He died of Cancer on at the age of 68 only
four days ago, on the last day to nominate new saints of Antinous.
ANTINOUS the mortal is dead. Antinous the God is born! 
As Dark as events in the world may become ... a powerful light is shining stronger for Gay, Bi, Lesbian and Transgender people everywhere in the world!
