For the first time in U.S. history, a murderer has been convicted of a bias-motivated crime against a transgender person. Allen Andrade was convicted yesterday of First Degree Murder and a “Bias-Motivated Crime” in the murder of Angie Zapata, a transgender teen from Greeley, Colorado. For once, a jury saw past the defense’s portrayal of a transgender person as a lesser being, a liar and a freak, and saw her simply for what she was: a human being.
Posts Tagged ‘In Memoriam’
Couldn’t Say It Better
I wasn’t sure that Nate Silver (of FiveThirtyEight.com) would remain on my daily blogroll after the election was decided. Sure, he had an almost uncanny knack for accurately predicting the outcome of elections, but I wasn’t sure that type of mind (in my thoughts, a mathematician’s mind) would make for an interesting blog after all the fuss died down. Well, I stopped by FiveThirtyEight.com today, and started to glance through his latest post. This paragraph stunned me…
Rest in Peace, Matthew
In honor of Matthew Shepard, I’d like to post a homily by Father Geoffrey Farrow, given this last Sunday at his church. Would that men like him were more common, and events like Matthew’s death far more rare.
