Matthew Shepard was beaten to death by two Wyoming men in 1998. The hate crime he endured has since inspired new laws and thought-provoking pieces of art.
"I know she passed standing up for something she believed in,” said Arielle Carleton of her mom, Lauri Carleton, who was killed by a man who tore down the rainbow flag hung outside her shop.
“Abortion and same-sex marriage are both immoral and are design[ed] to destroy humanity one by one,” Travis Ikeguchi, who allegedly killed Lauri Carleton, posted on social media.
Lauri Carleton was gunned down in front of her shop in Cedar Glen. The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, was later killed in a confrontation with law enforcement.
Three youths with "bad intentions" brutally murdered Julio Rivera in a case that forever changed how the N.Y.P.D. tackled crimes against the LGBTQ+ community.
O'Shae Sibley, a professional dancer in NYC, was voguing to a Beyoncé song at a gas station when he was fatally stabbed in the torso after an altercation.
There are a few notable cases where defendants in murder trials used the legal strategy of blaming the victim's sexual or gender identity — which is no longer legal in some states — to soften their sentences.
Dan White, who assassinated Harvey Milk, the first LGBTQ person elected San Francisco city supervisor, was convicted of manslaughter and not murder. People took to the streets to protest.
