NYC LGBT Community Condemns Anti-Transgender and Gay Murders in Puerto Rico

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NYC LGBT Community Condemns Anti-Transgender and Gay Murders in Puerto Rico
Opposing Views
15 June, 2010


http://www.opposingviews.com/i/nyc-lgbt-community-condemns-anti-transgender-and-gay-murders-in-puerto-rico


Since 2002, 25 gay and transgender people have been murdered in Puerto Rico—six of these murders occurred since last November.  Most of these crimes were not investigated by the local authorities as hate crimes and very few have received media coverage.