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Title: Angie Zapata's friends, family to throw a party for the murdered transgender tee
Post by: Butterfly on August 06, 2010, 05:07:59 PM
Angie Zapata's friends, family to throw a party for the murdered transgender teen's 21st birthday
By Melanie Asmar
06 August, 2010


http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/08/angie_zapatas_friends_family_t.php (http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/08/angie_zapatas_friends_family_t.php)


Angie Zapata  would have turned 21 yesterday. She died in July 2008, a little more than two years shy of that milestone, at the hands of a man who claimed he "snapped" when he realized that Zapata, a striking Latina beauty, was biologically male.

Angie's friends and family didn't want her 21st birthday to go uncelebrated. So tomorrow, they're throwing her a birthday party at Chique nightclub, 940 Lincoln Street, that doubles as a fundraiser for the fledgling Angie Zapata Scholarship Fund.