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QuoteSignificant fact about cold cases: Western society's lethal hostility towards LGBT people means that victims in many cold cases involve members of our community. Another significant fact: the victims are often activists or community leaders.
Currently the headliner among gay-related cold cases is Robert Wone's murder in Washington D.C. Unsolved since 2006, it has just gotten a big new surge of public attention.
LGBT-related cold cases can be divided into two categories: those where one or more of us are victims, and those where one or more of us are perpetrators. Some police departments have knocked themselves out to solve murders of gay people, while others have been apathetic or callously inactive about investigating when we're the victims. In Los Angeles, last I heard, a lone LAPD detective was still grinding away at the unsolved 1994 murder of gay political figure Jon Simmons.