Death of Denise King is a Call to Our Community
Filed by: Michael Emanuel Rajner
January 8, 2010 1:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/death_of_denise_king_is_a_call_to_our_community.php

During the last final hours of 2009, many of us reflected on what meaning the year and decade had for us, and the hopes and resolutions that waited in 2010. For Denise King, she was unable to revel in the moment and celebrate the end of a decade and welcome in the new.

In February 2008, the South Florida lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community was introduced to Denise King and her family when every news media outlet reported of the murder of her openly gay and gender nonconformist 17-year old son Simmie Williams, Jr. With the strong leadership of a young coalition known as the Transgender Equality Rights Initiatives (TERI), a vigil was organized and supported by an exhaustive list of organizations.