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Sylvia Guerrero, Mother of slain teen Gwen Araujo, addresses LGBT youth suicide

Started by Shana A, October 05, 2010, 08:56:26 AM

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October 05, 2010, 08:56:26 AM
Sylvia Guerrero, Mother of slain teen Gwen Araujo, addresses LGBT youth suicide
Monday, October 4, 2010
By Staff Report

http://gltnewsnow.com/2010/10/04/sylvia-guerrero-mother-of-slain-teen-gwen-araujo-addresses-lgbt-youth-suicide/

San Francisco – Today, on the eighth anniversary of her daughter's murder, Sylvia Guerrero, mother of slain transgender teenager Gwen Araujo, released the following open letter addressing suicide and violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth:

Dear friends of the Transgender Law Center ,

It is with a heavy heart that I write to you today. It has been eight years since my beautiful daughter Gwen Araujo was brutally killed because she was transgender. Gwen was the light of my life. She was taken from us at the young age of seventeen; she was a victim of a culture where people react with violence when faced with difference. It is this same culture that led to the suicides of at least six lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people in the last week.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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