I was wondering the internet and found this video. Wow, I was there when she gave this speech.
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A Greeley transgender woman was apparently murdered this month because a man she met on the Internet became angry when he discovered she was biologically male.
The Weld District Attorney charged Allen Ray Andrade, 32, of Thornton with second-degree murder and aggravated motor vehicle theft Wednesday after Thornton police arrested him on traffic warrants and Greeley police arrested him thereafter on the murder charge. He was picked up while he was in the dead woman's car.
The news came as an incredible relief for Angie Zapata's sister, Monica Zapata.
"I thought they were never going to find him, honestly, I was doubting the police. I was doubting everybody. I just thought he was going to be out there forever," Monica Zapata said in an interview with Fox 31. "But when they called me and they told me I was the first one they called, it lifted away from me — that knot from your throat, like it was not there anymore."
An arrest affidavits shows Andrade told officers he met Angie Zapata on the Internet and they got together in Greeley. When he discovered Zapata was biologically male, he beat her to death with a fire extinguisher.
Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata, was a transgender woman who lived under the name Angie.
http://pam/shouseblend.com - http://twitter/justiceforangie - Autumn Sandeen took a video at the April 14, 2009 Angie Zapata Family Vigil, asking people what motivated them to attend the event..."Why Did you come to the vigil?
Autumn Sandeen is a new media reporter (frontpage blogging Barista) for Pam's House Blend. She's tweeting (microblogging) the trial on twitter under the twitterID of JusticeForAngie - http://twitter.com/justiceforangie
Great job Mila Pavlin and Jayna L-Pavlin of Trans-Ponder.
www.Trans-Ponder.com
Gwen was murdered because she was transgendered. This is dedicated to her. RIP Gwen.
Wow!
This video breaks my heart.
The last comment when I found this says:
this is so sad. :( i just wanna cry when i see this......
Sixty years and one biracial president later, "GMA" gathered 19 black children, ranging in age from 5 to 9 years old, in Norfolk, Va.Thanks to The View for doing a piece on this and setting me out to find out more about this.
Some of our results differed vastly from those of the original experiment. For example, 88 percent of our children happily identified with the dark-skinned doll.
Forty-two percent of the children wanted to play with the black doll compared to 32 percent for the white doll.
"GMA" then moved on to that question about which doll is nice and which is not. Sixty years ago, 56 percent of the children chose the white doll. The majority of our kids chose black or both and 32 percent chose the white doll.
Sometimes the choice had nothing to do with race.
"The bad doll is on my right because that's just the way it looks at me. It kind of creeps me out with the beady eyes," said 9-year-old Chareese Hicks, a fourth-grade participant who picked the white doll as bad.
