TW: This episode contains descriptions of violence and discrimination against the LGBT community and may be triggering for some listeners.

Case # 1: On the night of May 11, 2003, Sakia Gunn was returning from a night out in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, with her friends. But a volatile encounter with two angry men at a bus stop in downtown Newark that night would turn fatal for Sakia Gunn, who was just 15 years old.

Case #2: In 2019, a Washington, D.C. woman named Kerrice Lewis would be the target of a brutal murder. Like Sakia, she too was a proud lesbian and the victim of a cruel crime.

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Sources:

Sakia Gunn:

https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/queer-newark/murder-of-sakia-gunn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sakia_Gunn

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/03/05/newark-man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-lesbian-in-2003/027da8e3-e4f4-4d1d-aeb3-061b0fb083b7/

Kerrice Lewis:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kerrice-lewislesbian-murdered-burned-alivesay-her_b_5a5040d0e4b0ee59d41c0ac5

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/02/15/kerrice-lewis-murder-details/

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/08/29/3rd-arrest-made-murder-kerrice-lewis/

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