The Fight For Justice Continues With the Murder Trial of Lateisha Green

Update: July 17th – A jury convicted Dwight DeLee of manslaughter in the first degree as a hate crime!!!! WooT!! Of course, the caveat is that it was manslaughter and NOT 1st degree murder. Witnesses had been intimidated against testifying (WTF) and Teisha’s brother had also been injured when this miscreant murdered her. So this [...]

July 13th, 2009 | Category: Duanna Johnson, Hate Crimes, Justice, Lateisha Green, Murder, Transgender Rights | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Matthew Shepard’s Mom Responds to Foxx’s Homophobia

Judy Shepard was interviewed by Rachel Maddow a few nights ago. In her response to North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx (who got my Award of Shame last week) Mrs. Shepard said Foxx trying to distance herself from her earlier claims of Matthew’s murder being a “hoax” was an argument of semantics not a renunciation of [...]

May 3rd, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, Duanna Johnson, Homophobia, Judy Shepard, Matthew Shepard, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Transphobia, Virginia Foxx | Comments are closed

Prop 8 & New Jersey 4 & Other Misdeeds: Where Race, Class & Gender Collide

Later on today the oral arguments will be heard in the California Supreme Court pro and con regarding the passage of Proposition 8. The judges will have 90-days to render a verdict. If the ruling strikes down the Proposition, the California Constitution will forever alter the definition of marriage as between a man and a [...]

March 5th, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, Duanna Johnson, Justice, New Jersey 4, NJ4, Patreese Johnson, Proposition 8, Rape, Renata Hill, Terrain Dandridge, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Venice Brown, Violence | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)