Reports of violence against queer and trans people in the last two months

In a two-month span, from June to July of this year, the following reported incidents have been documented:

June 18, Memphis, TN. Police security camera footage is obtained and released by the attorney for a transgender woman, Ms. Duanna Johnson. The video shows Memphis Police officers beating Duanna Johnson in the booking area of a local jail. The beating took place February after Ms. Johnson refused to respond when officers called her "faggot" and "he-she." One officer punched her with handcuffs wrapped around his knuckles, splitting her skull open. He then maced her.

· June 28, New York, NY. Gay man harassed on subway platform and beaten on Subway after boarding at Christopher Street.

· July 1, Memphis, TN. The body of transgender, African American woman, Ms. Whitaker, is found near a daycare center.

· July 2, Greeley CO. Police Sergeant Kell Hulsey and his son Dan Hulsey are accused of attacking a man they perceived to be gay, beating him bloody with a bottle. A witness to the attack said: "I heard him say 'I'm a Greeley cop and I'm a mean (expletive),' and then he hit him." Kell then allegedly fled the scene. He was put on administrative leave but as of July 9, no charges had been filed.

· July 7, Queens, NY. Father Braxton is beaten while protecting a group of LGBT youth living at Carmen's Place, a shelter for homeless youth that he coordinates.

· July 12, Central New York. A man who is a self-described neo-Nazi is arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of 65 a year-old gay man at midnight while he slept. The victim was able to flee his home before it was torched and completely destroyed by the assailant.

· July 17, Greeley, CO. The body of Angie Zapata, an 18 year-old transgender, Latina is found. She was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. 31 year-old suspect Allen Andrade was arrested on July 31 and charged with 1st degree murder as a hate crime.

· July 17, Dallas TX. Jimmy Lee Dean is beaten in a severe anti-gay assault by two men not far from his home. His injuries were so severe that he was in intensive care and could not be interviewed or identified until July 22. The suspect is not currently being charged with a hate crime.

· July 25, upstate NY. A man from out-of-state was visiting family and was severely beaten by two men who shouted anti-gay slurs while kicking him, breaking 10 bones in his face.

· July 25, St. Helens in the UK. Two men attack 18 year old Michael Causer in St. Helens as he was walking along a road. He died on August 2nd after a week in intensive care.

· July 27, Knoxville, TN. Two people killed and seven wounded in a shooting that took place at a Unitarian church. Shooting appears to be at least partially anti-gay motivated.

· July 29, Staten Island, NY. A large group of men verbally and physically assaulted, and then stabbed, a man they perceived to be gay.

· Ongoing, Cleveland, OH. Escalating harassment (for nearly 8 years) of a gay male couple by anti-gay neighbors.

· Ongoing, PA. Escalating, harassment (for nearly 20 years), of gay male couple in rural PA town, including gunfire, vandalism, stalking, acts of intimidation and indifference from local police.