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DESCRIPTION:On behalf of Gays Without Borders, transgender leader Veronika Fimbres and 
 I are organizing a noontime vigil this Thursday, December 13, to mark the 
 third anniversary of the assassination of gay Honduran democracy activist 
 Walter Trochez, pictured.\n\nThe one-hour vigil takes place in front the 
 Honduran consulate, located in the Flood Building on Market near the Powell 
 Street cable car turn-around.\n\nTrochez was active in many causes at the 
 time of his murder by right-wing militia forces. He fought for the human 
 rights of LGBT and HIV positive persons, organized peasant farmers and 
 defied the ruling junta after the Honduran coup of June 28, 2009.\n\nNearly 
 six months after the coup, Trochez on December 13, 2009, was gunned down on 
 a street in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Law enforcement agencies never 
 conducted a thorough investigation into his death and no one has been 
 charged or arrested in the case. \n\nAt our vigil on Thursday, we will 
 debut our 21-foot portable fiberglass flagpole and display the Honduran and 
 rainbow flags together. We need folks to join us and hold up posters of 
 Trochez. Our message to the Honduran consulate and government in 
 Tegucigalpa will be to demand justice for Trochez and all of the hundreds 
 of murdered LGBTI people and peasant and labor organizers.\n\nA recent 
 press release from an important human rights organization sheds lights on a 
 transgender woman's death and other harms being visited upon LGBTI persons 
 in Honduras:\n\nThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 
 condemns the murder of Barbarita, a 21-year-old trans woman, in San Pedro 
 Sula, Honduras. \n\nAccording to the information received, on August 2, 
 2012, in a remote area in Colonia San Martín, San Pedro Sula, the body of 
 Barbarita (registered at birth as Marlon Javier Jiménez Alemán), was 
 found with a series of bullet wounds to her face and head. Also, her hands 
 showed signs of being tied behind her back . . .\n\nThe Commission 
 continues to receive information on killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, 
 and other forms of violence and exclusion against lesbians, gays, and 
 trans, bisexual, and intersex persons. In addition, the Commission notes 
 that very frequently, problems exist in the investigation of those crimes, 
 which involve, in part, failures to open lines of investigation into 
 whether the crime was committed by reason of the victim's gender identity 
 or sexual orientation. The ineffectiveness of the state response fosters 
 high rates of impunity, which in turn lead to the chronic repetition of 
 such crimes, leaving the victims and their families defenseless.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/10/18727729.php
SUMMARY:Gay vigil at Honduran consulate over unsolved murder
LOCATION:Flood Building, Market and Powell Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/10/18727729.php
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