On October 6, 1998, 21-year-old college student
Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, pistol-whipped, then left for dead in the freezing night. He died six days later. This has been the most publicized incident although the major motive for this crime was apparently robbery. His killers received life in prison with the agreement of the Shepard family.
Born Teena Brandon
and raised as a girl, he was living as a man known as Brandon Teena in Falls City, Nebraska, when he was murdered at age 21. In December of 1993, two men who discovered his gender raped him. His attackers later shot and killed him after learning Brandon had reported the rape and was to help police in the investigation.
Pfc. Barry Winchell, 21, was
beaten to death by fellow servicemembers while sleeping in his cot on July 5, 1999 at Fort Campbell, Ky. His Army colleagues thought (correctly) that he was gay, so they killed him.
On August 7, 1995, Tyra Hunter died
after DC fire department emergency medical technicians called her epithets, backed away, and refused to render treatment on discovering that she was a transgendered woman.