![]() ![]() In 2002 a song poem of his was set to music by the pulitzer prize winning composer Williams Bolcom and performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. He is the author of over 65 books and chapbook of poetry and prose and edited and published the acclaimed Second Coming Magazaine/Press from 1972 through 1989. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in over 2000 literary magazines, journals, newspapers and anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He was friends with Charles Bukowski and Beat Poets Bob Kaufman and Jack Micheline, and appeared in the Kaufman documentary film, When I Die I Won't Stay Dead, that premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival. Winans is an award winning native San Francisco poet and writer. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.A. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. (Reporting by Sebastien Malo Editing by Ros Russell and Alisa Tang. Last week, a West Virginia state court angered LGBT activists by ruling that attacks motivated by the victim's sexual orientation could not be prosecuted as hate crime under the state's law. transgender people said they had been physically attacked because of being transgender in the year prior to completing the survey. Vallum had previously been sentenced to life in prison in a state court for the same murder.īut federal prosecutors brought an additional lawsuit for hate crime because Mississippi lacks a statute protecting people against hate crimes based on their gender identity, the Department of Justice said.Īccording to a 2015 NCTE survey, nearly one in 10 U.S. "Today's sentencing reflects the importance of holding individuals accountable when they commit violent acts against transgender individuals," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a statement. federal hate crime law, the Department of Justice said in a statement. This was the first case where a victim had been targeted because of gender identity that had been prosecuted under the U.S. He struck deadly blows to Williamson's head with a hammer after she tried running away, prosecutors said. He decided to kill Williamson fearing that he could face retribution from other gang members if word spread she was a transgender woman, prosecutors said.Īfter luring his former lover to his father's home in Mississippi, in the United States' Deep South, Vallum shocked Williamson with a stun gun before stabbing her repeatedly with a pocket knife. Vallum, a member of the Latin Kings street gang, believed to the largest Hispanic gang in the United States, secretly dated Williamson during the summer of 2014, according to prosecutors. Congress expanded a federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's sexual orientation among other factors. "It's essential that biased crime against trans people be recognized as a serious national problem," she said in a phone interview. advocacy group, said the murder was part of an "epidemic of violence against transgender people" in the United States. Harper Jean Tobin, spokeswoman for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), a Washington D.C. The 29-year-old man appeared in a Gulfport, Mississippi, courthouse before a federal judge who could have imposed a maximum sentence of life without parole. Joshua Vallum pleaded guilty last December to the 2015 murder of his former romantic partner, 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson because she was transgender. NEW YORK, May 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A gang member was sentenced to 49 years in prison on Monday for the murder of a transgender teen, in the first ever transgender hate crime prosecution in the United States. (corrects location of court in last paragraph) Gang member sentenced to 49 years for murder of a transgender teen who was his former romantic partner ![]()
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