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	Gwen Araujo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gwen, who had originally been given the name Edward, expressed the desire to be female from an early age and just prior to her death she had started to live as female.
		Gwen's mother, who referred to her child as her little "Angel", has said publicly that she would like her daughter's case to be influential in changing the disciplinary actions for hate crimes resulting in death to include the death penalty.
		Gwen was remembered again during the "Remembering Our Dead" vigils that took place in several major cities to commemorate the deaths of 27 transgender people during the 12 month period that contained Gwen Araujo's own death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwen_Araujo (2564 words)

	Gwen Araujo
		Gwen lived in Newark, California, and was described by her mother as her little "Angel." Family members knew Gwen as a happy and energetic child who was always laughing and quite active.
		Gwen had expressed the desire to be female from an early age and just prior to her death she was experimenting with cross living.
		Gwen's mother has said publicly that she would like her child's case to be influential in changing the disciplinary actions for hate crimes resulting in death to include the death penalty.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gw/Gwen_Araujo.html (301 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		And that, a jury decided, was murder, despite defense claims Araujo provoked the attack by not telling her male companions - and occasional sex partners - that she was born biologically male.
		Araujo was born a boy named Edward but grew up to believe her true identity was female.
		Magidson and Merel had sexual encounters with Araujo on separate occasions and grew suspicious of her gender after comparing notes, according to a fourth member of the group, 22-year-old Jaron Nabors, who was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter in exchange for testifying.
	www.365gay.com /newscon05/09/091605araujo.htm (1134 words)

	glbtq >> discussion >> View topic - The Gwen Araujo Thread
		Gwen Araujo, a seventeen year-old male-to-female transgender person, was friends with her killers and had had sexual relations with at least one of them.
		Araujo lied to and deceived her killers, and this is bad, but not something she should have been killed for.
		Araujo did not deceive her killers with the intention of doing them harm, but with the intention of protecting herself and living a normal life, by calling in expert witnesses to attack the entire notion of "gay panic", and by not contributing to the defense's "wages of sin" argument which attempts to establish Ms.
	www.glbtq.com /discussion/viewtopic.php?t=243 (979 words)

	Gwen Araujo
		Gwen's mother, Sylvia Guerrero arranged for 17 monarch butterfly's to be released outside the sanctuary following her daughter's funeral.
		The butterflies development and transformations represent the transgender journey that Gwen was working to accomplish.
		The release of the butterflies symbolized Gwen's completion and freedom from both the bondage of living in a body that did not fit her sexual identity and the horrible circumstances of being persistently harassed and of course the brutal details of her final hours here on Earth.
	www.jaimesite.homestead.com /gwenpictures.html (81 words)

	GLAAD: community response to murder of gwen araujo
		Araujo, it has been reported in the media, was murdered at a party after it was discovered that she was born male.
		Gwen was a 17 year-old transgendered Latina from Newark, CA that was murdered on October 3rd after her biological sex was discovered at a local house party.
		Gwen Araujo was murdered on October 3rd after acquaintances at a party learned that she was a transgender woman, she was beaten, tied up and strangled.
	www.glaad.org /media/resource_kit_detail.php?id=3063 (3071 words)

	Comes Naturally #129 (November 15, 2002): R.I.P. Gwen Araujo
		Gwen Araujo was the 25th transgendered person to be murdered so far this year, according to the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition.
		Gwen's mother, Sylvia Guerrero, makes clear that she understood the difficulties her son faced transitioning into a young woman, and that she supported Gwen's decision to live more and more openly as female, at home and at school, even as she admits the difficulty she has had in adjusting to Gwen's emerging female identity..
		By making clear that Gwen Araujo's murder was not the act of a few crazy bigots, press reports have usefully directed attention on the widespread homophobic and transphobic attitudes that are the real roots of anti-transgender violence.
	www.sexuality.org /authors/steinberg/cn129.html (1854 words)

	Blogging for Justice: The Gwen Araujo Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On the night of October 3, 2002, in Newark, California, 17-year-old Gwen Araujo was beaten, bound, strangled, and left in a shallow grave after three men she met at a party discovered she was biologically male.
		Although the trials of Araujo's killers have garnered significant media attention during the past three years, the focus has often been on the sensationalism of her gender identity and on the trans-panic defense, rather than the murder and hate crime.
		Rather than focusing on Araujo's murder and the hate crimes committed against her, the mainstream media tended to dwell on the fact that Gwen was born "Eddie" and biologically male.
	www.techsoup.org /howto/yourstories/internet/page4276.cfm (1306 words)

	Gwen Araujo murder trial begins -- Queer Lesbian Gay News -- Gay.com
		Gay.com > News > Gwen Araujo murder trial begins -- Describing Gwen Araujo's death as an "execution," prosecutor Chris Lamiero opened the trial of three men charged with killing the transgender teen in October 2002, after they discovered she was biologically male.
		Describing Gwen Araujo's death as an "execution," prosecutor Chris Lamiero opened the trial of three men charged with killing the transgender teen in October 2002, after they discovered she was biologically male.
		Araujo's body was found nearly two weeks later, buried in a shallow grave about 150 miles away from Newark.
	www.gay.com /news/article.html?2004/04/14/1 (400 words)

	Family And City Remember Gwen Araujo, Murders of Transgenders Continue Unabated : LA IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On the first anniversary of her Gwen Araujo's murder, Sylvia Guerrero sat with approximately fifty family members in the front row of the Newark Memorial High School auditorium during a memorial to her daughter.
		Gwen's mother recalled the brutality of her death and the terrible pictures she was shown.
		Gwen Smith reminded the audience that at least 29 transgendered people have been murdered in the year since Araujo's death, 14 of them in the United States.
	la.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=87936 (842 words)

	Justice for Gwen Araujo
		It cannot be emphasized enough that Gwen Araujo was a 17 year old; she had her whole life ahead of her.
		ADA Lamiero then brought out a blown-up picture of Gwen mounted on poster-board, put it on the easel directly in front of the jury, and told them he would be referring to the victim as Gwen, that he would be referring to her as ‘she’ and ‘her’, because that is who she was.
		The ADA said he firmly believed that Magidson was already convinced that Gwen was “a guy” and that he was angry about it, and he was going to expose her, and wherever that lead to, he was ready.
	gwenaraujo.blogspot.com (6713 words)

	SOIN - Live Issues
		Araujo was kicked, beaten in the head, smashed with a shovel and strangled with a rope.
		Araujo, a 17 year old who was born male but lived as a woman, was killed last October after her biological identity was unmasked at a party at Merel's home in the San Francisco suburb of Newark.
		After one man strangled Newark transgender teen Gwen Araujo with a rope and a second one smacked her head with a shovel to make sure she was dead, they and two others buried her in a shallow Sierra grave and then stopped for breakfast at a McDonald's.
	www.usc.edu /schools/annenberg/asc/projects/soin/liveIssues/hatecrimes.html (3654 words)

	Bye Bye Lida, A Tribute to Eddie Gwen Araujo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Eddie Araujo showed up at a house party as a girl named "Lida," and was assaulted and killed after it was discovered he was a boy.
		Araujo identified himself as both a male and a female, sometimes also going by the name Gwen, said Milner.
		In a recent family photo, Araujo had carefully groomed eyebrows and makeup and his hair was highlighted and cut into a shoulder-length bob.
	www.blazepro.com /gwen (783 words)

	Two convicted in transgender killing - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		Araujo, 17, was born a boy named Edward but grew up to believe her true identity was female.
		Nabors testified at both trials that Araujo was savagely attacked after her biological identity was revealed when her underwear was pulled aside.
		Magidson testified that he beat and tied up Araujo, adding that while he couldn't remember large parts of the night he was sure he had not strangled her.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/9317235 (500 words)

	Horizons Foundation Five Facts Missing from Coverage of the Murder of Gwen Araujo
		Gwen Araujo was not deceiving people by telling them she was a woman.
		Gwen was in no way responsible for her murder.
		Gwen was a victim of a violent murder.
	www.horizonsfoundation.org /page/news/araujo_5keyfacts (446 words)

	ebar.com \| The Bay Area Reporter Online
		Sylvia Guerrero, Araujo's mother, did not attend the most recent hearing, but did tell a local news outlet that she was upset with the deal, despite understanding it from a legal standpoint.
		Araujo, 17, was born as a boy named Eddie but lived as a female in her East Bay hometown of Newark, since the age of 14.
		Nabors also testified throughout both trials that Cazares left the house party while Araujo was still alive in order to retrieve shovels to bury her body once she died, an implication that Cazares acted willingly and knowingly in Araujo's killing.
	www.ebar.com /news/article.php?sec=news&article=451 (1379 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		THE CASE AGAINST those accused of murdering transgender teenager Gwen Araujo ended in mistrial, leaving in limbo the fate of her alleged killers — and Gwen’s family.
		If Gwen had been able to escape that house on the night she was killed in just one of the three times she tried, we wouldn’t be left with only a handful of Gwen’s ashes in a pretty box.
		When Gwen Araujo was questioned by her tormentors as to whether she was a man or a woman, she was reported as saying three simple words: “Isn’t it obvious?” That should lie at the heart of this case.
	www.washblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=3390 (756 words)

	On the murder of transgender woman Gwen Araujo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Despite what some media outlets want you to believe, Gwen wasn't killed because she was a "boy wearing women's clothes." Gwen was killed because a group of young men felt threatened by her defiance of strict gender roles.
		Gwen was fortunate to have had a supportive family.
		From all accounts, Gwen's mother in particular supported her expression of her real identity, not the one imposed on her by society.
	www.nclrights.org /releases/gwen1202.htm (951 words)

	Gwen Araujo
		The four defendants in the murder of Gwen Araujo are being sentenced to prison on January 27, 2006.
		Nearly three years to the date of her murder, the family of Newark, CA teen Gwen Araujo finally got the justice they had been seeking when two of her murderers, Michael Magidson and Jose Merel, were convicted of second degree murder on September 12, 2005.
		After two months of testimony, the trial for the killing of a Newark teen, Gwen Araujo, has gone to a panel of four women and eight men, who must decide what happened on an October night in 2002, when the transgender 17-year-old was killed in a house full of so-called friends.It's a high-profile trial.
	www.transgenderlawcenter.org /gwen (652 words)

	spectator.net - R.I.P. Gwen Araujo - David Steinberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Gwen Araujo was the 25th transgendered person to be murdered so far this year.
		Profiles of Gwen portray her as lively and likable, rather than as one of those troubled teenagers bound to get into trouble because of the attitude they carry on their shoulders.
		Thus, rather than dismissing Gwen Araujo’s murder as the act of a few crazy bigots, press reports have focused attention on more widespread homophobic and transphobic attitudes that are the real roots of anti-transgender violence.
	www.spectator.net /1255/pages/1255_steinberg.html (1774 words)

	GLAAD: Urge Respectful, Accurate Coverage of Gwen Araujo
		Since the body of Latina transgender teen Gwen Araujo was discovered in mid-October, the amount of media reporting on her life, the murder investigation and subsequent arrests has reached a level unseen in hate crime coverage since the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998.
		The AP bureau's claim that they have a right to call Gwen by a name and pronoun she did not use is disrespectful to Gwen's memory and, notably, contradicts the name her family has placed on her grave.
		Coverage of Gwen's life and death reveals the complexities involved in representing transgender lives and identity in the media -- especially when the subject of the coverage is no longer living.
	glaad.org /action/alerts_detail.php?id=3110&... (659 words)

	Round Ups
		On Oct. 4, 2002, the 17-year-old Araujo was beaten and strangled to death at a house party in the small Silicon Valley town of Newark after it was learned that she was biologically male.
		Araujo's murder instantly became a lightning rod for the transgender community in California's Bay Area and across the nation.
		Araujo didn't get a chance to make as big a difference in the world alive as she has done now that she's gone.
	www.planetout.com /news/roundups/package.html?sernum=461 (299 words)

	In Memory of Gwen Araujo
		Gwen went to a house party introduced as "Lida," and passed as a beautiful girl.
		The family plans to bury Araujo in a dress and in makeup, and to call her Gwen on her tombstone.
		Gwen's "true gender" was female--it was her sex that was discovered, and many would even object to the idea that Gwen's "true" sex was male.
	www.transyouth.net /stories/gwen_araujo.html (744 words)

	USATODAY.com - Transgender teen's death spurs action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Gwen modeled her outfit, a girlfriend's denim miniskirt — it was her first time going out in a skirt — a fl shirt and flip-flops.
		Gwen took along a pair of jeans as a backup.
		At a vigil honoring Gwen in November, Gloria Allred, the prominent LA attorney who is representing the family, challenged the teen's killers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/2002-12-23-teen-death_x.htm (1371 words)

	Gwen Araujo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Gwen was then taken to the garage of the home where the party had occurred, EHandler: no quick summary.
		In warfare, a reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of the laws of war to punish an enemy for breaking the laws of war....
		Gwen was granted a posthumous name change name change quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gw/gwen_araujo.htm (2012 words)

	Southern Voice Online
		As part of their defense, the assailants said they believed Araujo to be female, had sexual contact with her, and then snapped when they found out she was biologically male.
		Gwen Smith, a trans activist and writer, said she still faces some fear living openly as a transgender woman, and she has had friends murdered simply because of their gender identity.
		Araujo "did not wear a sign on her forehead that said, ''''I am transgender, this is what my genitalia look like,''''" Steinberg argued.
	www.sovo.com /print.cfm?content_id=4935 (1397 words)

	Reflecting on the Life of Gwen Araujo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Gwen had the courage to be genuinely herself to her mother, family and friends and earned their true love.
		Gwen's example motivated me to learn more about transgendered youth in order to serve them in my medical profession, and later to collaborate in establishing saveTyouth to support the spiritual interests of our transgendered youth.
		I shed my tears for the loss of Gwen, for the grief her family showed that night and for the grief of all of us who have long suffered pain from uncaring individuals.
	home.comcast.net /~francie_p/araujo.html (467 words)

	Judge Declares Mistrial in Gwen Araujo Murder Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		After the jury deadlocked and was unable to reach a verdict, the judge declared a mistrial in the case of the transgender seventeen year old Gwen Araujo who was brutally murdered by four men, two of whom she had had sex with.
		“We are sickened that the jury in the Gwen Araujo murder case deadlocked and a mistrial was declared.
		Araujo and then learned she was a transgender person.
	homepage.mac.com /duanewilliams/iblog/C730209590/E528327575 (269 words)

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