City officials and members of the LGBT community joined Muhlaysia Booker's family and friends Tuesday to honor a life "cut short by hatred.""There no doubt in my mind that we should not be here today," the Rev. Neil G. Cazares-Thomas, told an overflow crowd of hundreds at Dallas' Cathedral of Hope. "But we are." Several speakers at the memorial service focused on the challenges Booker faced as a transgender woman and the challenges faced by others in the LGBT community."She was a young woman whose life was cut short by hatred," said Stephanie Martin, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Congregation of Dallas. Continue reading...
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