![]() ![]() The three authors are long-time advocates and attorneys who work directly with people impacted by incarceration. Queer (In)Justice examines the violence that LGBTQ people face regularly, from attacks on the street to institutionalized violence from police and prisons. This was the third killing of a black transgender woman in Memphis in 2008 alone, and her murder remains unsolved. Johnson filed a civil suit against the police department but, less than six months later, was found shot in the head a few blocks from her house. Her beating was caught on videotape, leading to the firing of two officers. At the jail, she was brutally beaten by a police officer. In 2008, Duanna Johnson, a black transgender woman, was arrested for a prostitution-related offense in Memphis. ![]() The homophobia and transphobia behind Balboa’s actions are far from arcane relics of the past, and violence against LGBTQ people continues to this day, both legally sanctioned and in the streets. Their offense? Being “dressed as women” and having sexual relations with each other. ![]() In 1513, en route to Panama, Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa ordered forty Quaraca men to be ripped apart by his hunting dogs. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011), 240 pages, $27.95, hardcover. ![]()
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