NEWARK, Calif., -- The murder of Gwen Araujo in 2002 marked a turning point in the fight for transgender rights. The 17-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area was punched, beaten and eventually ...

In 2002, trans teenager Gwen Araujo went to a house party in the East Bay city of Newark. There, she was beaten, tortured, and strangled after a group of young men – two of whom she reportedly had sex ...

Around 20 years ago, somewhere in the middle of October 2002, I was talking with another trans activist friend of mine. At the time, I was heavily involved with the Remembering Our Dead project, and ...

Gwen Araujo was a transgender teenager from the SF Bay Area who was killed 20 years ago by men who claimed they were deceived by her sexual identity. NEWARK, Calif., (KGO) -- The murder of Gwen Araujo ...