Body of Florida LGBTQ Advocate Jorge Diaz-Johnston Found in Landfill
thegavoice.comThe body of Jorge Diaz-Johnston, an LGBTQ advocate and brother of a former Miami mayor, was found in a landfill in Jackson County, Florida.
Diaz-Johnston, 54 years old, went missing on January 3 in Tallahassee, CNN reported, before being found dead in a Jackson County landfill five days later, according to a statement from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
His body had been in trash collected that morning. His death is now being investigated as a homicide. Diaz-Johnston and his husband Don Johnson were one of six couples who filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2014, before it was federally legalized.
A Miami-Dade circuit judge ruled in the couples’ favor in 2015. Diaz-Johston was mourned by his husband on social media. “There are just no words for the loss of my beloved husband Jorge Isaias Diaz-Johnston,” he wrote. “I can’t stop crying as I try and write this.
