LGBT+ people and allies will march on Saturday (1 August) to remember murdered 22-year-old homeless transgender woman Marilyn Monroe Cazares.
Police and firefighters in Brawley, California discovered Cazares’ body on 13 July in an abandoned building in the city. They were responding to a call about a couch fire in the area at around 8.30am.
Her family later said someone had stabbed her and set her on fire. Local law enforcement, the FBI and other agencies are continuing to investigate her death.
However her family and a host of LGBT+ organizations have joined forces to remember her with Saturday’s march and vigil. It comes at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement is putting a greater focus on the murder of black and Latinx trans