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A gay teenager has been found burned and pated on the island of Puerto Ri. The body of Je Steven Lopez Merdo was found on Saturday (November 14th) Cayey, a cy several away om his hometown of Caguas.

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OPENLY GAY RAPPER MURRED PUERTO RI AMID WAVE OF VLENCE

The prosecutor assigned to vtigate the killg of openly gay Puerto Rin rapper Kev Fret 2019 said this week she was stcted to stop her probe. * puerto rico gay murder *

San Juan, Puerto Ri — One of the few well-known openly gay rappers Puerto Ri has bee a victim of tensifyg vlence on the Fret, a 24-year-old mician and outspoken advote for the LGBT muny, was murred early Thursday morng Santurce, one of San Juan's bit and most nsely populated neighborhoods, acrdg to El Vocero, one the largt newspapers Puerto said a man was shot eight tim around 5:31 a.

The prosecutor assigned to vtigate the killg of gay Puerto Rin rapper Kev Fret 2019 said this week that she was stcted to stop her probe and was never given an explanatn.

Damián is the seventh known transgenr person to die by vlence Puerto Ri sce last Febary, acrdg to the Transgenr Law Jul Serrano, founr of the LGBTQ advocy group Puerto Ri Para Todas, said police aren’t dog enough to addrs “the wave of homophobic and transphobic vlence that hnts like never before. “[Now I see] young gay guys or young lbians lookg at me now like a role mol, like wow, if he did , and he don’t re what anybody else has to say, I n do .

PROSECUTOR SLAYG OF GAY PUERTO RIN RAPPER KEV FRET SAYS SHE WAS STCTED TO STOP VTIGATG

Fans are mourng the ath of Kev Fret, one of the few openly gay Puerto Rin rappers, who was shot multiple tim. The shootg is still beg vtigated as the island enunters a wave of vlence. * puerto rico gay murder *

The slayg of a gay teenager whose pated, partially burned body was found along a road Puerto Ri last week is unr vtigatn as a possible hate crime, a police official said Wednday.

FANS MOURN FATAL SHOOTG OF OPENLY GAY RAPPER KEV FRET PUERTO RI

Murr charg are filed the slayg of a gay teenager whose pated, burned body was found last week, while officials say they are weighg  whether to make a hate crime se. * puerto rico gay murder *

Lopez was wily known as a volunteer for anizatns advotg HIV preventn and gay rights, and activists are planng remembrance vigils for him ci cludg San Juan, New York and Chigo. A 2002 hate crime law Puerto Ri has not been applied to s volvg sexual orientatn or genr inty spe lls to e more aggrsively, said Pedro Jul Serrano, a Puerto Ri native who is a spokman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

MURR CHARGE FILED GAY TEEN SLAYG

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History of vlence agast gaysThe FBI is monorg the vtigatn, and Lymarie Llovet Ayala, a spokwoman for the U. Attorney's office San Juan, said Wednday that feral prosecutors are nsirg whether to take on the Ri has some history of vlence agast gays. In the 1980s, the island was terrorized by serial killer Angel Colon Maldonado, known as "The Angel of the Bachelors, " who was lked to the murrs of 27 homosexual people and is servg life the island also is known as a welg place for gays, particularly parison wh more socially nservative Caribbean islands where homosexuals often live hidg.

"I thk the kds of crim show the ugly si of homophobia, but 's a mory of people that are willg to be so vlent exprsg their prejudice, "Serrano said a prott agast homophobia was planned for Thursday outsi Puerto Ri's Capol. A gay teenager has been found burned and pated on the island of Puerto Ri. Police are reportedly lookg to the possibily his murr was motivated by homophobia, although a lol gay rights activist has acced them of suggtg he served his fate for the “liftyle” he led.

UPDATED: GAY TEENAGER MURRED PUERTO RI

Gay blog Towleroad translated mpaigner Pedro Jul Serrano’s remarks as: “It is nceivable that the vtigatg officer suggts that the victim served his fate, like a woman serv rape for wearg a short skirt. Gay groups are planng protts and acts of remembrance for the stunt, who was said to be studyg fashn. Acrdg to a CNN iReport by Christopher Pagan, Lopez Merdo was “well-known” and “very loved” Puerto Ri’s gay muny.

The man acced of murrg a gay Puerto Ri teenager has been found f to stand trial.

Gay rights activists the untry hope that Matos will be tried unr the Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd Jr Hate Crim Preventn Act, which offers feral protectn agast hate crim motivated by homophobia and transphobia. Puerto Ri ernor Luis Fortuño has drawn anger om gay mpaigners for not publicly mentng the se. Instead, he has reportedly suggted that the US terrory’s nstutn should be amend to bar gay upl om ever accsg equal marriage rights.

SPECT PUERTO RI GAY MURR WILL STAND TRIAL

Puerto Ri do not currently allow gay marriage or civil unns but a nstutnal amendment would prevent future admistratns grantg rights to gays. Schools after alg wh racism, homophobia and vlence Maryland. Openly gay Lat trap artist Kev Fret, who PAPER featured last sprg, died Thursday morng Puerto Ri.

When he released the vio for "Soy Asi" last April, close to 50k fans were followg him on Instagram, where he often spoke out agast homophobia the urbano acunt has been cleared of posts, but a vio posted to Facebook early December, Fret jok about not wantg to be gay — then remds viewers he'd never stop beg himself. "Discrimatn agast the LGBTQIA muny is also apparent the onle rponse to Kev Fret's ath: Victim-blamg, relig zealots (when, fact, Fret was que relig), and other homophobic attacks are rampant the ment sectns of news outlet posts.

PUERTO RI TO INVTIGATE MURR OF GAY MAN AS A HATE CRIME

"Someone even posted a Duck Hunter GIF, acrdg to María José, alludg to shootg "patos, " the word for ducks that's also ed a slur agast gay men. "When you're a high femme, and super effemate gay, people aren't gog to take you serly, and you have to be kd of on the offensive all the time, " she said. But then you kd of fet that you might be disturbg the homophob and straight folks around you.

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