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unhappycamper

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:38 AM Jun 2014

Transgender activist found dead in O.C. mourned as leader

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-family-and-friends-remember-transgender-activist-found-dead-in-oc-20140623-story.html



Transgender activist found dead in O.C. mourned as leader
Adolfo Flores
6.23.2014

As mourners dropped different colored flowers on top of a transgender woman’s coffin on Monday, her favorite song blared through a cellphone’s tiny speakers.

Mexican pop singer Gloria Trevi’s “Todos Me Miran” was Zoraida Reyes’ go-to song whenever she sang karaoke at home, her mother said. The single, translated as "Everyone Looks at Me," became a gay anthem for its lyrics about overcoming rejection.

“She’d stay up singing, I’d have to scream at her to go to bed,” Macrina Reyes said in Spanish. “Every time we got together we would sing.”

The 28-year-old’s body was found June 12 in a brushy area near a lot behind an Anaheim Dairy Queen in the 200 block of North State College Boulevard by a customer who had parked there after ordering food at the eatery.

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RIP Gloria.
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Transgender activist found dead in O.C. mourned as leader (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP
Actually, it's RIP Zoraida Reyes ga_girl Jun 2014 #1
Murdered and dumped in the bushes? So senseless... nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #2
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