Bogar (born 1984) is a Hungarian haiku poet, linguist and independent scholar living in Folkestone, UK. He continues to live in San Francisco, California.Īdam T. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Kathy Acker award in poetry and publishing. In 2009 he was presented with a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature. In 2002 a song poem of his was set to music by the pulitzer prize winning composer Williams Bolcom and performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. He is the author of over 65 books and chapbook of poetry and prose and edited and published the acclaimed Second Coming Magazaine/Press from 1972 through 1989. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in over 2000 literary magazines, journals, newspapers and anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He was friends with Charles Bukowski and Beat Poets Bob Kaufman and Jack Micheline, and appeared in the Kaufman documentary film, When I Die I Won't Stay Dead, that premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival. Winans is an award winning native San Francisco poet and writer. This article was amended on to clarify that Joshua Vallum was not the first American to be prosecuted for a transgender hate crime – although he was the first to be successfully prosecuted for a transgender hate crime under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a federal law that was introduced by Barack Obama in 2009.A.Last week, a Virginia state court angered LGBT activists by ruling that attacks motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation could not be prosecuted as hate crime under the state’s law. Vallum had previously been sentenced to life in prison in a state court for the same murder.īut federal prosecutors brought an additional lawsuit for hate crime because Mississippi lacks a statute protecting people against hate crimes based on their gender identity, the Department of Justice said.Īccording to a 2015 NCTE survey, nearly one in 10 US trans people said they had been physically attacked because of being transgender in the year prior to completing the survey. “Today’s sentencing reflects the importance of holding individuals accountable when they commit violent acts against transgender individuals,” said attorney general Jeff Sessions in a statement. This was the first case where a victim had been targeted because of gender identity that had been prosecuted under the US federal hate crime law, the Department of Justice said in a statement. He struck deadly blows to Williamson’s head with a hammer after she tried running away, prosecutors said. He decided to kill Williamson, fearing that he could face retribution from other gang members if word spread she was a transgender woman, prosecutors said.Īfter luring his former lover to his father’s home in Mississippi, Vallum shocked Williamson with a stun gun before stabbing her repeatedly with a pocket knife. Vallum, a member of the Latin Kings street gang, believed to the largest Hispanic gang in the United States, secretly dated Williamson during the summer of 2014, according to prosecutors. In 2009, Congress expanded a federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation among other factors. “It’s essential that biased crime against trans people be recognized as a serious national problem,” she said in a phone interview. Harper Jean Tobin, spokeswoman for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), a Washington DC advocacy group, said the murder was part of an “epidemic of violence against transgender people” in the United States. The 29-year-old man appeared in Gulfport, Mississippi before a federal judge who could have imposed a maximum sentence of life without parole.
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