Thank you for writing this! Lauri's murder, as you can imagine, has shaken queer communities. I read the first emerging news reports Friday night with a sense of amplifying fear, but not of shock.

As I scanned the first breaking news, I think from the Los Angeles Times, I said to myself, "Here we go again. I wonder who's next?"

I published a story Monday before the killer had been publicly identified before he social media accounts had been reported on.

He was radicalized, by all the usual suspects, with a hateful mixture of mainstream religious and political rhetoric.

He cited some fringe groups, but mostly he retweeted and cited "respectable" or at least popular thought leaders. He was radicalized by politicians and religious leaders in the mainstream of American thought.

And then he went out and killed Lauri. He did this only a very short time after O'Shae Sibley was shot to death in Brooklyn for voguing, while people shouted homophobic slurs at him.

Violence against queer people is rising everywhere. A little more than a week ago, a gay couple were attacked and knifed in London, by a stranger while they were leaving a well-known queer pub. Just before I read your article, I saw that another gay couple have just been brutally attacked in the UK, again bye strangers, at random.

Random street violence against LGBTQ people in the United States has skyrocketed, rising every year since 2016.

And now Lauri.

I'm so sorry for her loss, and it hits me perhaps a bit harder knowing that you knew her.

Again, thanks for taking a stand. It's so important right now!