March 2007 the World Changed…and Rainbow Memorial came to BE!

Ryan is alive in well in the hearts and minds of so many… and has inspired love and the National Rainbow Memorial. I’m am so very grateful to your son for living his life for he was, so many young Gay kids can’t be who they are because of fear ..Your brave and courage’s son Ryan stood up to hate and fought FOR ALL THE “GAY” LGBT  PEOPLE WHO CAN’T AND WAS KILLED BECAUSE IT …He is the reason I have dedicated my live to Honoring Him and all the Brave and Courage’s LGBT people who are still Fighting hate on the Front Lines..

One day the world will get see the National Rainbow Memorial of Love … and Honor all of our HEROES! Because of Ryan Keith Skipper …a true Gay American Hero!

Thank you with all my heart, for me allowing me to be a part of your family. I am truly sorry that Ryan had to give his life so that others may live…

Love Always

Rainbow Scott

PS… The letter below came today its crazy, like what happened when were in the Capital building in Tallahassee on Ryan’s birthday, As you would say God works in his way please note what the author name his email… “I LOVE WHAT YOU’RE DOING” Ryan inspired LOVE …

Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 12:53 PM

I came across the Chris Salvatore PSA the other night and went straight to your site and donated $35.00 for adoptee Ryan Skipper. I have been the victim of bashing (stabbed in the head with an icepick) but I was lucky VERY VERY LUCKY!. After reading Ryan’s story I was crying most of the evening as this brought me back to a very public and close to home murder, Matthew Shepherd. My partner went to the same school as he did in Fort Collins, Colorado before he transferred to Cheyenne. I realize that it still happens I just did not realize how OFTEN it’s still done. In any event CHEERS MATE on spreading the word and your support of our community!

With that said I was wondering if you have any plans to set up a booth at the Denver Pride Fest this year? We are one of the top 5 in the U.S. for attendance, last year we broke records with 250,000 people attending!! IF you do I would be SO VERY HONORED to volunteer any of my time for you and this amazing cause that has become really close to my heart~

Michael M.

Rainbow Memorial Heroes Harvey Milk, Ryan Skipper, Mathew Shepard

Transgender Woman Shot & Dragged In Arkansas March 9 th

 

FORREST CITY, Ark. (KTHV) — Police say the crime scene was brutal on Highway 334 in St. Francis County. Deputies say the evidence left behind gives them a better idea of what happened to 25-year-old Marcal Tye.

Sheriff Bobby May says, “It appeared to be that he did have a head wound and also that he had been drug by a car.”

Tye was a transgender person, born male, but living as a woman. May explains, “The victim was well known in this area as a “cross dresser.” A witness heard two gunshots in the area

Link to News Video Marcal Tye

Gay Man Beaten to Death in New Jersey

On the morning of Feb. 27, Scott Patronick, 47, of Phillipsburg, N.J., was found severely beaten and taken to a local hospital where he died shortly after. Mr. Patronick was walking to his home after leaving a local Phillipsburg pub he frequented. The two men, Joshua Dalrymple, 27, and Nicholas Yerian, 24, live within blocks of both the pub and Patronicks home

 Michael Joseph Bumbaca began dating Scott Patronick about four months ago, and they quickly fell in love.

Bumbaca, 20, of Easton, said he worried about his partner’s safety and asserts Patronick was killed because he was gay.

“It was a hate crime,” Bumbaca said of his partner’s murder

Louisiana man charged with hate crime, attempted murder of gay man

Shreveport man is accused of attempted murder and the commission of a hate crime in an attack earlier this week on a gay man at a local bar.

Police arrested William Payne, 31, who, according to witnesses, struck the victim, John Skaggs, 52, with the blunt end of a pool cue, causing serious facial injury to his eye socket and jawbone area.

The attack early Wednesday morning left Skaggs unconscious. He faces reconstructive surgery to repair damage caused by a broken bone that holds his eye socket.

Here is link the attacker photo and full story