http://www.sfexaminer.com/transgender-activist-shot-killed-tenderloin-attorney-says/
An LGBT disc jockey was shot and killed near a Tenderloin strip club early Saturday morning in an attack that an attorney for the victim is calling a hate crime.
Anthony Torres, an activist, artist and performer who is known as Bubbles, was fatally shot at 3 a.m. outside the New Century strip club on Larkin and Myrtle streets, according to friends, neighbors and his attorney.
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As word of the killing spread Sunday, friends brought photographs of Torres to the scene of the homicide. The pictures show him riding a bicycle in high heels and beaming in a black and white dress.
Someone placed a sign that read “Rest in Power Bubbles” on the sidewalk public restroom across from the New Century where Torres is believed to have been shot. A passerby walked by the memorial Sunday evening and muttered “not Bubbles” in disbelief.
“This is a hate crime,” said attorney Jim Reilly, who has previously represented Torres. “For a transgender activist to be gunned down on [his] own street shouldn’t stand and won’t stand.”
The Tenderloin has historically been a safe place for gay and transgender residents of The City. The neighborhood birthed one of the first riots for transgender rights at Compton’s Cafeteria in 1966. A historic gay bar called the Gangway is also on the block where Torres was shot.
Though his attorney initially referred to Torres as a transgender woman, friend and local DJ Buckner Williams said Torres identified as a gay man “who enjoyed wearing women’s clothing and makeup.”
