This failure to protect and serve some of the most vulnerable people in our country today encourages this violence, Mara Keisling, director of National Center for Transgender Equality, told NBC News... Frank Pezzella, professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice,..…

Carrie Davis, chief programs and officer at New York's LGBT Community Center, said Rivera helped expand the gay rights movement into LGBTQ rights movement.. She moved to New York and at age 23 was part of the vanguard at Stonewall that led patrons to resist..…