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Fiance Of Slain Trans Woman Breaks Into Marine Base, Tries To Confront Suspect

The fiancé of a slain trans woman in the Philippines was apprehended after attempting to confront the Marine accused of murdering her.

[caption id="attachment_169106" align="alignleft" width="357"]Jennifer Laude Jennifer Laude, Joseph Scott Pemberton[/caption]

Officials said Marc Suselbeck hopped a fence into an off-limits area of a military base and pushed a guard while trying to get to PFC Joseph Scott Pemberton, who has been charged with murdering 26-year-old Filipina Jennifer Laude.

Officials removed Sueselbeck from the base before he could reach Pemberton, but he was stopped at the airport Sunday while trying to board a plane to his native Germany. Sueselbeck fainted during that encounter.

Suselbeck and Laude met online three years ago—he says he knew she was trans from the beginning and that they planned to marry next year.

Laude was found dead in a hotel room in Olongapo City on October 11, her head in the toilet and signs of strangulation on her body.

Defense attorneys are trying to get the charges reduced from murder to homicide, which would lessen Pemberton's prison sentence from life to a maximum of 20 years.


EQ is asking supporters to add their name to an open letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg.

The letter calls out inconsistencies in policy even among other high-risk groups:

The FDA currently has a maximum one-year ban in place on blood donations from men who have had sex with an HIV-positive woman or commercial sex workers. It also has a maximum one-year ban for women who have had sex with HIV-positive men.

Furthermore, the FDA requires blood donation organizations to screen prospective donors for risk factors related to HIV and other infectious diseases, but it does not ask whether prospective donors have engaged in specific high-risk practices, such as unprotected sex, sex with multiple partners, or sex with a partner whose HIV status was unknown to the prospective donor. This leads to deferrals that focus on donors’ identity rather than high-risk behavior.

This is discrimination against gay and bisexual men, pure and simple, and discrimination has no place in the Food and Drug Administration’s blood donor policies.


The girl's name is being kept confidential because she is a minor, but her father insists she had been taken advantage of by someone online. All the girls have returned home, and authorities are investigating their aborted defection.


We might start drinking heavily with a name like that.

According to the Dallas Observer:

Benham began swearing at an airline employee while she attempted to help him with his flight reservations. When she asked him if he had been drinking, he told her that he'd had "100 drinks"

The unidentified man whom Benham would later kick in the junk came to her defense. Benham called him a "San Frisco faggot" and then punched him in the right eye.

At one point, Benham screamed that he was upset about "queers" and "this faggot right here.” A group of good samaritans tackled Benham before he could seriously injure anyone.

Benham's been charged with public intoxication and simple assault, both misdemeanors with maximum $500 fines each. He will not face jail time.


The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has announced it will consider arguments in cases challenging Texas' and Louisiana's same-sex marriage bans during the week of January 5, 2015.

The cases are coming from opposite sides of the issue: District Judge Martin Feldman upheld Louisiana's ban in an August ruling—the first time that's happened in federal court since the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013—and in a separate case from February, a district court ruled that Texas' ban was unconstitutional.

The 5th Circuit, which also includes Mississippi, is considered a harder venue to get pro-equality rulings, with more Republican-appointed judges than Democrats.

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