Comments on: Murder of Transgender Woman Goes Unmarked in Media

By: Hate-Crimes Against Transgender People Grow but Community Response Deepens : glaadBLOG.org

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:07:31 +0000

[...] GLAAD also reached out to the Kentucky Fairness Alliance to correct inaccurate coverage of Nakhia Williams’ death when initial reports used her birth name and male pronouns, and GLAAD later issued a Call to Action. However, no other outlets have covered Jaylynn’s death, and only one other publication, the Louisville Eccentric Observer, has covered Nakhia’s story. [...]

By: Guest Post: Growing After Bias : glaadBLOG.org

Guest Post: Growing After Bias : glaadBLOG.org — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:06:47 +0000

[...] in the US during 2008. I can vividly recall pressuring media in Kentucky to cover the murder of Nakhia Williams, whose story went unreported for over a month. I can recall chasing down reporters across the [...]

By: UPDATE: KRXQ Responds to GLAAD’s Call to Action : glaadBLOG.org

UPDATE: KRXQ Responds to GLAAD’s Call to Action : glaadBLOG.org — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:43:28 +0000

[...] 20, 2008: Nakhia Williams, 29, (Louisville, KY) who died 10 days after she was shot and beaten by a group of people outside [...]

By: kwelsh

kwelsh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:46:19 +0000

Hey. I just came to this site for the first time and read your blog. I want you and anyone who doesn’t know, 2 weeks ago (Oct. 1st) I wrote my first column for LEO (it will run every other week), the subject of which was about the coverage of Nakhia Williams’ death. I didn’t know her; a friend of mine told me about all this. I thought you all might like to know this, might bring some sort of hope. FYI, my column is called “Yep, I’m Gay”; it’s about being gay/queer in louisville/issues of queers in louisville.