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Young and out: anything but safe.
Sakia Gunn was trying to get home. She was 15, hanging out on the piers, laughing with the other kids, queer and colored, their teenage arms embellished with rainbow-colored bracelets. But the way home for queer kids is often littered with hateful words and other hazards, and so it was for Sakia in May of 2003. At a bus stop, a man stabbed her and fled. The girl bled to death in her friend's arms.
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