New Yorkers came together on Saturday, March 8 to call for the preservation of equal rights among the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities after the brutal killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man. The March for Justice for Sam began in Washington Park late morning before proceeding to
New Yorkers came together on Saturday, March 8 to call for the preservation of equal rights among the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities after the brutal killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man.
The March for Justice for Sam began in Washington Park late morning before proceeding to the state capital. Participants aimed to call on New York legislators to protect their rights.
In February 2025, Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota, was killed after being tortured for over a month. Nordquist had been tortured between December 2024 and February 2025 before being killed, according to a police news release on February 14, 2025.
Police subsequently arrested five people, aged 19 to 38, who were charged with second-degree murder. On February 20, two more suspects, a 29-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, were charged with the same offence.
Jon Moore, a marcher, said, “Trans people fought for queer rights for the past century and they’re being erased from like the Stonewall website, government websites; their evidence is being erased from public life, and that can’t happen. We need to show physically that we are present to support the trans community; that they exist, and they deserve to be validated.”
