story about the recent murder of a trannie teenager, from the long beach Press-Telegram.

Sylvia Guerrero said her son will be buried in makeup and women's clothes and "Gwen" will be engraved in his headstone. Araujo chose the name because he liked singer Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt.

"He was born this way. He always felt like a girl," she told a crowd of about 100 at a vigil Friday night. "Eddie was different, and people were mean to him.

"But he was my baby. He was my son. I loved him unconditionally,' she said. "When you see someone like Eddie, smile at him."

it's another sad story about another trannie who got killed because someone freaked out because she was trans.

but this bit about her mother makes me happy, in a sniffly sort of way. yay for gwen's mom. how sad that she's getting this chance to be quoted in papers all over the world.