SONG Mourns the Death of Ms. Imaje Devera/Mr. Jimmy McCollough
April 15th, 2009 at 8:28 am (Politics, SONG)
SONG mourns the murder of Mr. Jimmy McCollough (AKA Ms. Devera) on April 14, 2009. A known Drag Queen and Gender non-conforming LGBT man in the community in Fayetteville, NC, Mr. McCollough was presumably simply working the streets on the night he was murdered, trying to pay his bills. Signs point to his death as a hate crime. Like too many in our communities, he was a gender non-conforming person of color in the South, known to be a sex worker, and a presence in the community. SONG continues to be committed to working for a day when folks like Mr. McCollough are not victims of violence, and when lives and livelihoods such as his as seen as just as important and precious as any other life.
Message from transgender community leader Janice Covington, written on the morning of April 14:
“This morning, April 14, 2009, the murdered body of Image Devereux (Ms. Jimmy) was found on Joseph Street behind the old Club Spektrum in Fayetteville, N.C. She was a local Drag Queen who many of us knew as a friend. She will be missed but not forgotten. My prayers go out to her family.”
If you know of any local organizing based in Fayetteville, NC that SONG could reach out to about this case, and efforts to organize around it please email us at: Caitlin@southernersonnewground.org
(Information from Q Notes)
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we wear red every day | cripchick's weblog said,
April 15th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
[...] in my town and was slain yesterday, in what is looking like a hate crime. you can find out more here and here. didn’t know Jimmy (who identified as Imaje Devera on stage) and am not able to be [...]